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Example sentences for "gentlefolks"

Lexicographically close words:
gentis; gentium; gentle; gentled; gentlefolk; gentleman; gentlemanlike; gentlemanliness; gentlemanly; gentlemans
  1. Nearly every one of these young fellows was the younger son of gentlefolks in England.

  2. The people who run the place are most respectable, in fact they are gentlefolks who have been compelled to let rooms owing to reduced circumstances.

  3. Cut and longtail, all, gentlefolks and others, as they might come.

  4. Why it's two thousand pound that the winner gets by the great race at Newmarket, and there's all the gentlefolks ready to give their ears for it.

  5. All gentlefolks have their proper rules of behaviour.

  6. Gentlefolks has so much call for money, as none of us know nothing of.

  7. You see that these gentlefolks have so much to think of, and are not in the habit of troubling their heads much as to what becomes of a poor peasant girl, after the whim which may have led them to patronize her has once passed over.

  8. But we're all Gentlefolks here, I trow; and Captain Night's the Marquis of Aylesbury Jail.

  9. She had company there, and card-assemblies, and preachers in plenty; and set up her little throne there, to which the gentlefolks of the province were welcome to come and bow.

  10. The gentlefolks in the great pew were very much enlivened by the discourse.

  11. Our gentlefolks had come in numbers to Williamsburg; and a great number of them proposed to treat her Excellency, the Governor's lady, to a ball, when the news reached us of the Boston Port Bill.

  12. What was it to her what gentlefolks ate or drank, providing they paid for it honestly?

  13. Is it possible, that in the past century, gentlefolks of the first rank (as I read lately in a lecture on George II.

  14. Grave burghers and gentlefolks come in on a visit.

  15. You fine gentlefolks can know what the poor suffer; ye talk and ye talk, but ye never assist.

  16. Begging your honour's pardon, I thinks gentlefolks what lives only with gentlefolks, and call themselves men of the world, be often no wiser nor Pagan creturs, and live in a gentile darkness.

  17. The sense of this motto would rather befit the present agricultural occupants of the house than the idle gentlefolks who built and formerly inhabited it.

  18. Thus its mouth is full of kitchen talk, which flows out before the gentlefolks with the queerest effect.

  19. Indeed it was currently reported that her school was part of a deep and nefarious scheme of the gentlefolks for reducing the poor-rates by enticing the children, and then shipping them off to foreign parts from Bristol.

  20. For we could all read long before young gentlefolks nowadays can say their letters.

  21. Gentlefolks would ax your help, wouldn't they?

  22. You to get up afore this rally o' gentlefolks an' forbid my holy banns, you wrinkled, crinkled, baggering auld lizard!

  23. I told her the gentlefolks would be sure not to like'em.

  24. Let the gentlefolks get out of their trouble by themselves.

  25. And she made a little courtesy like a well-trained nurse, who has already served with gentlefolks and knows how to behave.

  26. You being a gentleman's son, and having had a par and a mar, it was no more than one might expect, for gentlefolks to take notice of you.

  27. Tis passing strange how these gentlefolks do know their own class.

  28. Always telling me that gentlefolks hadn't got no notion of fair play with the like of us, but held us like the dirt to be trampled on!

  29. Do you think, because I am a governess, I have not as much sense, and feeling, and good breeding as you gentlefolks in Hampshire?

  30. If we are gentlefolks they will put hatchments over our late domicile, with gilt cherubim, and mottoes stating that there is "Quiet in Heaven.

  31. The gentlefolks at Monksmoor were strangers to her.

  32. Gentlefolks may have their whims and fancies.

  33. People came to see her from all the country round--gentlefolks among them.

  34. There are none but gentlefolks here--men true to the Commonwealth.

  35. The life of a shepherd, sir, is perhaps not exactly what you and some other gentlefolks think.

  36. Wants to hear discourse of poor man, that he may learn from it poor man’s little ways and infirmities, and mark them down in one small, little book to serve for fun to Lord Palmerston and the other great gentlefolks in London.

  37. I am sure I have a right to say so, for many is the good crown I have got by showing gentlefolks like yourself to the top of him.

  38. Were all the gentlefolks who come here to see the sources like you, we should indeed feel no want in these hills of such a gentleman as is spoken of in the pennillion.

  39. Very poor, I wonder any gentlefolks come to look at it.

  40. Something, sir; but the hen Gipsiaid were gentlefolks in comparison.

  41. Ah, you are a gentleman—gentlefolks always find it easier to learn to read a foreign lingo than to speak it, but it’s quite the contrary with we poor folks.

  42. And not around the gentlefolks themselves, but around the Jews that hovered around the gentlefolks who were with the overlord.

  43. That is, not the overlord himself, but the gentlefolks that were with the overlord.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentlefolks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.