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Examples
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The curse of England is the obstinate determination of the middle classes to make their sons what they call gentlemen.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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I want you to marry one of those they call gentlemen.
Demos George Gissing 1880
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I think the thing about dueling was that it was supposed to be reserved for the aristocracy, for so-called gentlemen.
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I think the thing about dueling was that it was supposed to be reserved for the aristocracy, for so-called gentlemen.
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I think the thing about dueling was that it was supposed to be reserved for the aristocracy, for so-called gentlemen.
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I think the thing about dueling was that it was supposed to be reserved for the aristocracy, for so-called gentlemen.
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He is glowering at Franco and Dieudonne, willing them to draw closer to each other while he continues his commercial discourse with the no-name gentlemen.
The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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He is glowering at Franco and Dieudonne, willing them to draw closer to each other while he continues his commercial discourse with the no-name gentlemen.
the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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Though this indeed is evident from what we have already said: there are also many different sorts of common people, and also of those who are called gentlemen.
Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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Revolution -- were what we are wont to describe as gentlemen.
America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien
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