Noun, : The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Maine. From Dictionary.com.
In spite of the disguising plainness of my dress, I suppose the word gentlewoman was clearly stamped upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference
The good old lady admired the word gentlewoman of all others in the English vocabulary, and made all around her feel that such was her rank. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The Brothel is a place where relief is given and ministrations are performed under the watchful eye of a titled gentlewoman, who is known simply as Madame. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
With a waiting-gentlewoman, whose dressing is very neat. From Wordnik.com. [English Songs and Ballads] Reference
The gentlewoman counterfaited her grief, and kepte silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
"Well, because my mother was a gypsy, and his a gentlewoman.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The crueltye of a Kynge of Macedone who forced a gentlewoman called. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Veturia, being an auncient gentlewoman, and mother of Coriolanus and. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
She received us with the courtesy and easy manners of a gentlewoman. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
As to manners, the courtesy shown by so finished a gentlewoman as Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The old Cyprian gentlewoman, Madama di Thénouris, under advice of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
But wherever these gentlewoman went they carried refinement and ideals. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
Candaules king of Lydia, had a marueilous beautifull gentlewoman to his. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Timoclia, a gentlewoman of Thebes, vnderstandinge the couetous desire of. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
No real gentleman, and no true gentlewoman, ever has feelings like these. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Countesse, who departed from the gentlewoman and retourned to her lodging. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
She was, to the end, a gentlewoman of the old school, gracious and mannerly. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Katharine Graham] Reference
For which the gentlewoman more then contented, gaue most harty thankes to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
She has all the delicate reflexes of a Texas gentlewoman and all the savvy of a ring rat. From Wordnik.com. [Story pick: The fighting lady] Reference
Rep. LANGEVIN: For what purpose does the gentlewoman from California rise without objection?. From Wordnik.com. [Rhode Island Rep. Langevin Presides Over House] Reference
His smacking of a gentlewoman is somewhat too savory, and he mistakes her nose for her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Seing at a banket a verye fayre gentlewoman a widowe called (as some saye) Madonna Margherita de. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
“Tell me then what it is hardlie (said the gentlewoman:) for you shall neuer bee deceiued of mee.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
'The gentlewoman of my Lady Isoude,' said he, 'brought it and bade me mix it in your lordship's wine.'. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
'And never hath he borne token or sign of any lady or gentlewoman before he bore thine,' said Sir Gawaine. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
“Sir, there is a gentlewoman of this towne, that would gladly speake with you, if it were your pleasure.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
The gentlewoman laid her under the shadow of a great tree, and right so there came the barons, following after the queen. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
The gentlewoman sore afrayed, being newely awaked oute of her sleepe, and seeing iminent death, could not tell what to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
She must never forget that she was a New England gentlewoman; she must learn the traditions, stiffen with the pride of her race. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Not only in her own person did this dainty gentlewoman carry out her theory, but she looked for it in the persons of her visitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Frances Greville, a young gentlewoman, a cousin of the Tracys, was married by 1621 to young Nathaniel West, son of Lord De La Warr. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The gentlewoman then constrained with necessity, demaunded of her with great bashfulnesse, an hundred poundes to marie her daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Evangelists that he should never be against lady nor gentlewoman, except if he fought for a lady and his adversary fought for another. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Successful colonization, contingent upon a stable domestic life, was quickened in Virginia with the coming of the gentlewoman Mrs. Lucy. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Miss Cooper was a gentlewoman, to be sure; but it did not inevitably follow that she was too sensitive to harken to a distasteful topic. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
When Queen Elizabeth missed her lord she was nigh out of her wit, and she took a gentlewoman with her and ran into the forest to seek him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
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