Gentry

Examples

• So, if he will do me the honour to breakfast with me to-morrow, we will go over the names of these missing gentry. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They were Briarfield gentry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Do you talk in that familiar manner of one of the landed gentry of England? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They were sent up by the minor gentry, freeholders and village elders of their districts as early as 1254, two knights from each shire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These latter gentry stood outside--stood quietly by their long line of vehicles and said never a word. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I wish I could say the same of the gentry--detestable word, but I suppose I must use it--of the gentry in the neighbourhood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Why, said Brummell to several of these half-and-half sort of gentry, have not I called you Dick, Tom, and John, you rogues? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• That's the mistaken kindness of the gentry here,' said Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• True,' said Dodson, 'I dare say you have been annoyed in the Fleet; there are some odd gentry there. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The young people, the Etonians, and children of the neighbouring gentry, held a mock fair, to which all the country people were invited. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These are the gentry that named the Lake. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He broke off acquaintance with all the gentry, and shut himself up like a hermit at the Hall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Hill knows all these gentry, and he will give a name to him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Ludwig