Use gentlemen in a sentence
Sentences starting with gentlemen
- Gentlemen you've done yourselves proud. [5]
- Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
- Gentlemen in dress-coats were admitted to the circle under the dome. [4]
- Gentlemen were beginning to build their houses of brick and stone, in stately and magnificent fashion. [4]
- Gentlemen strolling by--doctor, lawyer, officer, idler--paused and forgot the raw climate, for this marvellous voice in the unshapely body warmed them, and they pushed in among the fast-gathering crowd. [11]
- Gentlemen who are in evening dress are admitted to stand in the reserved places inside the lines of soldiers. [4]
- Gentlemen of the House, your committee are giving to this bill and other measures their undivided attention, and will report them at the earliest practicable moment. [9]
- Gentlemen of degree discussed differences amicably over their decanters. [9]
- Gentlemen in brilliant court uniforms, princes and princesses he saw daily in the court-yards, on the stairs, and in the park of the palace. [10]
- Gentlemen continued to come to the plantation, for the barrister's wisdom was sorely missed at the councils. [9]
Sentences ending with gentlemen
- Pray give me your opinion, gentlemen. [10]
- I ain't blaming you, gentlemen. [5]
- What business have you here watching a game between gentlemen? [9]
- One would know you came from a land where there are no gentlemen. [5]
- He dressed his whites in the fashion of their day, both the ladies and the gentlemen. [5]
- Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. [5]
- Look at her well, gentlemen. [9]
- You recall that we were at supper together, with Betty Tayloe and Lord Comyn, and how merry we were, altho' 'twas nothing but 'Dorothy' with you gentlemen. [9]
- The French ambassador was there, and a foreign prince of the blood who had of late become a frequent visitor of hers, and many brilliant ladies and gentlemen. [2]
- One day he was summoned ashore, but declined to go, and requested an interview with ten gentlemen. [4]
Short sentences using gentlemen
- The young gentlemen were arrested. [10]
- Is it not so, gentlemen? [2]
- What do you say, gentlemen? [10]
- Have I your permission gentlemen? [10]
- Why, gentlemen, for love---- Act. [5]
- Miss Brass is here, gentlemen. [12]
- Good night, gentlemen, good night. [9]
- Shall we return, gentlemen? [5]
- What is it, gentlemen? [2]
- This is all, gentlemen. [5]
Sentences containing gentlemen two or more times
- When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie! [2]
- All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards; and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring with extraordinary earnestness at nothing. [12]
- Just because I went to Gruber's with Neva Lorrie and a couple of gentlemen--they were gentlemen all right, as much gentlemen as Ditmar--you come at me and tell me I'm all to the bad. [9]
- It may be urged by gentlemen that the hardships and privations of a frontier life have rendered Mr. Davis tough; but, gentlemen, is this a time to cavil at toughness? [5]
- Anne Rory knew the gentlemen by sight, and the gentlemen did not know Anne Rory. [9]
- It is maintained that these people are not gentlemen, but are a lower sort, disguised as gentlemen. [5]
- With one word, my gentlemen, I would your beloved language simplify so that, my gentlemen, when you her for prayer need, One her yonder-up understands. [5]
- That reminds me; just met some gentlemen from your State, a week or two ago--very prominent gentlemen --in public life they are; you must know them, without doubt. [5]
- Detain the gentlemen in comfortable quarters until he arrives, and then act upon the message he brings, as far as applicable, it having been made up to pass through General Ord's hands, and when the gentlemen were supposed to be beyond our lines. [7]
- Detain the gentlemen in comfortable quarters until he arrives, and then act upon the message he brings as far as applicable, it having been made up to pass through General Ord's hands, and when the gentlemen were supposed to be beyond our lines. [7]
More example sentences with the word gentlemen in them
- Come, come, gentlemen, your swords, and we shall see the sights o' London. [9]
- There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
- These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
- But I tell you this, gentlemen, that you will live to see the day when you will bitterly regret this injustice to an innocent and a noble woman, and Isaac D. Worthington will live to regret it. [9]
- But what do you know about gentlemen, anyway? [11]
- After all, as you are a gentleman or a lady, you will probably select gentlemen for your bodily and spiritual advisers, and then all will be right. [6]
- But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850. [7]
- I repeat, I would not introduce this mode of discussion here; but I wish gentlemen on the other side to understand that the use of degrading figures is a game at which they may not find themselves able to take all the winnings. [7]
- I think it would be a good lesson for the young gentlemen to be spread-eagled against the mists of their future. [11]
- The gentlemen were wont to dine at the Coffee House, and I would sit near the foot of the table, taking notes of their plans. [9]
- Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
- These gallant gentlemen, with one hundred and fifty souls, had been wrecked on the Bermudas in the Sea Venture in the preceding July. [4]
- I may speak with less restraint of those gentlemen who have aided me in the most laborious part of my daily duties, the Demonstrators, to whom the successive classes have owed so much of their instruction. [3]
- Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
- The unschooled gentlemen with him roared with laughter at his sallies, and they came to the place of meeting as though to a summer feast. [11]
- It was ablaze with candles, and I caught glimpses of fine gentlemen and ladies in the rooms. [9]
- These gentlemen possessed wind which they had not wasted in processions. [9]
- As these gentlemen will tell you, if I'd had my wish I'd have had you on every important committee in the House. [9]
- No, gentlemen, I will not deceive you, she is not an orphan. [5]
- They were gentlemen who would go home to England or Germany and tell how many miles they had beaten the guide-book every day. [5]
- Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
- But the gentlemen who had come to receive us were there with their servants, and they make quick work; there was no lost time. [5]
- I know that while the coming transaction was still a secret, you and other, gentlemen connected with the matter bought up large interests in other lines, which you proceeded to lease to yourselves at guaranteed dividends which these lines do not earn. [9]
- The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around. [2]
- The Assembly to which many of these gentlemen belonged was in a righteous state of opposition to the Proprietary and the Council concerning the emoluments of colonial officers and of clergymen. [9]
- Of the part which Enderby had played Lord Rippingdale said no more to the King than this: "Sir John Enderby was of these gentlemen who saved your Majesty's life. [11]
- Gentlemen, that is what 'legal practice' has descended to in the hands of respectable lawyers. [9]
- I tell you what it is, gentlemen, I shall go in for reform. [5]
- All the riders were young gentlemen in fashionable society. [5]
- But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
- And if I were the Queen," she finished in a flash, "I would teach you surly gentlemen not to meddle. [9]
- The two gentlemen were left alone. [11]
- Of course they were intended for the gentlemen from Nuremberg and their guests. [10]
- All the quality were in the country, of course, save only four gentlemen of the local Patriots' committee, of which Captain Daniel was a member, and with whom he had an appointment at ten. [9]
- Both gentlemen however were from home, nor was the life and light of law, Miss Sally, at her post either. [12]
- And these gentlemen were frequently in argument, but political discussion is Greek to a lad. [9]
- In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. [2]
- Still other gentlemen were delivering themselves of the first impressive periods of orations, only to be drowned by the cheers of their auditors. [9]
- Therefore, five gentlemen were appointed to prepare the document, and the fifty others went sadly smiling about the ship--practicing. [5]
- Among the company were also Captains Martin, Archer, Wood, Webbe, Moore, King, Davis, and several gentlemen of good means, and a crowd of the riff-raff of London. [4]
- In this company were a couple of gallants, lately come over, Gabriel Beadle and John Russell, proper gentlemen, but unused to hardships, whom Smith has immortalized by his novel cure of their profanity. [4]
- Then two gentlemen went to Washington, and the next thing that happened was Brigadier General Lyon, Commander of the Department of the West. [9]
- From Switzerland I went to a foggy place called London, and thence I crossed the ocean to the solemn forests of the north of Canada, where I was many years, learning the characters of these gentlemen who are looking in upon us. [9]
- I like very well to talk with gentlemen that play with my branch of entomology; I do not doubt it amused you, and if you want to see anything I can show you, I shall have no scruple in letting you see it. [6]
- One might as well set the gentlemen detained in the public prisons to trying each other. [5]
- Alice liked society well enough, she thought, but there was nothing exciting in that of Fallkill, nor anything novel in the attentions of the well-bred young gentlemen one met in it. [5]
- This, gentlemen, as well as I can give it, is a plain statement of our principles in all their enormity. [7]
- Here all were welcome, even the light-fingered gentlemen who enjoyed the privilege of police protection; and who sometimes, through fortuitous circumstances, were hauled before the very magistrates with whom they had rubbed elbows on the polished rail. [9]
- I know the ways of real gentlemen and real ladies, and I know those fellows in store clothes that look a little too fine,--outside. [6]
- Sellers led the way to a saloon on Fourth street under the hotel, and the young gentlemen fell into the custom of the country. [5]
- Next day, which was yesterday, those gentlemen, messieurs les marechaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, mount and ride to the bridge. [2]
- A rude table was set there under a great tree, and around it three gentlemen were talking. [9]
- A good post was procured for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. [12]
- As yet there was no hope of sleep, inasmuch as that the noise made, by the gentlemen at their carouse came up loud and clear through the open window and, the later it grew, the louder waxed Herdegen's voice and the Junker's, above all others. [10]
- The district attorney was ill, and assigned the prosecution to a mild assistant; while a sceptical jury--composed largely of gentlemen who had the business interests of the community, and of themselves, at heart returned a verdict of "not guilty. [9]
- Mrs. Deacon Soper was directed, of course, to the ladies' dressing-room, and her husband to the other apartment, where gentlemen were to leave their outside coats and hats. [6]
- After breakfast he was conducted, with regal ceremony, attended by his great officers and his guard of fifty Gentlemen Pensioners bearing gilt battle-axes, to the throne-room, where he proceeded to transact business of state. [5]
- And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. [5]
- But, as it was a fair presumption that most colonial gentlemen made a visit home at least once in their lives, I did not allow the dust to get into my eyes. [9]
- At supper there was a decided festal air about the dining room of the Pelican House, the little band of agricultural gentlemen who wished to have a session not being patrons of that exclusive hotel. [9]
- It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. [5]
- The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. [2]
- We reached the village, the French gentlemen leaped down from their stools in the cart, and in ten minutes the streets were filled with frenzied, hooded figures. [9]
- It was all very well (so said the first spokesman) to pluck a few feathers from a bird so bountifully endowed as the Honourable Adam, but were not two gentlemen who should be nameless carrying the joke a little too far? [9]
- Thirty cultivated and very musical ladies and gentlemen present--all of them acquaintances and many of them personal friends of mine. [5]
- This is a very convenient infirmity for gentlemen who indulge in slightly aggressive remarks, but when they are hit back never seem to be conscious at all of the _riposte_,--the return thrust of the fencer. [6]
- We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
- But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this. [5]
- He appears to us always self-conscious and ill at ease with gentlemen born. [4]
- None of these upsetting rumours, however, were allowed by Mr. Bascom and other gentlemen close to the Honourable Adam B. [9]
- I have reflected upon these matters for years, gentlemen. [9]
- He will go upon the recommendation of two gentlemen of taste and travel whom we met at Baddeck, residents of Maine and familiar with most of the odd and striking combinations of land and water in coast scenery. [4]
- Two gentlemen are up there now in his room, I mean. [9]
- Before we broke up for the evening the gentlemen plied me with questions concerning the state of affairs in England, and the temper of his Majesty and Parliament. [9]
- It is not unusual to have American gentlemen in New Orleans, for many come here first and last. [9]
- These gentlemen, I understand, entered upon the duties designated at the times respectively stated in the schedule, and have labored faithfully therein ever since. [7]
- Fox had me under his especial care, and I was presented to young gentlemen who bore names that had been the boast of England through the centuries. [9]
- And from the two propositions a third is deduced, which is that the gentlemen composing the meeting are resolved on doing their part to maintain our common government and country, despite the folly or wickedness, as they may conceive, of any administration. [7]
- Percy and Cuderington, two gentlemen, volunteered to do it; but Smith sent instead Master Wiffin and Jeffrey Abbot, to go and stab them or shoot them. [4]
- One of these two gentlemen was Dr. Walshe, of whom I shall speak hereafter; the other was Dr. J. Milner Fothergill. [6]
- There were about twenty-five gentlemen present; educated men, men moving in good society, none of them commonplace; some of them were men of distinction, none of them were obscurities. [5]
- Over here the twenty thousand would-be exclusives come up to the polls and vote themselves to be ladies and gentlemen. [5]
- The gentlemen took turns, and never was their business so pressing that they missed their hour. [9]
- Especially was this true of Susan, whom certain young gentlemen from Harvard College called upon more or less frequently, and Cynthia had all of Susan's love affairs--including the current one--by heart in a very short time. [9]
- Not until the train stopped and the lords, ladies, and gentlemen who were escorting Philip turned their horses and left him did she recollect herself. [10]
- We left the train and mounted the donkeys, along with our invited guests--pleasant young gentlemen from the officers' list of an American man-of-war. [5]
- Apparently, in every town and city in India the gentlemen of the British civil and military service have a club; sometimes it is a palatial one, always it is pleasant and homelike. [5]
- There is Archias, too; there are the artists and the famous gentlemen of the Museum, the members of the Ephebi, and the priests of the great gods. [10]
- I came here to-night to ask you to undertake a mission in behalf of myself and certain other gentlemen, and I assure you that my motives are not wholly mercenary. [9]
- We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
- Something will happen to-day, gentlemen, something will surely happen. [10]
- Gentlemen, I stand to-day a discredited man because the honest debts I incurred in the service of that government are repudiated, because my friends who helped it, Father Gibault, Vigo, and Gratiot, and others have never been repaid. [9]
- Where is that tobacco now, gentlemen? [9]
- He instantly expressed to the Ratisbon gentlemen his desire to try the gagliarde himself to such excellent music, and at a sign from the master of ceremonies the dance stopped. [10]
- Before I get to the higgledy-piggledy point, as Mr. Howells suggested I do, I want to thank you, gentlemen, for this very high honor you are doing me, and I am quite competent to estimate it at its value. [5]
- Now he bowed to the gentlemen, offered her his arm, and as they descended the staircase, whispered: "The mask who escorted you just now detained me;--and there . [10]
- A sad disaster to the Federal army was told the other day in the presence of two gentlemen and a lady. [6]
- There were disputes to settle now that alarm had subsided, and at noon three excitable gentlemen came in to inform against a certain Monsieur Cerre, merchant and trader, then absent at St. Louis. [9]
- It was easy to see in the man himself that some deep sorrow or heavy sin gnawed at his heart, and nevertheless he was one of the stateliest old gentlemen I have met in a long life. [10]
- He was going to ride out to Valkenburg with Captain Allertssohn, Janus Dousa, and other gentlemen, to inspect the fortifications before his guests appeared. [10]
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