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gentleman

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gentleman
Brit History a man of gentle birth, who was entitled to bear arms, ranking above a yeoman in social position


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Beside the little old gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace and doing exactly as he pleased with the whole concern.
An elderly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella.
My fertile pencil has delineated the characters I met with, at that period of my life, with a force and distinctness which my pen cannot hope to rival--has portrayed them all more or less prominently, with the one solitary exception of a prisoner called Gentleman Jones.
 
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