gentry

• For the first time since the Reformation the English gentry were ardent not for king only but for Church and King The zeal of the Parliament at its outset therefore far outran that of Charles or his ministers. —  History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683
• The nobility and gentry, as well as the blacklegs and swindlers of all the nations of Europe, gather there. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• Literature to most of the titled gentry is a blank, my lord--it is so now and always has been so. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• It runs back like an embayment into the close-growing scrub, and as the trail can be distinguished debouching at its upper end, the naturalist has no doubt that these joyous gentry are approaching in that direction And so are they--a singular cavalcade, consisting of some thirty individuals on horseback; for all are mounted. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
• His grandfather didn't exactly belong to the gentry--it was better than that: he was an Irish clerque who had become a scrivener, and then risen to a professorship A. T. Stewart was heir to a goodly amount of decent pride, which always kept him in the society of educated people, and made him walk with the crown of his head high and his chin in. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

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