gentleman-like

Example Sentences

• "Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie."
• "[…] and ſo wee wept: and there was the firſt Gentleman-like teares that euer we ſhed."
• "I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty."
• "“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.”"