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Gentleman in sentence

1701 examples of Gentleman in a sentence

The gentleman smiled and laid a hand on his shoulder.
The gentleman was a tailor.
In the Cemetery of Pere-Lachaise a gentleman who seemed highly obliging, and even more Liberal in his speech, offered to guide Julien to the tomb of Marshal Ney, from which a wise administration has withheld the honour of an epitaph.
'Two,' replied Julien, dismayed at seeing so great a gentleman descend to these details.
This young gentleman was going out riding, and was somewhat embarrassed, for his manners were perfect.
'I am independent, myself,' he was saying to a gentleman wearing three decorations, whom he was apparently quizzing.
'Well, Sir!'M. de La Mole said to him one day, 'and so you are the natural son of a rich gentleman of the Franche-Comte, my intimate friend!'
The Academician, delighted to find a virgin ear, related at full length to Julien how, on the 30th of April, 1574, the handsomest young man of his age, Boniface de La Mole, and Annibal de Coconasso, a Piedmontese gentleman, his friend, had been beheaded on the Place de Greve.
'But nothing ought to surprise me that is done by this academic gentleman.'
'And so this little gentleman will understand, and once for all, that he has not and never will have any power over me.'
This gentleman,' he said, pointing to Julien, 'is a young Levite, devoted to our sacred cause, who will have no difficulty in repeating, thanks to his astonishing memory, our most trivial words.
Julien felt that it would have been more natural to call him the gentleman with the waistcoats.
Each of them will have by his side, not a glib little cockney ready to hoist the striped cockade if another 1815 should arrive, but an honest peasant, simple and open like Cathelineau; our gentleman will have trained him, it should be his foster-brother, if possible.
He searched for them; they were really almost as fantastic a rigmarole as those of the young Russian gentleman.
MIRABEAUJulien found the Marquis furious: for the first time in his life, perhaps, this gentleman was guilty of bad taste; he heaped on Julien all the insults that came to his lips.
Twice this month already, in the street over the way, I've seen her with a different gentleman.
"The gentleman's asking if a joiner called Lanz, lives here."
Then the usher of the court stepped forward to him and, in order to calm him down and raise his spirits, said, "The gentleman here's only asking what it is you're waiting for.
A young woman, probably summoned by the loudness of K.'s voice, entered and asked, "What is it the gentleman wants?"
"I think," said the man, who was elegantly dressed and whose appearance was made especially impressive with a grey waistcoat that had two long, sharply tailored points, "the gentleman is feeling unwell because of the atmosphere here, so the best thing, and what he would most prefer, would be not to take him to the sick room but get him out of the offices altogether."
The gentleman is only unwell here, and not in general."
The young woman smiled too, but lightly tapped the man's arm with the tips of her fingers as if he had allowed himself too much fun with K."So what do you think, then?" said the man, still laughing, "I really do want to lead the gentleman out of here."
"This gentleman - may I introduce you?" - (the man gave his permission with a wave of the hand) - "so, this gentleman's job is to give out information.
"That's how it is," said the man, mocking her, "but I don't understand why it is that you're explaining all our intimate facts to the gentleman, or rather why it is that you're pressing them on him, as I'm sure he's not all interested.
"Franz," said Willem, turning to the other policeman, "didn't I tell you that the gentleman didn't say he wanted us to be punished?
Like I said, they would not let me through to see him at the bank because he was negotiating with some gentleman just then.
He would have liked to have been of some help to the chief clerk himself, as the chief clerk was a gentleman, good and honest, but he did not know what it was he could do and merely hoped there would be some influential gentlemen who would take his side.
You say he's ill?" and strode towards the gentleman in a way that seemed almost threatening, as if he were the illness himself.
"They've opened the door for you, now," said the gentleman, pointing at the door of the lawyer.
In the light of the candle held up by K.'s uncle an elderly gentleman could be seen sitting beside a small table.
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