gentleman.

‘Yes; I have to think of it, and do think of it, and because I do so I am not what I call a gentleman.’

The Duke's Children 2004

And there was a young man -- what they call a gentleman.

The Pot Boiler Upton Sinclair 1923

The old man brought Elkanah up to be what he called a gentleman.

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Their attitude offends one's sense of the relation of things, and we feel that, after all, we could have spared half their works for a larger share of that delicate instinct for proportion, which is one of the most precious attributes of what we call a gentleman.

Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906

I suppose you'd turn up your nose at William J. Bryan because he ain't what you call a gentleman.

Senator North Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

Doubtless I had seen as fine specimens of young manhood before, but if so, I had seen without looking, and this man was evidently what we called a gentleman.

The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 1877

Portuguese father might be a Portuguese nobleman, and therefore one whom he might be driven to admit to have been some sort of gentleman; — but yet this man who was now in his presence and whom he continued to scan with the closest observation, was not what he called a gentleman.

The Prime Minister 1876

For such imponderables he had no scales, and he cared more for the kind of knowledge that was practically useful than for the interior improvement of the mind, which constitutes what we call a gentleman.

Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

Portuguese father might be a Portuguese nobleman, and therefore one whom he would be driven to admit to have been in some sort a gentleman; -- but yet this man who was now in his presence and whom he continued to scan with the closest observation, was not what he called a gentleman.

The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1848

"Well, then, I'll take your bet of a hat," replied the youth, "that he is not what I call a gentleman."

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833