She looked confused, a true gentleman, or gentlewoman in my case would never look a servant in the eye. |
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An adolescent girl being prepared for her role as a gentlewoman, Elizabeth would have been provided with a well-furnished room and fine bed. |
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Caroline died at Matta House on 10 July 1874, to be remembered as a clever, courageous, kind and courteous gentlewoman. |
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The gentlewoman of the period is acknowledged to be active in the household and estate management, public affairs and even government. |
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His wife was an even-tempered gentlewoman from a respectable British family. |
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She is a Protestant gentlewoman and a Fenian, more renowned for her high society literary salon than her Republican poetry. |
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She had never met a Norman gentleman or gentlewoman, only traders on market or fair days. |
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Though charming and pleasant, she was too ill-tempered to be a perfect gentlewoman. |
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As subsequent events make clear, a well-dressed gentlewoman, walking the winter roads of outer London, is a sight that sticks in observers' minds. |
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A mere gentlewoman would be the wife or daughter of one of the gentry. |
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The spirit she brought to the ship surprised him, for a gentlewoman. |
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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. |
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The central characters are a Prussian officer, Major Tellheim, and a young gentlewoman from Thuringia, Minna. |
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The oarsman's passengers are a 29-year-old gentlewoman, Margaret Roper, and her maid, who carries a basket. |
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At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking. |
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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. |
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She leaves, and the doctor and gentlewoman marvel at her descent into madness. |
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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. |
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If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. |
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Mean while, if you are unprovided of a Lodging, I dare undertake, you shall be welcome to this Gentlewoman. |
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A letter begun to a Gentlewoman of some account, which was left of by means of the aduise of a friend of his, who said she was foresped. |
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