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Gentlemen in sentence

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These gentlemen inspectors fail to understand a fundamental point: to disarm a thuggish, murderous regime you need strict enforcement.
Cricket first came to India with decorous English gentlemen.
Moving his feet deliberately, Karenin, with his usual air of weariness and dignity, bowed to those gentlemen who were talking about him, and his eyes searched through the doorway for the Countess.
'Sorry, gentlemen!' he said, running out on to the porch.
'Where there are hawks, there is sure to be game.''Well then, gentlemen,' said Levin with a somewhat gloomy expression, pulling up his boots and examining his percussion caps, 'you see that sedge?'
Washed and clean they betook themselves to a half-barn that had been swept out and where the coachman had made up beds for the gentlemen.
I thought you gentlemen were asleep, but then I heard you chatting.
'Good-bye, gentlemen!
Venez vite!'[Gentlemen, come quickly.]
But why do such gentlemen come?' he went on, indicating the venomous gentleman who had spoken at the Provincial table.
There three gentlemen were arguing about the latest political news.
The opinion of the owner of Piolaine, with his reasonable ideas, was that these gentlemen were sometimes rather immoderate in their exaggerated love of money.
The bosses were always bothering him about the damned planking question; he feared every hour the appearance of the engineer Négrel, followed by Dansaert, shouting, discussing, ordering everything to be done over again, and he remarked that his putter's timbering gave greater satisfaction to these gentlemen, in spite of their air of never being pleased with anything, and their repeated assertions that the Company would one day or another take radical measures.
"And just talk to those gentlemen about your father's affair.
"Bah! you have no courage; let these gentlemen speak."
Maheu was still the speaker, and he explained that their mates had sent them to ask if these gentlemen had anything new to say.
He said to himself that there would be time then to send out telegrams, and to obtain the military occupation of the pits, if such was the desire of those gentlemen.
The lines at first danced before him, but he understood at last that these gentlemen desired a skirmish; certainly they did not order him to make things worse, but they allowed it to be seen that disturbances would hasten the conclusion of the strike by provoking energetic repression.
Vandame would now belong to Montsou; this was the hoped-for compensation, the stroke of fortune which would bring him back to favour with the gentlemen on the directorate.
He was told, however, from other quarters that during their stay these gentlemen sat permanently, displaying feverish activity, and absorbed in transactions of which no one about them uttered a word.
Some said they had seen him lying back in a carriage, with three other gentlemen, on the Marchiennes road; others affirmed that he was in England for a few days.
These gentlemen did not at all like moving the horses.
They would return to the pit when these gentlemen were good enough to put things plainly.
His wife now kept the Estaminet du Progrés, thanks to the support of all those gentlemen, who had been so good to her.
His story has, all the same, been very bad for us, for he'll never get his pension; one of those gentlemen told me that it would be immoral to give him one."
"Is Jeanlin working?""Yes, those gentlemen found something for him to do at the top.
"Perhaps these gentlemen will grasp a few words of it!"
I don't imagine you're worried that these gentlemen will stave in walls that shells from your frigate couldn't breach?"
But Captain Nemo didn't want these gallant gentlemen wasting their time and energy, so he ended the hunt by diving beneath the waters.
As there were not enough stable-boys to unharness all the carriages, the gentlemen turned up their sleeves and set about it themselves.
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