gentlewoman's

I couldn't take pictures there, it's a gentlewoman's law, but I could take pictures of the car ride home.

blog: Realizations 2009

I couldn't take pictures there, it's a gentlewoman's law, but I could take pictures of the car ride home.

blog: July 2009 2009

It doesn't separate you from McCain and Palin in any meaningful way --- it's a kind of acquiescence, a gentlewoman's quarrel with her political masters.

Jesse Kornbluth: Open Letter to Peggy Noonan: Are You Big Enough For This Moment? 2008

'And now,' said Mr. Dubster, 'I must give up my t'other letter, asking the gentlewoman's pardon for not giving it before; only I was willing to give the young lady her's first, young ladies being apt to be more in a hurry than people a little in years.'

Camilla 2008

A thing nevertheless frequently used, and part of a gentlewoman's bringing up, to sing, dance, and play on the lute, or some such instrument, before she can say her paternoster, or ten commandments.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

UNIDENTIFIED PARTICIPANT: The gentlewoman's time expired.

CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005 2005

Her hands were gloved, to conceal the scars and calluses of an artisan's fingers in the guise of a gentlewoman's hands.

Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

The perfect image of a decent burgess's wife, or a gentlewoman's attendant.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

They rode quietly into town and dined at the Railway Arms, where several townsmen greeted them, then turned away to discuss the impropriety of an English gentlewoman's consorting with a cowboy.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

No stranger gentlewoman's dwelling could be found in the three kingdoms.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker