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...fably sad. I saw Erik as being part of the same social class as any landed gentry. His investments meant that he need not keep an office in someo...

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... of their mother and their present-but-not-really-there father. Their social standing is very low, but they both attract firm friends, even among the gentry, for their honesty, industry, and good-heartedness. Then a glorious skating race is proposed for the town of Broek, with the prize a pair of silver skates for both the winning boy and girl. In the weeks leading up to t...

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...hich I offer no opinion—’ But here I interrupted him. ‘One word ere you go fur- ther. I am under no parole,’ said I. ‘I understood so much,’ he replie... ...ion; and if I am pursued, I must just try to keep out of the way.’ ‘Mr. St. Ivy,’ said Sim, with something resembling en- thusiasm, ‘no’ a word mair! ... ...the company of a gentleman of educa- tion like yourself.’ ‘If you set up to be a gentleman—‘ I began. ‘Pardon me,’ he interrupted: ‘I make no such cla... ...ble I rolled away into a crescendo of simi- lar impressions. There are certainly few things to be com- pared with these castles, or rather country sea... ...,’ said I. ‘Well, well, damn all these Frenchmen, say I!’ 172 St. Ives ‘Y ou may say so indeed, sir,’ said the waiter. ‘They ain’t not to say in the ... ... so small a thing?’ cried he. ‘Byfield, sir, is an aeronaut. He apes the fame of a Lunardi, and is on the point of offering to the inhabitants—I beg y...

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...eto 500 Clerke- like experienc’d, which no lesse adornes 501 Our Gentry, then our Parents Noble Names, 502 In whose successe we are gen...

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...riend, I thus obtained an opportunity of seeing the old Irish nobility and gentry more extensively, and on a more inti- mate footing, than I had hoped... ...rt, some of these were conspicuously in the rear of the English commercial gentry, as to modern refine- ments of luxury. There was at the same time an... ...frantic confluence of horrors. All the loy- alists of Enniscorthy, all the gentry for miles around, who had congregated in that town, as a centre of s...

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...eping a mansion there for the purpose, and providing entertainment for the gentry of the place and neighbourhood. Twilight was setting in when the Maj... ...igh about killing me if I harboured you and got him into trouble, with the gentry.” “If you could only hide me in some loft or barn till I could meet ...

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... of England, making a great feast in France, the concourse of nobility and gentry was so great, that being, for sport’s sake, divided into troops, acc... ...had, in truth, some preeminence of titles and alliances above the ordinary gentry. Upon the debate of this prerogative, every one, to make himself equ...

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...ited?” “Do you suppose I don’t see it, sir? It’s high time I should know the gentry. Why, I’ve grown up from a little thing with them. It’s nothing, s... ... as they call it, ‘gentlemanly’ lines of action. And they don’t sanction the gentry’s moving outside bounds clearly laid down in their ideas.” “Maybe ... ...left their work, taking off the bands that fastened their hair, to greet the gentry. “This is the reception room,” said Vronsky. “Here there will be a...

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...ic days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighboring cit... ...anything. It was As- sizes at Hexton, and there was a great meeting of the gentry at the “Bell;” and my lord’s people had their new liveries on, and H... ...t Newbury, should declare for the King on a certain day, when likewise the gentry affected to his Majesty’s cause were to come in with their tenants a... ...aithful subject lent him. There were various letters from the nobility and gentry, some ardent and some doubtful, in the King’s service; and (very luc... ... ’Tis known that King William was disposed to deal very leniently with the gentry who remained faithful to the old King’s cause; and no prince usurpin... ...rranged so as to bring him ease and give him pleasure. She liked the small gentry round about to come and pay him court, never caring for admiration f... ...King Charles—and to this house, whither indeed a great part of the country gentry went, my lord in- sisted upon going, not only himself, but on taking...

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..., stand’st not thou attainted, 1024 Corrupted, and exempt from ancient Gentry? 1025 His Trespas yet liues guiltie in thy blood, 1026 And t...

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...ere—for he had his private delicacies—to see any- thing but money made out of his betters. To be too en- quiring, or in any other way too free, at the...

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...E—AN INN ENTER Hostess, Charles, Maria, and Cook. Hostess to Maria) If the gentry in the Lion should want beds, shew them number 9. 94 Love and Frien...

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...which there have 92 Essays of Travel been many pretty buildings, belonging to the severall gentry of the countrey, who were wont to resort thither in... ...owne houses. It was once the principall street of the town; but many of these houses of the gentry having been decayed and ruined, it has lost much of...

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... convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of th... ...y delinquencies, rendered him a favourite among the nobility and principal gentry, to several of whom he was allied by birth, being of a distinguished... ...North Riding; circumstances which strongly recommended him to the youthful gentry. With the old, be had another part to play, which, when need- ful, h... ...was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any h... ...inguished Saxon and Danish families, as well as to the Norman nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. How- ever despised and degraded on ordinary oc... ...ity of the malt and the skill of the brewer. Some few of the poorer Norman gentry might also be seen, distinguished by their shaven chins and short cl...

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...but one way of dealing with it, and that is to fall sword in hand on those gentry there, sabre a la main sur ces gaillards la,” (Moniteur, Se- ance du... ...s suddenly all rallying. Now were the time to ‘fall sword in hand on those gentry there, ’ could it be done with effect. The Hero of two Worlds is on ...

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...en the two old men (Akim was fifty-six); the mer- chant inquired about the gentry of the neighbourhood and no one could give him more useful informati...

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...ality.” “Parents quite poor, I’m told.” “Lives on the charity of the local gentry.” Every one would stare intelligently at that distant squat- ting mo...

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...o be neat and supple. XII But if I go and say to my old hen: I’ll mend the gentry’s boots, and keep discreet, Until they grow too violent,—why, then, ...

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...ntent. Had this been all, it might not, perhaps, have greatly sig- nified; for when the lower classes alone complained, the court of France, separated...

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...versities. Already, in the time of James I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, ... ...e-keep- ing, which has ever distinguished the upper yeomanry and the rural gentry of England. Probable enough it is, that the resources for meeting th... ...r had been returned by the commissioners in their list of the Warwickshire gentry; he was there styled Robert Arden, Esq., of Bromich. This was in 143... ... be found at times in 25 Thomas de Quincey the society of the neighboring gentry. Ten years in advance of this period he was already in difficulties.... ...ough the humilities of absolute poverty, or through the chequered paths of gentry lying in the shade. Whatever was, must, in this case at least, have ... ...ly associates must still have been found amongst persons below the rank of gentry. The poet must inevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humb... ...ch people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gentry in Stratford, since they would have marked the distinctions of their... ...standing, to have won a tenderness of esteem such as is granted to decayed gentry. Yet naturally, the social rank of the parents, as people still livi... ...e original nucleus, around which soon gath- ers all that part of the local gentry who, for any purpose, whether of education for their children, or of...

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...t the establishment was one of the utmost respectability. *A member of the gentry class. 57 Gogol To that, however, our damp, cold hero gave not a th... ...none of them. One of them may own twenty souls, and another thirty, but of gentry who own a hundred there are none.” Chichikov reflected that he had i... ...l to ascend to the box-seat. Plac- ing one foot upon the step by which the gentry mounted, she covered the said step with mud, and then, ascending hig... ... burnt the mouth, since the dealers, familiar with the taste of our landed gentry (who love “good” madeira) invariably doctor the stuff with copious d... ...n that where Governors exist there must take place balls if from the local gentry there is to be evoked that respectful affection which is every Gover... ...est our hero of his wrappings. Evidently he was of opinion that, since the gentry declined to receive the visitor, the latter must certainly be a rogu... ...ir faults and failings! How thoroughly he knew the story of certain ruined gentry—the story of how, why, and through what cause they had fallen upon e...

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...d with all his strength, though he would not go the length of the Scottish gentry, who were for resisting it by force of arms. ’Twas said he withdrew ... ...he feelings of more than half the nation, of almost all the clergy, of the gentry of England and Scotland with him; entirely innocent of the crime for... ...ly unshaken in their King. A very great body of Tory clergy, nobility, and gentry, were public partisans of the exiled Prince; and the indifferents mi...

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...overflowing with aristocrats, as it was the fashion to call the nobles and gentry, and with the clergy who had refused their adhesion to the new state... ...oofed by the thick foliage of the trees, whose branches meet overhead. The gentry of La V endee, instead of idling their time at Paris, lived on their... ...nyone higher in station than themselves, thirsted for noble blood, and the gentry were driven from France, or else imprisoned and put to death. An oat... ...st come forward in the cause. It was a wondrous thing when the nobles, the gentry, and experienced officers who had served in the regular army, all wi...

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...he First forced our great grandfather. We are above titles; we old English gentry don’t want ‘em; the Queen can make a duke any day. Look at Blandford... ...ing the bodies as they lay on the field, and Jack had brained one of these gentry with the club-end of his musket, who had eased Esmond of his hat and...

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...” He called himself and his pals “rerum domi- nos, gentemque togatam;” the gentry that wore the toga. Yes, and a pretty affair that “toga” was. Just f... ...on after Pope’s Lady Suffolk. But then Cowper was living amongst the rural gentry, not in high life; yet, again, Cowper was nearly connected by blood ...

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...the slabs, and panels, and table tops, and tazze; the endless nobility and gentry of dessert, breakfast, and tea services; the gemmed perfume bottles,...

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... fact, the king and the court at Blois, that is to say, a hundred horsemen, ten carriages, two hundred horses, as many lackeys as masters — where was ...

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...om fatal continual duelling, be- 95 Thomas Carlyle tween the military and gentry, to street-fighting; to stone- volleys and musket-shot: and still th... ...he Basoche rejoices aloud, that the foe of Parlements is fallen; Nobility, Gentry, Com- monalty have rejoiced; and rejoice. Nay now, with new emphasis...

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...ed?” “Do you suppose I don’t see it, sir? It’s high time I should know the gentry. Why, I’ve grown up from a little thing with them. It’s nothing, sir...

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...t, it has passed from fatal continual duel- ling, between the military and gentry, to street-fighting; to stone-volleys and musket-shot: and still the... ...he Basoche rejoices aloud, that the foe of Parlements is fallen; Nobility, Gentry, Commonalty have re- joiced; and rejoice. Nay now, with new emphasis... ...but one way of dealing with it, and that is to fall sword in hand on those gentry there, sabre a la main sur ces gaillards la,” (Moniteur, Seance du 2... ...s suddenly all rallying. Now were the time to ‘fall sword in hand on those gentry there,’ could it be done with effect. The Hero of two Worlds is on h...

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...it was already an article in the decrees of fashion among the nobility and gentry of both sexes in the metropolis to have their linen and laces washed...

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...sh of Mary-le-bone, who lent out all sorts of articles to the nobility and gentry, from a service of plate to an army of footmen, clapped into this ho...

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...n the House, these poor knit- ted brows, these public perspirations of the gentry who “can- not understand P .R.,” should suffice. But let us be just;...

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...ic days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighboring cit... ...anything. It was As- sizes at Hexton, and there was a great meeting of the gentry at the “Bell;” and my lord’s people had their new liveries on, and H... ...t Newbury, should declare for the King on a certain day, when likewise the gentry affected to his Majesty’s cause were to come in with their tenants a... ...aithful subject lent him. There were various letters from the nobility and gentry, some ardent and some doubtful, in the King’s service; and (very luc... ... ’Tis known that King William was disposed to deal very leniently with the gentry who remained faithful to the old King’s cause; and no prince usurpin... ...rranged so as to bring him ease and give him pleasure. She liked the small gentry round about to come and pay him court, never caring for admiration f... ...King Charles—and to this house, whither indeed a great part of the country gentry went, my lord in- sisted upon going, not only himself, but on taking... ...he First forced our great grandfather. We are above titles; we old English gentry don’t want ‘em; the Queen can make a duke any day. Look at Blandford... ...ing the bodies as they lay on the field, and Jack had brained one of these gentry with the club-end of his musket, who had eased Esmond of his hat and...

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...ut twelve or eighteen months before. They wore the cast- off graces of the gentry;—and this, I believe, involves the best definition of the class. The... ...ll pick- pockets with which all great cities are infested. I watched these gentry with much inquisitiveness, and found it difficult to imag- ine how t...

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...ords!) that I’m ashamed to wait on him—who’s the laughing stock of all the gentry and the housekeeper’s room too—try a man,’ says he—’don’t be taking ... ...erod of a monarch wanted to secure the eldest sons of all the nobility and gentry, as hos- tages for the good behavior of their parents. Athelstane wa...

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...ey, miss,’ said he jocularly, ‘you won’t look at me any more, now you have gentry at the castle.’ Her cheeks burned with anger. ‘That’s my lord’s chay...