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How to use gentry in a sentence

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The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.
The members of the new gentry used their commercial connections and strategic land holdings to engross trade.
Hearing these landed gentry talk using the language of end-times apocalypse is pretty nuts.
Belonging mostly to the gentry, they had no intention of becoming dirt farmers or laborers in America.
The nineteenth-century revival of the eisteddfod and of the study of Welsh antiquities was initially encouraged by Anglican clergy and gentry.
On both sides of her family she could trace her ancestry back to Puritan settlers and landed gentry.
Sir Francis's two surviving sons were both destined for active service rather than the leisurely life of gentry on a country estate.
Staying here, it's easy to imagine that you have joined a private house party with the landed gentry.
Even America has its aristocracy, the landed gentry that haunt communities like the Hamptons.
There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
The landed gentry lost almost all of their power and status in the industrial revolution.
For years, the landed gentry have striven to keep secret the payments they received from Europe.
The dissolution of the monasteries strengthened the influence of the gentry and nobility and the shire became famous for its landed estates.
The fair days of the early years were occasions when only the gentry were in a position to buy and sell.
The source of ruling-class opposition was a distinct sector of the class, the landed gentry, and was perfectly rational in basis.
He was for the common people and against the corrupt and corrupting power of the gentry, nobility and royalty.
But throughout the early modern period, men from the labouring poor, and women of all ranks below the gentry, were illiterate.
More numerous than the gentry-become-townsmen were the burgesses who fraternised with the gentry.
Country people were more practical, but from the 17th century, cottagers as well as landed gentry took immense pride in their plants.
He disbelieves the commons who testified that the gentry willingly took command, shared their grievances, and led them on.
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He also tells us that the gentry often resorted here from Ebbesham, then in high fashion.
From this eulogium we gently but firmly exclude the rat gentry of the sewers.
Many of these lived miserably as tenants on the farms of the gentry between Nanking and Hangchow.
These men formed a part of the emperor's guards and were under the command of members of the Shensi gentry.
Protect the nobility and gentry in their harlotry, and let holiness be measured by the fineness of the garments.
Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking gentry, at your service.
Meanwhile, what became of the once aristocratic Opposition, with its 'silk-stocking gentry,' as they were termed?
It is the gentry who offer a rich demesne, vineland and tilth, to Meleager, imploring him to take part in their war.
Her presence protects us, and we will ensure her safety better than her mustachioed gentry.
The netsuke and the pipe, with all that pertained to it, were for the commoners what the sword-hilt and guard were for the gentry.
West Chester, to say no more than she deserved, was a county with a spirited gentry, and one of which no colony need be ashamed.
Several of the wirral gentry met in a summer-house at Bidston, and talked of a rising in his favour.
The interests of the gentry of the Yangtze region were injured by the transfer.
Later on we shall examine more fully the activities of these gentry in the chapters devoted to Pan-Islamism and Nationalism.
But it's time the gentry swells knowed as how we're Yuman bein's as well as theirselves.
The gentry did not so often patronize public balls, but this was an exception.
It is far otherwise, and many of these gentry have the organ of philoprogenitiveness strongly developed.
I suppose you have no objection this time to bestow a few bullets on these gentry?
All the gentry up for'ard are bussed up comfortably like fowls for cooking.
The gentry society was, therefore, a comparably stable society with little upward social mobility but with some downward mobility.
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