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...tainly a gentleman, thereto Clerk like experienced, which no less adorns Our gentry than our parents’ noble names, In whose success we are gentle,—I b...

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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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...These knights will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the article of thy gentry. MISTRESS FORD: We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I ...

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...and from the custom, in each empire, to send their young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to pol ish themselves by seeing the world,... ...for cordials.” He observed, “that among the diversions of our no bility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this enter... ... ies, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward. They are indeed perfect enough in their ex... ...part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ...

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...I must withdraw and weep Upon the spot of this enforced cause,— To grace the gentry of a land remote, And follow unacquainted colors here? What, here?...

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...en a sacrifice,” said the Warden, “to the old preference which our English gentry have inherited from their Norman ancestry, of game to man. You had c... ...d views of ruined castles, churches, cathedrals, the seats of nobility and gentry; Roman, British, and Saxon remains, painted windows, oak carvings, a... ...ithwaite Hospital, once a year, to give a grand dinner to the nobility and gentry of the neighborhood; and to this end a bequest had been made by one ... ...thor’s note .— “The dinner is given to the pension ers, as well as to the gentry, I think.” Note 2. Author’s note .— “For example, a story of three b...

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...e king, to appoint Who should attend on him? He makes up the file Of all the gentry; for the most part such To whom as great a charge as little honor ...

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...his treason, stand’st not thou attainted, Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry? His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood; And, till thou be res...

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...ts will hacke, and so thou shouldst not alter the ar-ticle 598 of thy Gentry. 599 Mi.Ford. Wee burne day- light: heere, read, read: 600...

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...weepe 2281 Vpon the spot of this inforced cause, 2282 To grace the Gentry of a Land remote, 2283 And follow vnacquainted colours heere: 2...

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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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...1 Second Lord: It well may serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. KING: ...

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...s it formerly was dignified by the residence of the principal nobility and gentry. I may therefore, with some propriety, put the same motto at the hea... ... “Ay, ay—cushion, just sae. They maun a’ hae their cush- ions—there’s sma’ gentry without that—and so the arms, as they ca’ them, of the house of Glen... ... several, had little in their manners to distinguish them from the Lowland gentry, when they mixed in society in Edinburgh, and assumed the Low- land ... ...an—take it all; never make two bites of a cherry. Thou canst talk over the gentry, and blear a plain man’s eye. Out upon you, man. I would not kiss an...

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... Len. For certaine Sir, he is not: I haue a File 2185 Of all the Gentry; there is Seywards Sonne, 2186 And many vnruffe youths, that eu...

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... Never mind. Don’t tell her what you told me. Go on the Peerage and Landed-Gentry tack. CAPT . G. She’ d see through it. She’s five times cleverer tha...

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...ntury? At a time when every week sees the town banker drawn from our rural gentry; railway directors in ev- ery quarter transferring themselves indiff... ...ts of races, balls, musical assemblies, with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the landed esquires (or middle gentry); with the superior ord... ...t, with us, constitute the lower and broader stratum of the nobilitas,* or gentry). The ob- scure baronage of Germany, it is undeniable, insist upon h... ...rs, as, for instance, in the Oxford matriculation registers, all the upper gentry (knights, esquires, &c.) are technically designated by the word nobi... ...ublic notice is, that, in rural situations, from the absence of a resident gentry (speaking generally), the pastor is brought into rare collision with... ...n, are also under the same ban of rejection from the “no- bility,” or born gentry. The legal profession is equally de- graded; even a barrister or adv... ...ctions cooper- ates, in a very powerful way, with the contempt of the born gentry, to degrade these professions; and this double agency is, a third ti...

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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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...e chance of falling in with some ship. I have a letter from the owner. Our gentry are tired of being stuck in the mud and wish for assistance.” “What ... ... Tell me, how many men have you in that yacht?” “Twenty-three, besides the gentry, the owner, his wife and a Spanish gentleman—a friend they picked up... ...aster who leaned against the main mast—as near as he dared to approach the gentry—was shining and crimson between white whiskers, like a glowing coal ... ... the audacity of his remonstrance. Perhaps—it flashed upon him—the yacht’s gentry will hear I stood up for them. This could conceivably be of advantag... ... I shall arm the boats and proceed inshore to look for you and the yacht’s gentry, and shan’t rest till I know whether any or all of you are above the...

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...ur personal safety. Black-fishers, poach- ers, and smugglers are a sort of gentry that will not be much checked, either by your Quaker’s texts, or by ... ...ssed, he deliv- ered to James with directions to dismiss the particoloured gentry, who, in the meanwhile, had consumed a gallon of twopenny ale, while... ...arms. ‘“One day, Nixon,” whispered my uncle, “we will make these redcoated gentry stand to their muskets more watch- fully.” ‘“Or it will be the worse... ...aordinary and con- trasted scenes; now lodging at the castles of the proud gentry of Cheshire and Wales, where the retired aristocrats, with opinions ... ...him af- fect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest him... ...e made evidently a strong impres- sion,—’you may temporize, as most of the gentry in this country do, and let the bubble burst of itself; for it is si... ...Nanty Ewart. I will make a man of you for life!’ ‘Oh ho! then the Jacobite gentry are not so safe as they think themselves?’ said Nanty. ‘In an hour o...

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...was very great: and the richer sort of people, especially the nobility and gentry from the west part of the city, thronged out of town with their fami... ...remotest parts of England; and, as I have heard also, the nobility and the gentry in all parts of England took the de- plorable condition of the city ... ...urn. The Court, indeed, came up soon after Christmas, but the nobility and gentry, except such as depended upon and had employment under the administr...