It never occurred to him to doubt me, for a Highlander is used to see great gentlefolk in great poverty; but as he had no estate of his own, my words nettled a very childish vanity he had.
Mavis saw with satisfaction that thegentlefolk did not seemed to be huffed.
So no danger was too big for William Dale to face; his courage became a byword; gentlefolk and peasants alike admired and wondered.
As you live, say so, that these gentlefolk may not take me for some lying chatterer.
It had just the class of trade that I liked--principally gentlefolk taking their pleasure in a holiday on the river.
The fact of the case is that these gentlefolk never ought to touch business at all.
Yes, I felt like one of the gentlefolk that afternoon--drinking champagne wine and sitting in a motor-car.
It is more than I have the right to ask," I replied; "but among gentlefolkthese generous sentiments are natural.
So it was a case of 'Compliments fly when gentlefolk meet.
Of course, they might be more grandly lodged by the rich and the great--gentlefolk in their own station.
But there are so few gentlefolk in the neighbourhood, and of course people do make marriages which they wouldn’t have dreamed of twenty years ago.
The fact is gentlefolk are gentlefolk, and they must stand by one another in these days of pork-butchers and furniture people.
You can mix with any gentlefolk you can find to mix with.
It's only that she likes gentlefolk and is fit to mix with them; and after all, Jo, I'm nothing but a pore common man.
At this point, again, the experience of the Victorian peace and the functioning of its gentlefolk come in to indicate what may fairly be hoped for in this way under this prospective régime of peace at large.
But, to cover loose ends and vagrant cases, the gentlefolk may for the purpose be credited with so high a percentage of the total population.
It is scarcely conceivable that this could have been done in a more unobtrusively efficient manner, or with a more austerely virtuous conviction of well-doing, than by the gentlefolk bred of the Victorian peace.
Still, his preconceived notions of the wisdom and beneficence of his gentlefolk would presumably hinder his seeing the matter in that reasonable light.
The place of gentlefolk in the economy of Nature is tracelessly to consume the community's net product, and in doing so to set a standard of decent expenditure for the others emulatively to work up to as near as may be.
The characteristic feature to which attention naturally turns at this suggestion is the tranquility that has marked that body of gentlefolk and their code of clean and honest living.
There can be little doubt but the high example of the Victorian gentlefolk has had much to do with stabilising the animus of the British common man on lines of integrity and fair play.
Some slight, but after all inconsequential, difference there may be, but such difference as there is, if any, rather counts against the gentlefolk as keepers of the cultural advance.
Perhaps he only waited until the other gentlefolk should be gone.
The gold piece lay within her brown fingers a thought too lightly, for as she stepped back from the row of gentlefolk it slid from her hand to the ground.
And there was a great number of barons and of gentlefolk from many parts, and, with right goodwill, I did honour to each one according to his rank.
A class of intelligent, free gentlefolk is indeed evident in history whenever there is a record of bold philosophy or effective scientific advances.
Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others.
Three of these foreigners, Messieurs Pinchieu, Noirmont de la Neuville, and La Tours, seem to have made many friends in the town, and to have been the recipients of much hospitality on the part of the gentlefolk of Edenton.
Hating is a thing that gentlefolk don't do--but gentlefolk don't live up here.
It is because, as I said before, gentlefolk and farmers have left off joining or taking any interest in them.
In fact, the only reason why this is not the case still, is that gentlefolk and farmers have taken to other amusements, and have, as usual, forgotten the poor.
She ceased to fear her meeting with the bluegrass gentlefolk and looked forward to it with real confidence and pleasure.
Why should we not clothe ourselves like gentlefolk as well as our kindred and friends at home?
The three gentlefolkand their mad conductress gazed from out the shadow and at a safe distance.
But it was never reasonable that gentlefolk should cheat at their dicing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentlefolk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
