leman

• Do be a good gen'leman, and forgive me as you ought to, bad as I've been. —  Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
• If I am to be held as Gunnar's leman--well and good, then must he win me honour by his deeds--by deeds so mighty that my shame shall be shame no more! —  The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.
• But an omnibus conductor (being filled with the Muse) would burst out into a solid literary effort: 'You're a gen'leman, aren't yer ... yer boots is a lot brighter than yer 'ed...there's precious little of yer, and that's clothes...that's right, put yer cigar in yer mouth 'cos I can't see yer be'ind it...take it out again, do yer! —  The Defendant
• "I came not here to be confronted with a base groom, nor to answer the interrogatories of James's heretical leman--I came to speak with the Queen of Scotland--Give place there And while the Lady Lochleven stood confounded at her boldness, and at the reproach she had cast upon her, Magdalen Graeme strode past her into the bedchamber of the Queen, and, kneeling on the floor, made a salutation as if, in the Oriental fashion, she meant to touch the earth with her forehead Hail, Princess!" —  The Abbot
• You're a gen'leman--I'm aweer o' that but I must speak the truth--[he waves his hand] an' shame the devil BERTLEY. —  Plays : Third Series

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