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Example sentences for "gentleman should"

  • When the Claims to Precedency of Persons of Equal Rank= clash, the claims of a gentleman should be waived in favour of those of a lady, should the persons be of opposite sexes.

  • A gentleman should do the same with his serviette and bread, placing the one across his knees, and the other at his right or left hand.

  • A Gentleman should always be introduced to a Lady=, whatever his rank may be, without reference to her rank, whatever it may be.

  • A gentleman should be the first to get out of a motor-car or carriage, with a view to assisting the ladies to do so.

  • A gentleman should never be rough to a lady, and a man should never be rough to his own guests.

  • And if it were true also that she had fought a duel with one husband, that also ought to be a reason why a gentleman should object to become her second husband.

  • A gentleman should not be urged to stay when he calls.

  • No gentleman should call on a lady unless she asks him to do so, or unless he brings a letter of introduction, or unless he is taken by a lady who is sufficiently intimate to invite him to call.

  • As to the card of the English ambassador, a gentleman should write: "Mr. Algernon Gracie will do himself the honor to accept the invitation of Sir Augustus and Lady Paget.

  • A gentleman should always be so well dressed that his dress shall never be remarked at all.

  • The handwriting of a lady or gentleman should not be commercial or scholastic, but firm and characteristic.

  • No gentleman should leave a lady alone for a moment in a public place of amusement.

  • No gentleman should ever go into the supper-room alone, unless he has seen every lady enter before him.

  • A gentleman should, in the evening, or whenever her safety, comfort or convenience seems to require it, offer a lady companion his arm.

  • A gentleman should, on no account, leave the lady's side from the beginning to the close of the performance.

  • A gentleman should not be introduced to a lady, unless her permission has been previously obtained, and no one should ever be introduced into the house of a friend, except permission is first granted.

  • No gentleman should venture to bow to a lady upon the strength of a ball-room introduction, unless she does him the honour to recognize him first.

  • No gentleman should accept an invitation to a ball if he does not dance.

  • A gentleman should always be so well dressed that his dress shall never be observed at all.

  • A gentleman should do more than not think of it.

  • She felt that he was not treating her as a gentleman should treat a lady, and certainly not as the husband of her late friend should have treated the friend of his late wife.

  • A gentleman should be allowed to express his feelings and to explain his position.

  • Under these circumstances a gentleman should be very careful not to introduce a youth whom he knows nothing about to a lady of his acquaintance--or at least he should ask her first.

  • In asking a lady to go to supper, a gentleman should say "Will you go to supper with me?

  • Perhaps it has been understood all along that the admirable and just characteristics of a gentleman should of necessity be those also of a lady, with the charm of womanhood combined.

  • But there again, was he quite sure that he could bow as a gentleman should?

  • The first difficulty is to know precisely what a gentleman should be.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beg you; consider the; exactly the same manner; fresh proof; gentleman born; gentleman commoner; gentleman friend; gentleman from; gentleman like; gentleman named; gentleman should; going through; good mother; immediately followed; its owner; least one; musical expression; sexual gratification; should you; that with; thing cannot; this crisis; took much; when finished; whole world; you keep