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Example sentences for "gentlewoman"

Lexicographically close words:
gentlenesse; gentlenesses; gentler; gentles; gentlest; gentlewomen; gentlie; gentling; gently; gentrie
  1. And the said young gentlewoman of her own accord said openly: 'Now, God be praised!

  2. Each book has its little romance, and the "Poet" introduces a poor gentlewoman whose story interests us quite as much as does that of the two lovers.

  3. She was, as I had supposed, a gentlewoman whom a change of circumstances had brought down from her high estate.

  4. But knowing it was below a gentlewoman to wrangle, she resolved upon an expedient to save decorum, and wear her dear to her point at the same time.

  5. I had the honour the other day of a visit from a gentlewoman (a stranger to me) who seemed to be about thirty.

  6. A gentlewoman who has a very delicate ear, wants a maid who can whisper, and help her in the government of her family.

  7. If a little gentlewoman could stare, it might be said that Miss Alicia stared at him.

  8. London--no one but herself or an elderly gentlewoman of her type could have told any one the nature of her thoughts of London.

  9. Finely restrained little elderly gentlewoman as she was, she openly broke down under it.

  10. This fur never cost less than five crowns the ell; besides, this young gentlewoman is a wife; or ought to be.

  11. The young gentlewoman rose and put her arms round Margaret's neck and kissed her.

  12. A gentlewoman passing fair Did on this lady wait; With bravest dames she might compare; Her beauty was compleat.

  13. The extract is astringent, and has been used in tanning, and as a substitute for cinchona bark.

  14. From quince flesh or pulp and sugar, equal parts; or from the juice (miva cydoniorum, gelatina c.

  15. The film of colour in the trough may be as thin as possible; and if any remains after the marbling, it may be taken off by applying paper to it before you prepare for marbling again.

  16. But as yet no gentlewoman at all had been sent out for political reasons.

  17. This young gentlewoman who is now with your cousin will presently fall into melancholy and die.

  18. There will be, I am told, more than one gentlewoman on board that ship.

  19. Thus was I, a gentlewoman born, sold in the Island of Barbadoes for a slave.

  20. This useful gentlewoman upon whose protection I now threw myself, having her reasons of state, respecting Mr. H.

  21. Good Mr. Conjurer, stand by--and don't fright the Gentlewoman with your elegant Profundities.

  22. Gentlewoman has been at Hot-Cockles without her Husband, and he's Horn-mad upon't.

  23. But the business is this, Sir--I have a great mind to lie with this young Gentlewoman to Night, but she swears if I do, the Parson of the Parish shall know it.

  24. There's a gentlewoman i' th' bower to see thee.

  25. It was formerly known by the name of "the Gentlewoman of Istria.

  26. So good-bye to "the Gentlewoman of Istria," lying placidly asleep by the blue waters of the Adriatic.

  27. No little affectations marred it, and the cordial sweetness of her manner was more charming than the new beauty or the old grace, for it stamped her at once with the unmistakable sign of the true gentlewoman she had hoped to become.

  28. You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how.

  29. As I did not then know Mr Faulkland was returned to England, I should not have suspected it was he himself who had called, if his housekeeper (that gentlewoman in whose care he left me) had not come to me from him.

  30. He told him, in his own blunt way, that he came to speak to him in behalf of a poor young gentlewoman that was his (Sir William's) relation.

  31. I had given the gentlewoman instructions not to tell any stranger where I lodged.

  32. The lady too plainly perceived that her waiting-gentlewoman knew more than she would willingly have had her acquainted with; and this she imputed to Joseph's having discovered to her what passed at the first interview.

  33. The prudent waiting-gentlewoman had duly weighed the whole matter, and found, on mature deliberation, that a good place in possession was better than one in expectation.

  34. Slipslop returned, "Some people kept no servants to converse with; for her part, she thanked Heaven she lived in a family where there were a great many, and had more under her own command than any paultry little gentlewoman in the kingdom.

  35. She was a maiden gentlewoman of about forty-five years of age, who, having made a small slip in her youth, had continued a good maid ever since.

  36. Wherefore I say, this gentlewoman being laid in her grave, and all her fat ones gone down to the sides of the pit, these kings will change their mind, and fall in love with the true and chaste matron, and with Christ her Lord.

  37. So, just as you came up, the gentlewoman went her way.

  38. She lost, as a gentlewoman should lose, came like a trump "to book," and met her engagements honourably.

  39. Where can that mysterious gentlewoman be?

  40. After thus sealing my pardon, the worthy gentlewoman sailed out of the apartment, accompanied by her handmaid Ruth.

  41. But the mother of the gentlewoman would not that hir daughter should be defloured: and therefore in the darke of the night brought one of hir maidseruants, and laid hir in the kings bed, she being both faire, proper, and pleasant.

  42. This gentlewoman left a notable example behind hir of despising fleshlie plesure, for bearing hir husband one child, and sore handled before she could be deliuered, [Sidenote: The notable saieng of Elfleda.

  43. But Agnes herself, who knew the hardships of London life and had very special knowledge of the extreme difficulty the indigent gentlewoman experienced in finding employment, never closed an eye.

  44. But when they came to the poor gentlewoman in the cabin, who for several days had continued without food, giving what she had to her son, they found her as it were in the arms of death.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentlewoman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amah; chambermaid; chaperon; companion; cook; dame; dowager; duenna; gentlewoman; girl; handmaid; lady; lass; maid; matron; noble; nursemaid; soubrette; squaw; wench; woman