He did not mind their sowing of wild oats if they were what he called gentlemanly wild oats, and merely got them talked about as gay young dogs, and he was always generous with an extra cheque if they got into difficulties; but he would not have foolhardy, quixotic affairs at all. ❋ Gertrude Page (1897)
So in gentlemanly fashion, we help the ladies up, and preferably, lots of ladies, and we call it what it is, a Party on the Roof. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Almost the exact contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lawrence was, like them, a "natural genius from the provinces", although, unlike them, he soon learned to conceal this in gentlemanly mannerisms. ❋ Richard Holmes (2010)
It may be repugnant to one to have people you know and trust be accused of committing a crime — that may not be done in gentlemanly society — but counting on gentlemanly diffidence among members of the elite assures, at least to me, that the hard questions do not getasked. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A school of four languages in bracing air, if a school with healthy dormitories, and a school of the trained instincts we call gentlemanly, might suit Master Bobby for a trial. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
However the word gentlemanly may be defined, it will not be questioned that the quality which it describes is sympathetic regard for the feelings of others and the manner which evinces it. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)
No more high-head carryin ', gentlemanly airs, and dictionary talk; breaking hosses in ain't wuth a cent to a nigger, he added with a malicious leer. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)
How scornful she had been of his excessive indulgence in all the so-called gentlemanly pleasures of wine, women and gambling. ❋ Westleigh, Sarah (1996)
"Not what one would call a gentlemanly tactic, " Lee observed. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (1960)
Mr. John Rainsfield, the proprietor of the station, was a gentleman of about two-and-thirty years of age; his appearance was what might be called gentlemanly; though, while being perhaps prepossesing, having nothing about it to attract any particular attention. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)
The working man regards him with suspicion because he wears a black coat -- or, with contempt because he doesn't strike; the Government completely ignores him because they know he's too much a slave to convention to do anything but vote along so-called gentlemanly lines. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He cannot exactly be called gentlemanly in his manners, there being a sort of rusticity about him; moreover, he has a habit of squinting one eye, and an awkward carriage of his head; but, withal, a dignity in his large person, and a consciousness of high position and importance, which give him ease and freedom. ❋ Stearns, Frank P (1906)
No, certainly not, and I do not believe there ever will be less of this wickedness while a man practising these abominable vices (in what is called a gentlemanly manner) is suffered to sit at the head of our Government. ❋ Harper, Ida H (1899)
"Well, not exactly what you'd call the gentlemanly sort." ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
I could not help looking at our captain, whom Uncle Dick called gentlemanly, for to my eyes he seemed to be a fierce savage, with his scarlet kerchief bound round his head, beneath which his dark eyes seemed to flash angrily. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The quality which is called gentlemanly is that which, theoretically, and often actually, distinguishes the person who is born in a certain social position. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)
