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But, as I were a-tellin 'ye, sor, in comes Bridget whilst I were talkin' to the jintleman behoind the bar at the rendywoo.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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She declared that "the jintleman was like other jintlemen, and barring that he seemed the b'y for the brandy," she saw nothing amiss in him.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various
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"Don't you, in your ` swate little island 'call poor piggy ` the jintleman who pays the rint,' eh?"
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Oh, there's bad language from a fellow that wants to pass for a jintleman.
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous
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"He's admired more nor any jintleman as walks Steven's Green in a month o 'Sundays, I'll go bail," continued Miss Jenny Roe, the ladies 'maid.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various
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"Oi'd cloimb in a jiffey; ounly the jintleman downstairs, faith, tould us all we wasn't."
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Afther we had shtopped at a station where they tuk tickets we wint ahead again, an 'prisintly, as we rips through some udther station, up jumps the jintleman opposite, swearin' hard undher his tongue, an 'looks out at the windy.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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There was a juce of a foine jintleman sittin 'there, an' he stares at me umbrageous, but I was not dishcommoded, bein 'onbashful by natur'.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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A jintleman in the crowd sings out: 'I'm a medical man!' an 'they tuk me in the waitin'-room, an' he investigated me, havin 'turned everybody else out av the room.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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Whin Corbett was poundin 'th' first jintleman iv th 'land like a man shinglin' a roof, th 'first lady iv th' land stood in th 'corner, cheerin' on th 'bruised an' bleedin 'hero.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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