Although the family was poor, they showed true gentility by welcoming the strangers with friendliness. From LearnThat.org.
I say "gentility" -- but that is not exactly the word; for there is not the remotest trace of snobbishness in Henry James. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
Descending in the scale of what is termed gentility, I found darker and deeper themes for speculation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference
The farmer's daughter had an instinct for clothes, and Hugh's mind got the idea of gentility by way of the medium of clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Poor White] Reference
If he is a goo enough actor to be able to portray that 'gentility', then I'll be game. From Wordnik.com. [More casting tidbits] Reference
I suppose, as a proof of limitless wealth, leisure, and the aforesaid "gentility," it was tremendous. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
A Copperhead friend of mine, who was always aiming at "gentility," remarked to me with an air of disgust on the same subject. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
There spoke the genuine pioneer, whose heart is in his work, and who can postpone "gentility" until it grows indigenously out of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775] Reference
"gentility" and the level of the ungloved masses was in an active state of excitement and indignation. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
Now, it was quiet and gentility, easy-living and refinement. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
These ladies had the tranquil manners of the highest gentility. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was remembered last week for his stubborn gentility and his decency. From Wordnik.com. [Gentleman Pol] Reference
She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
There was an air of shabby gentility to the place, the residue of better days. From Wordnik.com. [Web-Exclusive Excerpt: ?A Question Of Intent?] Reference
Added to these are intellectual training, musical culture and a spirit of true gentility. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900] Reference
There is an old proverb which says, "Mere gentility sent to market, won't buy a peck of oats.". From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
At this week's competition, however, gentility takes a back seat as the better players advance. From Wordnik.com. [Different Strokes] Reference
There's a gentility and friendliness in Sri Lanka that makes it very easy for us to stay longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Beach Bums] Reference
Cyberspace's lapses in gentility underscores a central contradiction inherent in online communication. From Wordnik.com. [We've Got Mail--Always] Reference
Do not make a pretense of gentility, nor parade the fact that you are a descendant of any notable family. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Not even the faded remnants of an earlier grace or gentility helped to redeem the weak points of nature about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
It is a vase -- variously pronounced to rhyme with 'parse' or 'pause,' according to one's pretensions to gentility. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
Aunt Julia is one of the bugbears of the Blake family, her gentility and general fineness being altogether too much for them. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
Quinton Aaron gives an impressively stoical performance as football juggernaut Michael Oher, a lovely mix of gentility and raw power. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Kermode's DVD round-up] Reference
Perhaps the veneer of gentility at the Gezira Club was always a lie, even and especially when this was a quiet colonial establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Different Strokes] Reference
If you live a life of shabby gentility for too long, the shabbiness overwhelms gentility and your downward mobility becomes permanent. From Wordnik.com. [The middle class will get you, Mr Cameron] Reference
The houses are generally stately, regular, and well built, and give you the idea both of former and of present gentility and opulence. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
Dirty and coarse hands are no less marks of slothfulness and lowbreeding than clean and delicate hands are of refinement and gentility. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
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