The young woman had been cryingI could see that at a glancebut Sir Horace looked dignified and the perfect gentlemanlike he always was.

Then the kind hostess conducted her guests to snug apartments blazing with cheerful fires, and after some conversation with the fine young ladies of the house, the great dinner bell having rung, the family assembled at dinner, at which meal Rawdon junior was placed by his aunt, and exhibited not only a fine appetite, but a gentlemanlike behaviour.

Faith, sir, you must pardon me: it is my ordinary custom to be too studious; my mistress hath told me of it often, and I find it to hurt my ordinary discourse: but say, sweet sir, do ye affect the most gentlemanlike game of hunting? ACADEMICO.

Come, lads; this wine whets your resolution in our design: it's a needy world with subtle spirits; and there's a gentlemanlike kind of begging, that may beseem poets in this age.

Abstracted from all consideration of the profundity of criticism that is displayed, no man can avoid being struck with the humour and pleasantry in which they are conceived, or the elegant and gentlemanlike language in which they are couched.

He was so gentlemanlike, and spoke in so low a tone of voice!

He likewise thought Lord Farnham very gentlemanlike, and Lord Rolle more violent than any.

There is an end of all moral and gentlemanlike feeling if it be not understood that a man's person is sacred in the presence of his wife.

The causes are, his high character for probity, honour, and talents; his fine countenance; the benevolent interest he took in the concerns of all his friends; his simple and gentlemanlike manners; his untimely death.'

In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.

Such a gentlemanlike porker too!

My Dear Scott, A very excellent and gentlemanlike manalbeit a booksellerMurray, of Fleet Street, is willing to give for our joint "Lives of the Poets," on the plan we proposed to the trade a twelvemonth ago, a thousand pounds.

He only asked if Lady Lesbia's answer was finaland on being told that it was so, he dismissed the subject in the easiest manner, and with a gentlemanlike placidity which very much astonished the lady.

'Yes,' said Mr. Smithson, with his gentlemanlike drawl, 'Spanish America and the West Indies are delightful places to talk about.

He is not content with a little gentlemanlike game of whist or écarté, but he must needs revive for his especial use and behoof the dangerous and well-nigh forgotten pharaoh.

Sir Walter Scott describes him as "the savage and ferocious Pickle, who, besides his gross and base brutality towards Emilia, besides his ingratitude towards his uncle, and the savage propensity which he shows in the pleasure he takes to torment others by practical jokes, exhibits a low and un-gentlemanlike way of thinking, only one degree higher than that of Roderick Random."

I forget if I have previously narrated the following instance of gentlemanlike conduct.

Sir Walter Scott says playfully, "I have my quarters and emblazonments free of all stain but Border Theft and High Treason, which I hope are gentlemanlike crimes"

They are not a gentlemanlike people, and I am given to understand that they are generally dishonest in all their dealings.

They are most gentlemanlike men, and will be shocked at such conduct as this from the Squire of Buston.

But of the rest of him, except that he was a tallish, well-made man, dressed inas far as I could see thingsa gentlemanlike fashion in grey tweeds, I could see nothing.

And now that I saw him in a stronger light, I found that he was a strongly built, well-made man of about Mr. Gilverthwaite's agesay, just over sixty years or so,dressed in a gentlemanlike fashion, and wearing good boots and linen and a tweed suit of the sort affected by tourists.

Since Miss Wilkeson had been an inmate of that house, she had seen Wesley Tiffles perhaps a dozen times, in the entry or on the doorsteps, and had been impressed with his gentlemanlike air, his quick black eyes, and his deferential manner toward her.

In the cases where we have been accustomed to think that his passions led him into crime, he either displayed the strictest virtue, or, at most, sinned in so gentlemanlike a manner, with so much kindness and generosity, as hardly to sin at all.

" The Alderman was recalled from a profound stupor, by this gentlemanlike and considerate proposal.