shentlemen

"Oh well!" and Santoris laughed -- "There are so many 'shentlemen' that own yachts!

The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889

Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

“No,” said he, taking me by the hand, “you are going to a country where there is more respect sown to unfortunate shentlemen, and where you will have the satisfaction of peholding your adversaries tossing upon pillows of purning primstone.”

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

"The shentlemen of honorable wealth, Frau Scheff, would like to wash their esteemed countenances," he explained with ironical deference.

Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt

"If he does," said another freshman, "he will be able to obtain a dress suit down at Cohen's, price 'von tollar ber efenin' to shentlemen. '"

Frank Merriwell at Yale Burt L. Standish 1905

"You see it is vell tat te shentlemen tit not vait vor bermission," said the German as we hurried into our wraps.

A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

"I been see Mistare Le-vie in ze 'ouse, on ze beezness, shentlemen."

Mr. Justice Raffles 1893

"Hooiver, shentlemen," he added, "if ye wunna tak it -- here's wushin 'your fery coot health!"

The Eagle Cliff 1859

"Noo, shentlemen, ye'll tak a tram?" said Ian, producing a black bottle.

The Eagle Cliff 1859

"Noo, shentlemen, I think we had petter be goin '."

The Eagle Cliff 1859