By his side a milder form was sometimes to be seen; the pensive gentility of Samuel Salt.

Sir George Templemore, if I understand him, wishes to know if we estimate gentility by streets, and quality by squares.

In sock or buskin there was an air of swaggering gentility about Jack Palmer.

He was no longer the bearded desperado Jack had seen in the mêlée at Rosedalethere was a certain distinction in the poise of the head, an inborn gentility in the impassive contemplation with which he met the furtive scrutiny of the curious visitors.

All these blocks, ranges, and detached villas are adorned with the finest and most aristocratic names that I have found anywhere in England, except, perhaps, in Bath, which is the great metropolis of that second-class gentility with which watering-places are chiefly populated.

In addition, he was well preserved and singularly handsome, besides having an air that set all pretending gentility at defiance.

It was time now to leave the scene, so Charley and I went to look for our gig (evidence of gentility from the time of Thurtell and Hunt's trial for the murder of Mr. Weare).

Indeed, the American has a better gentility than common, as, besides his own, he may take root in that of Europe.

Gentility without ability I do despise; but where 't'a'n't so, 't'a'n't no matter; but I'xpect it don't ensure the faowls none, doos it?"

'That is my father, Sir Robert, in profile,' and a vulgar face in profile is always seen at its vulgarest; and the nex-retroussé, the coarse mouth, the double chin, are most forcibly exhibited in this limning by Wright; who did not, like Reynolds, or like Lawrence, cast a nuance of gentility over every subject of his pencil.

The ruinous old meeting-house was never so radiant with station and gentility as on that morning.