12 Adjectives to Describe « gentlewoman »

You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how.

said the republican Miss Crawley; upon which the companion meekly said "that she hoped there could be no harm in a lady of rank taking notice of a poor gentlewoman," and she put away this card in her work-box amongst her most cherished personal treasures.

Laughing so shrilly that all the market-place could hear her, the weird old gentlewoman took her departure.

She gave her also a waiting gentlewoman to attend her and to give her into the bridegroom's hands; and they were each to have a horse for the journey, and the Princess's horse was named Falada, and he could speak.

“The lady who keeps it is a reduced gentlewoman,” explained Miss Barry. “

She busied herself in gentle offices and quiet duties; if she never said brilliant things, she never spoke or thought unkind ones; guileless and artless, loving and pure, indeed how could our poor little Amelia be other than a real gentlewoman!

In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to havecost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into thetrough, the governess who attended Glumdalclitch very officiouslylifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slipthrough her fingers, and should infallibly have fallen down fortyfeet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I hadnot been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the goodgentlewoman’s stomacher; the head of the pin passing between myshirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by themiddle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.

Among the rest, I wasmuch diverted with a little old treatise, which always lay inGlumdalclitch’s bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a graveelderly gentlewoman, who dealt in writings of morality anddevotion.

Any relatives I have are in homes for decayed gentlewomen!

In his essay on style De Quincey says that the best English is to be found in the letters of the cultivated gentlewoman, because she has read only a few good books and has not been corrupted by the style of newspapers and the jargon of street, market-place, and assembly hall.

Here also is showed Chaucer’s match with a certain gentlewoman, who, although she was a stranger, was, notwithstanding, so well liked and loved of the Lady Blanche and her Lord, as Chaucer himself also was, that gladly they concluded a marriage between them.”

The librarian gave me a note of introduction to the curator of the Society, a Miss Anna Tilton, who lived nearby, and after a brief explanation that ancient gentlewoman was kind enough to pilot me into the closed building, since the hour was not outrageously late.