Gentlefolks

Gentlefolks has so much call for money, as none of us know nothing of.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Gentlefolks in general have a very awkward rock ahead in life — the rock ahead of their own idleness.

The Moonstone 2003

Gentlefolks do not need to advertise, nor do they do so.

Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker

"Gentlefolks must be amused, cost what it may; but, hoping no offence, sir, the girl was a good friend to you in time of sickness; and so was this Paul, for that matter."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

The horses jostling about for room, and putting the Cock in danger of his life, he gives them this grave advice, “Pray, Gentlefolks! let us stand still! for fear we should tread upon one another!

The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church 1909

"Gentlefolks ... educated, and yet not a notion that with our hard lot ... in our life of toil" -- she burst into tears.

The Schoolmaster Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Gentlefolks, steeped in artifice, vice, and intrigue, masked their empty lives under the as sumption of Arcadian simplicity, and minced and ambled in the costumes of shepherds and shepherdesses.

The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878

Gentlefolks as my Friends on the Beach, who have not 5 meals a Day.

Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876

Gentlefolks like straight-forwardness in their inferiors

Evan Harrington — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Gentlefolks like straight-forwardness in their inferiors -- that's what they do. Ah! 'said Kilne, meditatively,

Evan Harrington — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868