From Frankfort he addressed three letters (printed at Basel) to King Sigismund, Augustus, and the Polish gentry and people, urging the conversion of Poland to Protestantism.
Under the Tudors the county prospered; the parliamentary boroughs once more began to return members, the towns increased in size, many halls were built by the gentry and trade increased.
These gentry are hostile, he urges, to the presence of progressive Negroes on the soil of the tropics!
Whatever bitterness exists is in the minds of those gentry who would like to be dominant on the cheap condition of showing a simple bodily accident erected by themselves into an evidence and proof of superiority.
I have hardly seen him, for he is such a morose personage that he always hides when any of the gentry approach his hut.
Miss Emery, of Petersfield, was quite good enough for the landed gentry of this quiet region.
Many of the resident gentry in Boston and its neighbourhood, and I think I am not mistaken in adding, a large majority of those who are attached to the liberal professions there, have been educated at this same school.
Bloomsbury learned it earlier, and before that it was familiar in Soho--away off in the old days when the ruffling gentry of Golden Square fought for the chance of buying ingenious John Law's South Sea scrip.
The whole nobility and gentry was put to about it, and nothing else was talked of at dinner.
It is only just to the rest of the corporation and to the gentry of the place to state, that to a man they felt strongly that an unwarrantable insult had been offered to him.
And what a crowd of the county nobility and the gentry were invited to the Corporation banquets in those old days.
But, when dotting down the names of some of the neighbouring gentry who used to look in upon us some forty odd years ago, we must not forget to recall honest John Watkins, “the Squire” of Ditton.
Perhaps--it flashed upon him--the yacht's gentry will hear I stood up for them.
Our gentry are tired of being stuck in the mud and wish for assistance.
Arabs say, and the gentry who once drove slaves or traded ivory refuse to believe that the day of lawlessness is gone forever.
McHenry can team 'em in the stretch like few men, and Gentry was on his tiptoes but holding his place.
At the half Gentry made a skip, but recovered quick and still held the pole in the upper turn.
Becky were neck and neck, with Gentry and Patchen at their throat-latch.
And equal shame, that honest laborious tradesmen should be obstructed in crossing the public streets, by the gilt chariots of vagabond gamesters; who now infest the land, and brave even our nobility and gentry with their own money.
Men in office, the wealthy, and above all, those who laid claim to good descent, were the gentry in the country.
Unlike many of the gentry of his time, Colonel Lee was a thorough-going patriot.
If once our Gentry and Nobility wou'd set us fair Examples of Frugality and Activity, we shou'd soon reform, but alas!
For Mr. Halifax, a prosperous man now, drove daily to and from his mills, in as tasteful an equipage as any of the country gentry between here and Enderley.
Some day we will take our place, and so shall our children, with anygentry in the land.
Somehow the note on the desk did not seem to fit any one of the gentry whom I could see so distinctly from my window.
It was probably worth five thousand dollars to him to see three gentry of this pattern so much put about.
On the other hand it was urged with great force that to give these privileges to the uneducated mass but to continue the disabilities of the Roman Catholic gentry by not allowing them to sit in Parliament was absurd.
The famine found most of the resident gentry of Ireland on the brink of ruin.
The magistrates were powerless; the classes who had supported the gentry during the Volunteer Movement were amongst the disaffected.
The gentryliving in London, and the dayly concourse of servants out of the country to London, makes servants' wages deare in the countrey, and makes scarcity of labourers.
I wonder is it to be putting humps on themselves the gentry has them things down on top o' them!
He says he's supplying the gentry for twenty-five years, and he was never asked to do the like of a nasty thing like that!
Hence it is, that I extremely lament the little relish the gentry of this nation have at present for the just and noble representations in some of our tragedies.
One wants to be the secretary, that he may display his power of fine writing when he asks the resident nobility and gentry for their subscriptions, and draws up the final report for the press.
We see this kind of thing especially in the families of the poorer class of gentry in the country.
