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  • Do not let the word _coach_ conjure up a vision of “_the good old times_,” a dashing mail with a well-groomed team of active bays, harness all “spick and span,” a gentlemanly-looking coachman, and a guard in military scarlet, the whole affair rattling along the road at a pace of ten miles an hour.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • They are mostly intelligent and gentlemanly-looking young men, and foreigners in the interior are really much indebted to them.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • One of them is a gentlemanly-looking man, who wears a gray shirt; another looks like

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Indians were rarely to be seen; but there were silk hats and black coats everywhere worn by a multitude of nervously active, gentlemanly-looking men.

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

  • Wetherbee wore an ordinary cloth suit, made by a city tailor, and was by far the best-dressed and most gentlemanly-looking man in the room.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • I at once saw that these were all officers, excepting two or three; smart, well-got-up, gentlemanly-looking little men in the extreme; returning, perhaps, from calling off the last of their bloody war-dogs, or making sure that all resistance had ceased.

    Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan

  • He thinks for himself and acts for himself, I'll be sworn; besides, he is a fine, gentlemanly-looking fellow, and somehow the people get attached to such men, and are influenced by them.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • 'Yes, sir,' the Grimsby shopkeeper answered cheerfully, suspecting that his young, gentlemanly-looking customer required the things for a fancy-dress entertainment or theatricals.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • So the future clothing merchant chatted to himself, and did not take notice that a tall, handsomely dressed and gentlemanly-looking stranger was gazing upon him with a smile of benevolent good-comradeship, and at length spoke to him.

    Pixy's Holiday Journey George Lang

  • He was led into an immense saloon, where were a number of tables, upon which the choicest viands were profusely spread, and seated at which was a company of gentlemanly-looking personages, who chatted familiarly together, without the slightest demonstration of confusion or alarm.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

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