Sidenote: Gentilityis wholly foreign to renown, and to those who boast of noble birth.
However clearly gentility reveals itself to others, he who possesses it has no more knowledge on that faultless point than have your hills of the yellow gold they hold within their breasts.
Gentility is a quality which the possessor never seeks to establish as his own by word of mouth; he leaves it to inference and the rule has no exception.
I will not argue how far he was superior to Reynolds in Colour; but in the Air of Dignity and Gentility (in the better Sense) he was surely inferior; it must be so, from the Difference of Character in the two men.
Gentility is a fine thing, not to be undervalued, as I have been trying to explain; but humanity comes before that.
Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.
Miss Jemima, whose gentility sometimes had the advantage of her grammar.
Master Compton was reckoned a very genteel boy, though all his gentility consisted in a pair of buckles so big that they almost crippled him; in a slender emaciated figure, and a look of consummate impudence.
I think (said Hicky,) gentility and morality are inseparable.
The East Seventeenth Street block, with its rows of houses, going down none too debonairly, from gentility to senility, showing a bud here and there.
It was locked against the public, nursemaids from surrounding homes and a few old ladies stiff with gentility holding keys.
It is only when you feel that you have reason for distrusting your own judgment, as to the quality and gentility of the articles, that it is well to be accompanied by a person of more experience.
A sort of shivering gentility had kept her aloof from the rest of her fellow-workers, but it took more than a shivering gentility to stave off Polly.
He was bound, in the presence of his friends, to keep up the assumption of belief in the gentility of Flora, in her heirship to Nevers.
Little half-beaten pockets of gentility and caste lurking here and there, dispersed and chetif, as Annette would say; but nothing ever again firm and coherent to look up to.
He was therefore of opinion that the world was a place of perfect and perpetual gentility and freedom.
It is not uncommon to hear the denizens of the parvenu town indulging in mirth at the expense of the meagre and ill-supported gentility which they observe in their ancient neighbour.
The cousins had ever set before themselves perfect refinement and gentility as the one condition to be devoutly striven for, and the only one in keeping with the Gordon traditions.
She looked at him closely, noting with pride the new air ofgentility even one year at college had given the boy.
The veneer of gentility had underneath it the pure gold of character.
The house was newly papered; and, leaving the livery aside, there was a greet increase ofgentility throughout the whole establishment.
His countenance was somewhat sunburnt; but there was about him such an air of gentility that, even had he been far less good-looking than he really was, it would have been impossible to pass him by with indifference.
Fort Chartres, in its early years, was doubtless not more the headquarters of arbitration and rule than of gentility and etiquette.
With the easy air of gentility and taste which seemed to pervade the inn at Kaskaskia in all its departments, few could have failed to be pleased.
The princess told him she was very pleased that he would be returning so soon, for she trusted his goodness and gentility that he would do everything possible to make Tirant come quickly to free them from the great danger they were in.
When Hippolytus saw the gentility of his relatives, he praised them, and gave them many thanks for their great love.
The hermit began to speak: "Gentle sir, I beg you upon your courtesy and gentility to tell me your name and upon what business you have come to this lonely spot.
Now, a candidate forgentility on terms wholly foreign to his nature, he found the filial bond of old renewed with tenfold intensity in a fresh relationship.
In the moral and religious departments the path of the candidate for gentility was no less strait and narrow.
There is a fine illustration of the effects of preposterous and affectedgentility in the character of Gertrude, in the old comedy of Eastward Hoe, written by Ben Jonson, Marston, and Chapman in conjunction.
Yet this which is the height of gentility and consummation of external distinction and splendour, is, I should say, a vulgar ceremony.
Such are pretty much my notions of gentility and vulgarity.
Gentility is only a more select and artificial kind of vulgarity.
She rises into the air of gentility from the ground of a city life, and flutters about there with all the fantastic delight of a butterfly that has just changed its caterpillar state.
Of all vanities and fopperies, to brag of gentility is the greatest; for what is it they crack so much of, and challenge such superiority, as if they were demigods?
In Germany, except they can prove their gentility by three descents, they scorn to match with them.
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