He was one of nature's gentlemen and was a hard-working thoughtful neighbour who was always there to lend a hand in times of trouble. |
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For a moment I toyed with presenting myself as a wanton temptress with a dozen regular gentlemen callers and a bedside drawer full of Mates. |
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These gentlemen want to sell us fruit, custard and jelly but they have no water. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, the guard is passing through the train, please have your tickets and railcards ready for inspection. |
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In this way we therefore pray you, gentlemen, to pass such a law which releases and affranchises the Land Company from paying the Stamp duties. |
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White-haired gentlemen haunt grand old cafes from days gone by, sipping coffee under dusty chandeliers. |
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Ladies were asked to wear red dress or romantic ball gowns and gentlemen were asked to wear black or white tie. |
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Before she began whoring herself to the gentlemen of the area, she came here for a special blend of medicine. |
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These kindly gentlemen sometimes have other children waiting to be graded and, understandably, wish to see auspicious outcomes. |
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Nineteenth-century British society distinguished clearly between aristocrats, gentlemen, and common workingmen. |
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Women still found it desirable to behave in a ladylike manner and men strove to be gentlemen. |
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Nothing too frightening happened, except for the fact that he was relieved of fifty euro by two large gentlemen. |
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Even if I had not been able to spot Gerald in the throng of gentlemen, his languid grace on the ballroom floor revealed his identity. |
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The Australians never really cottoned on to the idea that sport was a way in which gentlemen amused themselves. |
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We had everything from bleached surfer dudes to Tongan gentlemen wearing the traditional lava lava. |
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It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers. |
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I rest my case, ladies and gentlemen, and leave the discovery of further evidence as an exercise for the reader. |
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Some European institutions, like the British Museum, were originally very restrictive, requiring references and allowing only gentlemen to visit. |
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Both gentlemen believe the anthropic principle strongly suggests an ultimate purpose to the universe. |
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A class of gentlemen farmers was emerging in Chile, some of whom had made their fortunes as a result of Chile's rich mineral deposits. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to show you the greatest kitchen appliance ever made. |
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Dressed in livery, they were a common accoutrement of ladies and gentlemen of rank, but also accompanied sea captains and colonial officials. |
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Anyway, if I have understood things aright, these two gentlemen seem to have noticed that books for kids seem to do pretty well these days. |
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They used to say soccer is a gentleman's game played by ruffians and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen. |
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Unfortunately, the audience stopped just shy of eliciting an encore from these gentlemen, which is a shame. |
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, has got to be the most crushing lowlight of the festival. |
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The courtiers and attendants were left to socialize amongst themselves, and most of the gentlemen found a lady or two to chat amiably with. |
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Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants. |
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The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels. |
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One of these gentlemen just happens to be the madwoman's father, a charming chap who seems unfazed by most things in this day and age. |
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I've had 5 gentlemen complain about the service that you appear to be maladministering today and I've not even had lunch yet. |
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He appealed to the backbench country gentlemen, whose prejudices he shared. |
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Trains would stop along the way at small stations, for the ladies and gentlemen on board to disembark and take tea. |
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They were consummate musicians and masters of their instruments, and the listener is in very good hands with these gentlemen. |
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He noticed she was a carrying a book or two and decided to do the gentlemen thing. |
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In seconding the proposal, Senator Jim Higgins said he had known both gentlemen for many years. |
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But after that, full health is restored and young gentlemen are ready for a luncheon of a dozen lamb chops and a battered pudding. |
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It consisted of the landed gentlemen of NSW who assumed they would constitute the government when the colony acquired self-government. |
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Both gentlemen above also raise another issue that merits airing in today's column. |
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I found these two gentlemen with their icons in semi-darkness at the west end of the Minster, largely ignored. |
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Occasionally a couple of gentlemen have appealed for old, obsolete or broken but mendable woodworking tools. |
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Mature gentlemen should cultivate some sensibility and awareness of the aesthetics of these things. |
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At first stools, and later chairs and settees, were provided for the gentlemen. |
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The three obviously mature gentlemen successfully vanquish a group of unruly young toughs with head butts. |
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The gentlemen will be green with envy, and wildly curious to know where I have found you from. |
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Two gentlemen, hunting some years ago in Rappahannock County, Virginia, came across a bevy of quails. |
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Be warned though, after 8pm the trendoids come out and it's all heels please ladies and smart shoes and long pants gentlemen. |
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So tepid arguments between mumbling, incoherent, misinformed gentlemen speckle the news programmes. |
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These gentlemen certainly developed our tripartite system of government, but it was hardly an easy task or a harmonious process. |
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He told me that he thought his uncle was one of the world's last gentlemen, in the true sense of a man of gentle behaviour and manners. |
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As moneylenders, goldsmiths conducted regular business with aristocrats, and gentlemen, and, increasingly, the agents of the Crown. |
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He was probably a private tutor who taught the sons of gentlemen the virtues proper to the ruling class. |
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Only black or grey morning dress with the top hat or service dress is acceptable for gentlemen. |
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Whether you're ambushed, mortared at your base camp or on patrol, that, ladies and gentlemen, is combat. |
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Denis was one of nature's true gentlemen, quiet and sincere and a wonderful family man. |
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And only two skinflints, or gentlemen of an extremely strong constitution, have so far refused to cough up. |
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In these streets he met Anitus, the king of the country, and brained him with his club, which was the fashion among gentlemen in those days. |
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Under his plan, you don't have a prayer of getting a flu shot, ladies and gentlemen. |
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By chance I happened to bump into the two gentlemen in one of our local establishments. |
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He half-heartedly nodded his greetings at several gentlemen who'd yelled their hellos to him from across the room, but he was too driven to stop. |
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Two, at least, were having a merry time carrying on with their gentlemen in waiting, until they got caught. |
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You know, those guys weren't outdoorsmen, they were gentlemen who would never have gotten past Labrador but for the native people. |
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They seemed to be saluting a noble party riding by, ladies on palfreys, gentlemen on chargers. |
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The promenade was often crowded with gentlemen and ladies, shaded from the summer sun by parasols, and children scurrying on the beach. |
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This gentlemen was having a problem on his computer and decided to call tech support. |
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I warn you, ladies and gentlemen, our hostess is talented in every art and craft imaginable. |
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These four gentlemen showed everyone that swimming is truly a sport that can be enjoyed for life. |
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Jimmy was one of nature's gentlemen, blessed with a great personality and he was of a warm and humorous nature. |
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With a friendly clap on the back, he sent Josh over to a group of elderly gentlemen, who all happily shook Josh's hand. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, now welcome the loveliest pearl in our ocean, Yvonne. |
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Miles motioned towards the gentlemen of the room, shrouded in a cloud of smoke and the smell of brandy. |
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Until about 1830, many Americans gambled in taverns and at cockfights, while gentlemen bet on horse races. |
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Nobles and gentlemen also bought the impropriated tithes and advowsons, and so strengthened their hand in parish affairs. |
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She seemed to have gentlemen admirers, though no impropriety was ever established. |
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Various farmers and scientific gentlemen gradually recognized the existence of a phenomenologically new and problematic insect. |
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A relaxed charmer with an eye for girls, he came from a family of gentlemen amateurs. |
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We were two slightly inebriated gentlemen trundling along on a Sunday evening. |
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Besides, he was a refreshing reminder that gentlemen do indeed still exist in the world, which you know has been a piercing fear of mine. |
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Happily, in most cases, the gentlemen are not chauvinist pigs either, and both parents share the duties of feeding the chicks when they hatch. |
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Every self-respecting Confucian gentlemen had Four Friends, four constant companions to his life. |
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Almost every one of these officers, and many others lost on the firing line were gentlemen officers. |
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The costumes of the gentlemen guests, on the contrary, were rather dull and too modern-looking. |
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It was the kind of thing that made one think back to a time of elegant ladies and poised gentlemen. |
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More and more of these gentlemen seem to feel impelled to do this, too, even though the truth is that there are not many sermonizers who can carry it off successfully. |
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The two gentlemen of Verona are best friends called Valentine and Proteus. |
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The image of ladies and soft gentlemen sitting under parasols trading opera glasses back and forth all the better to see men die always leaves me nauseous. |
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Now I know this may get me into a whole heap of trouble, but I couldn't help feeling this novel might prove more popular with ladies than gentlemen. |
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And menswear designer Michael Bastian created a world of gentlemen farmers and urbane dandies. |
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In ancient times when the occurrence of a swordfight wasn't too rare, gentlemen trained at a game called foil with the express purpose of learning to duel. |
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It is inconceivable that Spenser, the 'poet loved of the poets', and the pattern of princely gentlemen, advanced this suggestion from personal vaingloriousness. |
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In their splendid robes and richly ornamented yataghans, the gentlemen of the party lent unusual picturesqueness to the commonplace surroundings of a railway platform. |
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In their own ennui of the day, they passed their idleness with staring out the window to spy Elizabeth's coming from the back lawns accompanied by two gentlemen. |
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Look lively gentlemen, here comes part of the welcoming committee. |
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Sensing a threat both to their property and their prerogative, the high-born gentlemen put an end to the little experiment in selfless utopianism. |
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between a geek and a nerd. |
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The rest of the time, players appear to be gentlemen of leisure. |
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It was rather amusing for me, watching these two gentlemen parley. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the easily vincible Straw Man. |
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He looks to be a well-educated, generous, and pacifistic gentlemen. |
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Even if you don't believe in the cause yourself, you have to admit that this is the sort of thing that makes gentlemen safe abed hold their manhood cheap. |
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But they weren't drinking, they weren't rowdies, they were marvelous ladies and gentlemen that were a credit to their country and to their faith and to their parents. |
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These gentlemen, said Clausewitz in brief, had the misfortune of mistaking the accoutrements of war for its essential nature. |
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Entering Nunnington Hall is like stepping back to the heyday of the British Empire when English gentlemen proved their manhood by shooting game and fighting in wars. |
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As a friend of both those gentlemen, I have to say that I find myself in the indelicate position of having a foot planted firmly on either side of a barbed wire fence. |
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It must be noted that, in 1709, Jonathan Swift found little discipline at the universities and little learning amongst the gentlemen of high quality. |
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But instead, ladies and gentlemen, I am unproud to have to announce that rock has morphed into another musical concept with about as much dignity as a TV evangelist. |
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In 1869, for example, a secret camera was set up on Derby Day, to take photographs of gentlemen visiting the races with ladies other than their wives. |
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Mick who was one of life's natural gentlemen, was a singer and a comedian. |
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Truly can it be said that Pete Flanagan was one of nature's gentlemen. |
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Farewell, base peasant, and thank God thy fathers were no gentlemen. |
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Indeed, moments later, the gentlemen would walk under a black tent set up for the camera monitors and unsnap the top of their waders, pointing themselves at the fan just so. |
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Not an untutored brawl, mind you, but a fair fight between very skillful gentlemen, carried out in strict accordance with rules, both written and unwritten. |
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But I intend to rob him again someday, ladies and gentlemen, because robbing Howie is what I do best. |
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At the same time, I knew that they were these gentlemen whom I had just recently met. |
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At a far corner of the clubroom two astute gentlemen were, like some of the other members, sipping their tot of whiskey and engaged in hushed conversation. |
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Watching these distinguished gentlemen operate, we feel certain that the old stereotypes of Italian-American men as Mafiosi, brutes, sexual predators, or idiots are behind us. |
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Round and princess settings are the most common choices for engagement rings, so gentlemen might want to check before opting for a heart or pear-shaped stone. |
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Ladies and gentlemen who lunch at the outside tables of the rl Grill looked as relaxed as if the world had no troubles at all. |
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The good yeomen and thespians who put on the River City Shakespeare Festival are in need of a few knaves, churls, gentlemen and gentlewomen to volunteer as well. |
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He speaks perfect English and is quite the little gentlemen. |
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So, ladies and gentlemen, go forth and speak the cool lines. |
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Among British gentlemen, this signals that one may be miffed or cross, if not positively shirty. |
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There is diverse of his gentlemen stolen away therefor, and some are comen to Calais, and one of them is sent to our sovereign lord and king. |
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The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess Victoria. |
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A party of gentlemen were invited to witness the experiment, that the superiority of the new road might be established by ocular demonstration. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. |
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The colonists, many of them gentlemen ill-prepared to be settlers, achieved failure at almost everything they tried. |
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They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power. |
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Captain Kirk! And the ineluctible Mr. Spock. Welcome to Motherlode, gentlemen. Interested in purchasing a little love? |
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In addition to the increasing professionalism of university science, many Victorian gentlemen devoted their time to the study of natural history. |
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In the days when gentlemen carried swords, there were no lines in the Chamber. |
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Howard just talks to young public school gentlemen from the party headquarters. |
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Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong. |
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Thereafter succeeding generations of the family are described as gentlemen. |
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The extent of leadership given by these gentlemen has long been a subject of discussion. |
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My restless sock feet stopped midtap, on the very floor those gentlemen trod in their calfskin shoes and spats. |
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He was a country squire and looked to country gentlemen for his political base. |
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Because they served in the front ranks, the gentlemen suffered higher proportional casualties than the common clansman. |
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The gentlemen of the Appin Regiment suffered one quarter of those killed, and one third of those wounded from their regiment. |
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Unlike the game in England, rugby union in Wales was never seen as a sport for gentlemen of higher learning. |
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The White Conduit gentlemen were not amused by such interruptions and decided to look for a more private venue of their own. |
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In the previous kingdoms, positions in national institutions were filled by educated gentlemen. |
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In May 1648 two of the gentlemen attending the king, Osborne and Dowcett, were accused of a plot to abet his escape, and were arrested. |
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Until World War I, big cutters and raters were raced by gentlemen amateurs employing skippers and crew. |
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The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days. |
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However, at the assizes, the grand jury generally consisted of gentlemen of high standing in the county. |
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If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs. |
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This, gentlemen, is a list of the joint-stock companies created last year.... Of these some were stillborn, but the majority hold the market. |
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Not by the Raffles kind of gentlemen jewel thief, once played by Anthony Valentine, but by the Barbary apes that live on the Rock of Gibraltar. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Don Draper we know and love is back. |
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It was the claim to scientific authority, after all, that legitimized race in the minds of gentlemen scholars and social uplifters. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, we hereby announce that the first and last GALLUS prize is being dedicated, with gratitude, to Mrs Moira Salmond. |
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On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. |
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The typical farmer did not own a horse in the first place, and racing was a matter for gentlemen only, but ordinary farmers were spectators and gamblers. |
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Below these were the lairds, roughly equivalent to the English gentlemen. |
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In 1701, Defoe presented the Legion's Memorial to the Speaker of the House of Commons, later his employer Robert Harley, flanked by a guard of sixteen gentlemen of quality. |
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The clan gentlemen formed the front ranks of the unit and were more heavily armed than their impoverished tenants who made up the bulk of the regiment. |
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These esteemed gentlemen were part of a club in Westminster known as the Turk's Head Tavern, where they would often meet to discuss the topics of the day. |
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Marry come up with such gentlemen! though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money. |
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Holbein managed to secure commissions among those courtiers who now jockeyed for power, in particular from Anthony Denny, one of the two chief gentlemen of the bedchamber. |
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The courts became feared for their censorship of opposing religious views, and became unpopular among the propertied classes for inflicting degrading punishments on gentlemen. |
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Strict dress rules apply and gentlemen must wear a lounge suit with tie. |
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Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus? |
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He had seen the boothmen and horse dealers at fairs playing brightly colored cards, and gentlemen at Shea's with their cards, cigars, and brandies. |
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Priestly gentlemen called Postulators pored over the Cardinal's documents. |
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And as for serving under Goffe, I hope it is no new thing for gentlemen of fortune who are going on the account, to change a Captain now and then? |
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We watch with wonder how the gentlemen makes this special kind of seekh kebab with tenderised beef, tying a string around it to hold the meat on the skewer. |
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A little group of old gentlemen immediately foregathered with them. |
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Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly. |
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Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other. |
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Down with this Delilah! Avaunt, O Circe, giver of poisonous feeds. To your natural haunts, ye gentlemen of the press! if bachelors, frequent your taverns, and be content. |
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Nine gentlemen were wearing trilbies, one a homburg and one a bowler. |
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The public school became a model for gentlemen and for public service. |
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Local gentlemen, clergy and merchants were nominated as trustees and they appointed a clerk, a treasurer and a surveyor to actually administer and maintain the highway. |
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An unsuccessful business venture ran Appuldurcombe as a hotel, but with its failure, the house was then leased as Dr Pound's Academy for young gentlemen. |
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Its childishly simple rules and its image as a sedate pastime for elderly gentlemen put checkers deep in the shadow of chess, it smore prestigious rival. |
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