Carry the younggentlewomen up to their chambers, and let Rhoda wait on them.
Before these young gentlewomen come, Rhoda, I want a word with you.
The four gentlemen of the best families and fortunes will wait on the gentlewomen to Berkeley: that is, Mr Otway, Mr Seymour, my nephew Mr George Merton, and Mr Welles.
I shall not write to him while these young gentlewomen are here, but directly they are gone: yet I wish to give you time to become used to it, and I name it thus early.
The time that these young gentlewomen are here will be enough to think over the matter.
I'm not going to have Molly teasing about the old gentlewomen down yonder.
Now, my dear, you may go and divert yourself; we will not talk of this matter again till the young gentlewomen have ended their visit.
School teaching was plainly out of the question, since two gentlewomen could not exist on a hundred and ten pounds a year.
It is hard to think that Roman gentlewomen and Spanish ladies would go to see such sights, whatever men may do.
And yet she refuses Harry Temple, a pretty fellow, though studious, and a man whom any of us, gentlewomen born, would be glad to encourage.
The poor prisoners were allowed to beg, but how could poor gentlewomen like my guardians bear to beg for daily bread?
It seemed to me then, being ignorant of the extreme wickedness of men, a grievous thing that gentlewomencannot go whithersoever they please without the protection of a man.
What a strange world was this of London, in which gentlewomen had their lodging in so foul a place and starved on bread and water!
To all that see you as you are, your garb speaks you gentlewomen, and gentlewomenbe not wont to be about, in especial unattended, at this hour of the night.
The gentlewomen be gone belike, and Osmund with them.
Were you likewise busied in preparing the gentlewomen for their journey?
She kneeled for it, as did young Isabel and Dame Elenore and the two gentlewomen and the young knight and Gilbert the page.
It was also in some sort a school of nursing where, whatever wider scope might afterwards be attainable, gentlewomen could serve an apprenticeship to the calling.
The place in question, already briefly described in one of her letters to Madame Mohl, was that of Superintendent of an "Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness.
This institution had been founded a few years before, at 8 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, to give medical assistance and a home to sick governesses and other gentlewomen of narrow means.
It was the more remarkable because many of the Deaconesses had been only peasants--none weregentlewomen (when I was there).
With distressed gentlewomen she was a favourite prey.
No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge 30 and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.
A custom prevailed for these young gentlewomen to wear white veils, to distinguish them from professed nuns, who wore black, which implies that all the pupils were resident in the convents.
And now the world is altered; young gentlewomen learn to be bold, talk loud and more than comes to their share, think it disparagement for them to know what belongs to good housewifery or to practise it.
Gentlewomen of good position were accustomed, in the seventeenth century, to live in a simple way, within the four walls of their home, occupied with domestic affairs.
And so there lived some colour in your cheek, There is not one among my gentlewomen Were fit to wear your slipper for a glove.
But oh, do thou have mercy upon me, for I must say that which damsels and gentlewomen are not used to say.
But with a cry Elaine fell to the ground in a swoon, and her gentlewomen bore her into her chamber and sorrowed over her.
Like other gentlewomen of her time and latitude, she was well versed in the English classics and in translations from the Latin and Greek.
The Bazaar was opened by Royalty, and Mr. Beake must have cleared a large sum for the Distressed Gentlewomen as well as advertised his paper and juggled himself and wife into Society for once at any rate.
The gentlewomen did fall a tearing and crying that the Masse was entered among them and Baal in the Church.
To the Jacobite gentlewomen of Edinburgh we owe many of our best-known Scottish songs.
I will read over my gentlewomen first; my master Dee will teach me if I say amiss.
France, the ladies and gentlewomen of the country laid before the king grievous complaints of their sufferings from powerful lords, and lamented that gallantry was so much degenerated, that no knights and squires had attempted to defend them.
In sum, the gentlewomen put in their defences, showing the grounds they went upon, and constituted their attorney for the prosecuting of the cause.
It was indicative of her superior rank, and was especially adhered to by gentlewomen who married out of their station, as a sign of their good birth and gentle breeding.
She had not been one of those trifling and trivanting gentlewomen that pull diseases on to their pates with drums and routs, and late hours, and hot rooms, and carding, and distilled waters.
It is rather sad to think that, at this crisis in the history of pigments, the Vertuous Ladyes and Gentlewomen cannot read the libellus of Wye Waltonstall, who did so dearly love pigments.
Then with a howl the dog disappeared, and Agnes told the gentlewomen that she could not help the lady, "in respect that her prayer stopped, and that she was sorry for it.
When the young gentlewomen descended to the garden, the dog appeared suddenly out of the well and terrified them.
And when she saw him there she swooned thrice, that all the ladies and gentlewomen had work enough to hold the Queen up.
So when she might speak she called the ladies and gentlewomen to her and said, Ye marvel, fair ladies, why I make this cheer.
The gentlewomen with whom Dorothy was, by her position in the household, associated, were three in number.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentlewomen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
