Definitionn. elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
Last update: September 10, 2015
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Bishop Heber described them as follows: - "The country is burdened with a crowd of lazy, profligate, self-called sawars (cavaliers), who, though many of them are not worth a rupee, conceive it derogatory to their gentility and Pathan blood to apply themselves to any honest industry, and obtain for the most part a precarious livelihood by sponging on the industrious tradesmen and farmers, on whom they levy a sort of blackmail, or as hangers-on to the wealthy and noble families yet remaining in the province. [Please select]
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By that road, his progress to the goal of gentility would be smooth and simple. [Please select]
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"In Italy wearing a hat is a sign of gentility." [Please select]
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Frank was destined that same evening to see the contrast between true and false gentility. [Please select]
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Far-reaching was the line of the gentility, to whose flanks clung the rabble of trade. [Please select]
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'I had no idea that high gentility numbered chivalry among its virtues.' [Please select]
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The Knight girls could make faces too, for all their gentility. [Please select]
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Gentility pays dividends of the highest order, being, as it is, a badge of character. [Please select]
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"Gentility is, after all, less a habit than an instinct." [Please select]
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It played the "hat trick" with the gentility of modern manners. [Please select]
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Battlefields had tested their valor, and drawing-rooms had proved their gentility. [Please select]
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