Use "gentry" in a sentence

1. Half the gentry were

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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8. Mixing with the country gentry

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

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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?”

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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20. Emory said the gentry led the hunts

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

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

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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

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24. The American landed Gentry had become so corrupt

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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

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

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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

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28. The corruptions of the landed gentry

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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39. Those gentry left nothing to chance

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

51. Standish, the old lawyer, who had been so long concerned with the landed gentry that he had become landed himself, and used that oath in a deep-mouthed manner as a sort of armorial bearings, stamping the speech of a man who held a good position

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52. gentry, elated with their silver-headed whips and satin stocks, but embarrassed in their manners, and timidly jocose: even Fred was above them, having at least the accent and manner of a university man

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53. Moreover, he was one of the high gentry living four miles away from Lowick, and was thus exalted to an equal sky with the sheriff of the county and other dignities vaguely regarded as necessary to the system of things

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54. Once, in the Time o’ Charles II, ’twas the Noble Resort o’ Gentry, but now, ’tis a floatin’ Bawdy House an’ the Lair o’ Ladies o’ the Town who drink Burnt Brandy (they say to defend their Stomachs from the Chill Air upon the Water) an’ lye in wait fer such poor Cunny-haunted Fellows as they can infect with the Pox

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55. The good he has done to everybody here, from his peasants up to the gentry, is incalculable

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56. In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals

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57. The chief magnates sat on high-backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room

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58. At that moment Count Rostopchin with his protruding chin and alert eyes, wearing the uniform of a general with sash over his shoulder, entered the room, stepping briskly to the front of the crowd of gentry

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59. The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done

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60. ‘It seems that even in the next world only the gentry are to have a chance!’ remarked one

61. An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills

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62. ‘There are gentry here; the general himself is in that hut, and you foul-mouthed devils, you brutes, I’ll give it to you!’ shouted he, hitting the first man who came in his way a swinging blow on the back

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63. Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked

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64. Here was a convent hall become a horse barn of the landed gentry, there were new wings built on in 1890

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65. “Well, you know Missis always said they were poor and quite despicable: and they may be poor; but I believe they are as much gentry as the Reeds are; for one day, nearly seven years ago, a Mr

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66. But she could remember Bill Oliver’s father a journeyman needlemaker; and th’ Rivers wor gentry i’ th’ owd days o’ th’ Henrys, as onybody might see by looking into th’ registers i’ Morton Church vestry

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67. He broke off acquaintance with all the gentry, and shut himself up like a hermit at the Hall

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68. This of course is rendered necessary by the great distances which separate the residences of the gentry

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69. Of the gentry, some, like Engelgard, behaved as true patriots, remaining on their estates, harassing the French to the utmost of their power, and frequently meeting death in the service of their country

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70. The gentry provided numerous volunteers, and the merchants large sums of money

71. The gentry hid in the woods; the authorities had no longer any power anywhere; the leaders of solitary detachments punished or pardoned without giving account of their conduct

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72. "Do you suppose I don't see it, sir? It's high time I should know the gentry

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73. And with tears in her eyes she bowed to them both, each separately, and to each with a deep bow, exactly as " simple people " bow down when they ask a favoxir of the gentry

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74. Note that to this day Makar Ivanovitch is most interested in the life of the gentry and upper class

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75. But now for what I fancy you don't know; these gentry have no intention of parting with you

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76. "Deuce knows what they are, not exactly gentry, but merry, rollicking gentlemen; so he was like this when they gave him to me; whether they had been fighting, or whether he was in some sort of a fit, goodness knows what it was; but they were nice, jolly gentlemen!"

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77. When he thought or spoke of what a revolution would do for the people he always imagined this people from whom he had sprung himself left in very nearly the same conditions as they were in, only with sufficient land and without the gentry and without officials

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78. She also said that from childhood she had felt an aversion for the life of the gentry, but loved the common folks, and was often chidden for staying in the servants' quarters, the kitchen and the stable, instead of the parlor

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79. Thus, the proprietor who litigated concerning the forest did what he did only because he did not present himself to himself as a simple man, like any of the peasants who were living by his side, but as a large landed proprietor and a member of the gentry, and so, under the influence of the intoxication of power, he felt himself insulted by the pretensions of the peasants

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80. One hundred years ago, the illiterate masses, who had no conception as to who composed their government and as to what nations surrounded them, blindly obeyed those local officials and gentry, whose slaves they were

81. And it sufficed for the government by means of bribes and rewards to keep these officials and this gentry in their power, in order that the masses might obediently do what was demanded of them

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82. Pelagéya Danílovna, having given orders to clear the rooms for the visitors and arranged about refreshments for the gentry and the serfs, went about among the mummers without removing her spectacles, peering into their faces with a suppressed smile and failing to recognize any of them

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83. At that moment Count Rostopchín with his protruding chin and alert eyes, wearing the uniform of a general with sash over his shoulder, entered the room, stepping briskly to the front of the crowd of gentry

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