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Example sentences for "young gentleman"

  • Ah, you are shifting your ground, young gentleman.

  • It is a wiser step than one would always expect from a young gentleman of your years.

  • My Lord,--This is to bring to your notice my namesake and cousin, David Balfour Esquire of Shaws, a young gentleman of unblemished descent and good estate.

  • It was not so when the sword was in the scale, young gentleman, and the virtues of the soldier might sustain themselves.

  • And now that I call to mind, there was a young gentleman, your namesake, that marched surgeon in the year '45 with my battalion.

  • I am sorry, young gentleman," answered the stranger, "that you have any reason to be so unhappy at your years.

  • I was introduced by the aunt, the mistress of the house, to a young gentleman in Austrian uniform who sat beside me.

  • I spent two hours in going over the magnificent establishment, the owner himself shewing it me, and then I went back to dinner and called for my young gentleman.

  • A young gentleman, as fair as love, came up to me, and with easy politeness asked me why I had refused an ice.

  • Young gentleman, I am extremely sorry that this painful duty has fallen to my lot.

  • It could not be called a cheerful spot, even for a composer absorbed in beloved toil; how much less for a young gentleman haunted by alarms and awaiting the arrival of a corpse!

  • A young gentleman, who had passed the trio and suddenly started and turned back, at this moment laid a heavy hand on Michael's shoulder.

  • In those days 'twas far better for a young gentleman of any pretensions to remain at home than go to London and be denied that inner sanctuary,--the younger club at Almack's.

  • Mother, this is Mr. Richard Carvell heir to Carvel Hall in Maryland,--a young gentleman whom I have had the honour to rescue from a slaver.

  • Young gentleman," he begged, "pray do not disturb yourself.

  • There is a young gentleman here to see you, sir," he announced.

  • I struck a light, lighted the candle, took my young gentleman by the hand and led him quietly into an adjoining dressing-room with the shutters firmly fastened, and nothing he could break.

  • Shut up a young gentleman and a young peasant in a room; the former will have upset and smashed everything before the latter has stirred from his place.

  • I would not make an embroiderer, a gilder, a polisher of him, like Locke's young gentleman.

  • As I have not the honour of educating "A young gentleman," I shall take care not to follow his example.

  • By this time, young gentleman, you may perceive that I have it in my power to be a valuable correspondent, and that it will be to your interest to deserve my confidence.

  • A young gentleman may be over-careful of himself, or he may be under-careful of himself.

  • You are a young gentleman to be smiled on, Mr. Copperfull, and you must learn your walue, sir.

  • He was rather a shallow sort of young gentleman, I thought, with a handsome face, a rapid utterance, and a confident, bold air.

  • My respectful compliments to Mrs. Mervyn, and I will trust you, though you boast to be so lively a young gentleman, to kiss Julia for me.

  • But you must know the Colonel is always himself in the way to pay Miss Bertram those attentions which afford the best indirect opportunities for a young gentleman in Hazlewood's situation.

  • There is no young gentleman of these parts, who might be in rank or fortune a match for Miss Julia, that I think at all likely to play such a character.

  • It is ardour that we need in the Service, young gentleman," said he.

  • But do not imagine that it is a light service which you undertake, young gentleman, when you enter His Majesty's Navy.

  • You can see, young gentleman, that not a scrap of the ardour with which I serve my country has been shot away.

  • He contented himself with instructing a young gentleman, aged about fifteen, to take his pony and ride over to a distant cathedral town, which was honored by the abode of a virtuous though drunken surveyor.


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