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How to use gentlewoman in a sentence

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She looked confused, a true gentleman, or gentlewoman in my case would never look a servant in the eye.
An adolescent girl being prepared for her role as a gentlewoman, Elizabeth would have been provided with a well-furnished room and fine bed.
Caroline died at Matta House on 10 July 1874, to be remembered as a clever, courageous, kind and courteous gentlewoman.
The gentlewoman of the period is acknowledged to be active in the household and estate management, public affairs and even government.
His wife was an even-tempered gentlewoman from a respectable British family.
She is a Protestant gentlewoman and a Fenian, more renowned for her high society literary salon than her Republican poetry.
She had never met a Norman gentleman or gentlewoman, only traders on market or fair days.
Though charming and pleasant, she was too ill-tempered to be a perfect gentlewoman.
As subsequent events make clear, a well-dressed gentlewoman, walking the winter roads of outer London, is a sight that sticks in observers' minds.
A mere gentlewoman would be the wife or daughter of one of the gentry.
The spirit she brought to the ship surprised him, for a gentlewoman.
When she was informed of his identity, she countered that she was a gentlewoman of some birth herself, and introduced herself as Mlle. d' Aubigny, dite La Maupin.
The central characters are a Prussian officer, Major Tellheim, and a young gentlewoman from Thuringia, Minna.
The oarsman's passengers are a 29-year-old gentlewoman, Margaret Roper, and her maid, who carries a basket.
At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking.
In time The Tatler began to investigate manners and society, establishing its principles of ideal behaviour, its concepts of a perfect gentleman and gentlewoman, and its standards of good taste.
She leaves, and the doctor and gentlewoman marvel at her descent into madness.
Now am I prouder of this poverty, which I know is mine own, than a waiting gentlewoman is of a frizzled groatsworth of hair, that never grew on her head.
If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ.
Mean while, if you are unprovided of a Lodging, I dare undertake, you shall be welcome to this Gentlewoman.
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But there was that about her which proclaimed her unmistakably the gentlewoman, and this was good to know.
It seems 'tis not so asy any way, now-a-days, to make a gentlewoman, Mrs. Rooney.
Laughing so shrilly that all the market-place could hear her, the weird old gentlewoman took her departure.
The inutility of her best efforts, however, palsied the poor old gentlewoman.
Worst of all, when the actual duties are comprised in such petty details as now vexed the brooding soul of the old gentlewoman.
Her manners are unobjectionable, but not those of a gentlewoman.
The old gentlewoman stole behind Phoebe, and peeped from the passageway into the shop, to note how she would manage her undertaking.
Yet it is not well for a woman and a gentlewoman to dwell alone.
That a Spanish gentlewoman should have shown herself so bold!
How shall a gentleman go about a sorry figure, more than a gentlewoman?
She received us with the courtesy and easy manners of a gentlewoman.
It may be said of her that she was at all points a gentlewoman.
The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house.
You may not be aware, sir, that in receiving my niece under her roof her Ladyship was receiving a gentlewoman by birth as well as by education.
This set the old gentlewoman a-laughing at me, as you may be sure it would.
The vibrations of the Judge's voice had reached the old gentlewoman in the parlor, where she sat, with face averted, waiting on her brother's slumber.
She wanted a few pounds of flour, and offered the money, which the decayed gentlewoman silently rejected, and gave the poor soul better measure than if she had taken it.
In the case of our old gentlewoman, after the excitement of new effort had subsided, the despondency of her whole life threatened, ever and anon, to return.
Poor child,' says my good old nurse, 'you may soon be such a gentlewoman as that, for she is a person of ill fame, and has had two or three bastards.
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