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    1. Half the gentry were


    2. One of the winning pictures for the New York Mets that year was an Arizona State pitcher by the name of Curt Gentry, a very good pitcher


    3. This is one game where Arizona did not win but even as a loyal University of Arizona fan, I have to applaud Curt Gentry for that game


    4. And guess what? Curt Gentry pitched the entire game for Arizona State, all 15 innings, again that's one of the greatest pitching performances I have seen in my life and Curt was pitching just as good in the 15th inning as he was in the first inning


    5. When the Scotch parliament was no longer to be assembled in it, when it ceased to be the necessary residence of the principal nobility and gentry of Scotland, it became a city of some trade and industry


    6. But where the sovereign is himself the general, and the principal nobility and gentry of the country the chief officers of the army ; where the military force is placed under the command of those who have the greatest interest in the support of the civil authority, because they have themselves the greatest share of that authority, a standing army can never be dangerous to liberty


    7. Under such a government, the clergy naturally endeavour to recommend themselves to the sovereign, to the court, and to the nobility and gentry of the country, by whose influence they chiefly expect to obtain preferment


    8. Mixing with the country gentry


    9. Throughout the Ukraine the Polish gentry was hunted down, flayed and burnt alive,


    10. We’re not really gentry as my grandfather bought the place from an impoverished laird after he came back from Africa

    11. “Hang on – Kim Gentry? Where have I heard that name? Oh yes – wasn’t she the one they laid the explosion on?”


    12. You’ll know how I telt you that I’d not long been over from the old country when I went to work for a rich feed merchant whose wife, a dear saintly woman, was sick with the fever and needed someone to take care of the big old house they had with more rooms than they could use, just like the places of the gentry back home


    13. Cynthia was pissed off as hell! She gave Officer Gentry a


    14. Though Feltus found it unusual that any man of landed gentry would speak of his wealth, an act considered inappropriate for that social elite, he said nothing about the inconsistency of the remark


    15. She sifts right from wrong in a realm where the villains were the local gentry and the heroes were outlaws


    16. bell, donated by an English gentleman, a member of the gentry


    17. Compounding his frustration on the Islamic front, the Meccan gentry looked at Muhammad with suspicion, and treated him with disdain


    18. After all, as a member of the landed gentry he was surely a wealthy man


    19. At all times, in spite of the care and guidance it had had from the clergy and gentry, the account of a murder gave Symford more pure pleasure than any other form of entertainment; and now here was one, not at second-hand, not to be viewed through the cooling medium of print and pictures, but in its midst, before its eyes, at its very doors


    20. Emory said the gentry led the hunts

    21. His being here, hobnobbing with gentry, this was Petra’s doing


    22. His father was a lawyer, and his mother amember of an old family of landed gentry


    23. It makes no difference what names you assign to the players: pharaohs, kings, nobles, gentry, astronauts, bankers, billionaires, landowners, executives, stockholders… or subjects, slaves, peasants, subjects, laborers, workers, taxpayers, customers, consumers, artisans… the basic inequity of the system is the same


    24. The American landed Gentry had become so corrupt


    25. Why were none of his other crimes ever proven? Because this would have inadvertently revealed how all the richest gentry and authorities of the English seacoast were guilty as sin of profiting from his crimes, and how they all helped him, and how they aided him and abetted him, and bought from him and sold to him


    26. Who were in power in England? The most venal, ossified, incompetent, stupid, landed gentry and nobility


    27. It took years of the landed gentry propping up lower class public figures like Adams, to turn the idea of rebellion into a popular cause


    28. The corruptions of the landed gentry


    29. Over the period of a few thousand years: the raiders, the killers, the robber barons, and their kings, and emperors, and presidents, and knights, and lords, and landed gentry, and owners, and shopkeepers, and citizens, and voters of Europe and America; have not only legalized robbery and rape and killing


    30. Why was the Empire of England maintained effectively for hundreds of years? Because the landed gentry

    31. The Victorian buildings, too, had a shabby air of rather faded grandeur and, like the minor gentry from that era, attempts were made to keep up appearances; like the freshly-painted black metal gates and the smartly-uniformed gate-porter—surface shows that cost little


    32. Pirates are not allowed to enjoy the fruits of their labor: but the highest class of robber in England the landed gentry can and did rob everyone including the pirates of their treasure ‘legally’


    33. Who is the new burgeoning upper class elite in Stevenson’s book? It is the new upper class of the gentry set: the English bourgeoisie: the middle class doctor and middle class gentry: the squire Trelawney, and Dr


    34. "Showing off the tweed, sir; what the gentry wants is something singular to catch the eye, sir--and clean in their habits, sir!" So they display their tortoises


    35. Living not long after the Wars of the Roses, and in the dregs of the Catholic Church in England, he is indignant at the corruption of the clergy, at the luxury of the nobility and gentry, at the sufferings of the poor, at the calamities caused by war


    36. ') He is very severe on the sports of the gentry; the Utopians count 'hunting the lowest, the vilest, and the most abject part of butchery


    37. When the king summoned Parliament, they were the Lords, the aristocratic group, by contrast with the Commons, who were knights, gentry and merchants


    38. The nobility and the gentry were permitted no such laxity, but it was routinely overlooked among the peasantry


    39. Those gentry left nothing to chance


    40. I felt that I wanted enormously to have a vulgar scrap with those gentry, where I could hit out and flatten something

    41. To be sure Mr Dribbles, who at that time kept the head inns, and was in the council, said, with a wink, that it might be found an inconvenience to sober folk that happened, on an occasion now and then, to be an hour later than usual among their friends, either at his house or any other, to be shown by the lamps to the profane populace as they were making the best of their way home; and Mr Dippings, the candlemaker, with less public spirit than might have been expected from one who made such a penny by the illuminations on news of victory, was of opinion that lamps would only encourage the commonality to keep late hours; and that the gentry were in no need of any thing of the sort, having their own handsome glass lanterns, with two candles in them, garnished and adorned with clippit paper; an equipage which he prophesied would soon wear out of fashion when lamps were once introduced, and the which prediction I have lived to see verified; for certainly, now-adays, except when some elderly widow lady, or maiden gentlewoman, wanting the help and protection of man, happens to be out at her tea and supper, a tight and snod serving lassie, with a three-cornered glass lantern, is never seen on the causey


    42. Taking heart from them, other corps were proposed on the part of the gentry, in which they were themselves to have the command; and seeing that the numbers were to be limited, they had a wish and interest to keep back the real volunteer offers, and to get their own accepted in their stead


    43. conference with the secretary of state, who, falling into the views of his lordship, in preferring the offers of the corps proposed by the gentry, sent the volunteers word in reply, that their services, on the terms they had proposed, which were of the least possible expense to government, could not be accepted


    44. It would, as I said at the time, have been just as well to have made it really a trades’ ball, without any adulteration of the gentry; but the hempies alluded to jouked themselves in upon us, and obligated the managers to invite them; and an ill return they made for this discretion and civility, as I have to relate


    45. For a long period of time, I had observed that there was a gradual mixing in of the country gentry among the town’s folks


    46. Nevertheless, we came in for our share of the condescensions of the country gentry; and although there was nothing like a melting down of them among us, either by marrying or giving in marriage, there was a communion that gave us some insight, no overly to their advantage, as to the extent and measure of their capacities and talents


    47. But in this I am speaking of the change when it had come to a full head; for in verity it must be allowed that when the country gentry, with their families, began to intromit among us, we could not make enough of them


    48. Soon after the inspection ball before spoken of, she said to me that it would be a great benefit and advantage to our family if we could get Bodletonbrae and his sister, and some of the other country gentry, to dine with us


    49. It reflected down, as it were, upon themselves a glaik of the sunshine that shone upon us; and although it may be a light thing, as it is seemingly a vain one, to me to say, I am now pretty much of Mrs Pawkie’s opinion, that our cultivation of an intercourse with the country gentry was, in the end, a benefit to our family, in so far as it obtained, both for my sons and daughters, a degree of countenance that otherwise could hardly have been expected from their connexions and fortune, even though I had been twice provost


    50. then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap Anyway, I can’t wait that long to see































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    aristocracy gentry high society bourgeoisie highborn nobility