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Gentlemen in sentence

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'Those gentlemen,' said a banker's wife, 'ought really to offer an affront to the little upstart, born in the gutter.''He has a wicked temper and he is wearing a sabre,' replied her companion; 'he would be quite treacherous enough to slash them across the face.'
Seeing his air of haste, these gentlemen supposed that the Bishop had sent for him and allowed him to pass.
I am sorry to keep the gentlemen of the Chapter waiting.'
These gentlemen, yielding in spite of themselves to Julien's imperious glance, surrendered it to him.
'Go, Sir, and inform the Dean and the gentlemen of the Chapter.'Presently M. Chelan, followed by the two oldest of the cures, entered by an immense door, magnificently carved, which Julien had not noticed.
He was nearer to the King than many other gentlemen, whose coats were so covered with gold lace that, to use Julien's expression, one could not see the cloth.
'You are one of the most distinguished gentlemen in the province,' Madame de Renal hastily added; 'if the King were free and could do justice to birth, you would doubtless be figuring in the House of Peers,' and so forth.
These two gentlemen formed with M. Maslon a triumvirate which for some years past had tyrannised the town.
Among the country gentlemen of Verrieres and the neighbourhood, skilfully classified in the lists compiled by the collecting Brethren, according to the amount of their offerings, the name of M. de Renal had more than once been seen figuring upon the lowest line.
The crier was shouting: 'Three hundred francs, gentlemen!''Three hundred francs!
That, gentlemen, is one hundred and sixty francs.
He felt that he could not possibly summon up courage to ask for a cup of coffee from one of those gentlemen with the proud gaze who were marking the score at billiards.
'On Thursdays, at five o'clock, in summer, the young gentlemen from the Seminary come past the cafe here.'
The Bishop had ordered four decorators from Paris by mail coach, but these gentlemen could not do everything themselves, and so far from encouraging the awkward efforts of their Bisontine colleagues they increased their awkwardness by laughing at it.
Would there be these insolent gentlemen today if your Bonaparte had not created barons and counts?
These gentlemen enjoyed incomes of from six to eight thousand livres; four of them swore by the _Quotidienne_, and three by the _Gazette de France_.
This great event had rekindled the zeal of these gentlemen; the least thing might have offended them before, now they were no longer offended by anything.
These gentlemen sat upon a large blue sofa.
Four grave young men who stood round him made grimaces at this; these gentlemen do not care for the flippant style.
He left, and the other gentlemen took their leave immediately, laughing at him as they went.
'These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine with M. de La Mole; and I can see why,' he added a moment later, 'they are not ashamed to be indecent.'
The gentlemen made allusions to spicy anecdotes of which Julien and his second, the Lieutenant of the 96th, were entirely ignorant.
The gentlemen indulged in a number of pleasantries; the cure, according to them, was the son of an Archbishop.
Julien's cab was waiting, but he found these gentlemen's conversation infinitely more amusing than that of the worthy Lieutenant of the 96th.
He made friends with some young Russian gentlemen who initiated him.
If they did not bore me, these gentlemen would be quite charming.
And it will be one of those pretty gentlemen with moustaches who will seize me.''The wretches!' exclaimed Julien, half aloud.
'They are all the same perfect gentlemen, ready to set off for Palestine,' she said to her cousin.
It was nothing more, really, than the fear of meeting something unexpected, the fear of being brought up short in the presence of the unexpected ...'Still, gentlemen, still the fear of ridicule, a monster which, unfortunately, died in 1816.''There can be no more ridicule,' M. de La Mole used to say, 'in a country where there are two Parties.'
'And so, gentlemen,' she told Julien's enemies, 'you will be haunted by fear all your lives, and afterwards people will say of you:'"It was not a wolf, it was only a shadow."'
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