Of all Ronald Reagan's innate qualities, his gentlemanliness was the last to atrophy. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Then your remark about Brown is sort of political "gentlemanliness". From Wordnik.com. [On Gordon Brown's "Fear" of Elections] Reference
The creaking sound you hear is my gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
But gentlemanliness was not merely a question of birth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Against his nature, he decided this time he must forego gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lunatic Fringe]
Certainly Messrs Cameron and Miliband seemed very pleased with their own gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [You cannot be serious, Mr Cameron | Simon Hoggart's sketch] Reference
When she meets Powell, she is impressed with his gentlemanliness absent in the roguish Gable. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Melodrama (1934)] Reference
He had made a resolution, and gentlemen of that planet did not take their gentlemanliness lightly. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
I believe that the smaller schools were associated with a more explicit version of gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog: January 2007 Archives] Reference
The soul of gentlemanliness is a kindly feeling toward others, that prompts one to secure their comfort. 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
What I never really understood about his attractiveness, especially to young girls, is his gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: Twilight’s Robert Pattinson: Cassandra Handley] Reference
What starts as gentlemanliness, however, ends in the nightmare that Huck is not “ever going to get shut of.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
What I'm saying is that Federer represents a bygone era through his grace and gentlemanliness on and off the court. From Wordnik.com. [A breakfast treat] Reference
He stood, showing a degree of gentlemanliness unusual in China, where women were nowhere near as valued as they were back home. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
On our front, and on the fronts of other divisions, the Germans had behaved throughout the winter with a passable gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
And in golf, with its tradition of gentlemanliness, the realities of private lives hardly gell with the cultivated public personae. From Wordnik.com. [Unplayable] Reference
Yet still, a man just might get away with an errant burp if he'd been trained in some of the other arts of Southern gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Charm] Reference
In point of gentlemanliness he is unrivalled, and I should say that next to myself he is of all men the best suited to your purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Master Humphrey's Clock] Reference
There are more important, if subtler, sides to Southern gentlemanliness, especially Sewanee gentlemanliness, than whether or not one burps. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Charm] Reference
Gentleness is indeed the best test of gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
I shall take up Dudley on account of his gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Shoryuken] Reference
'Oh! the gentlemanliness of these infinitely maligned Jesuits!. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
His instinctive gentlemanliness was invincible and all-pervading. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
The essence of gentlemanliness is self-rule, the sovereignty of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
'I am not quite the person to decide on another's gentlemanliness, Miss Hale. From Wordnik.com. [North and South] Reference
Simple Clare could not see what keeping a carriage had to do with gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
He was patient, as I said, of all things, and gentle beyond all mere gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
I understood the urbanity and the gentlemanliness that must have existed in the patriarchal times. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
Comfort, fortification; and gentlemanliness made the place, as the General said, an ideal English home. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
He had that perfect savoir-faire -- a certain innate gentlemanliness -- which is the characteristic of all. From Wordnik.com. [Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories] Reference
To one to whom has been given only the common ordinary joints gentlemanliness is apparently an impossible ideal. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel and the Author, and others] Reference
But his pride, his courtliness, his fine gentlemanliness, would likely have been the death of him in such a case. From Wordnik.com. [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference
"I was not aware of it," answered Arthur, whose innate gentlemanliness told him that this should be held sacred ground. From Wordnik.com. [From One Generation to Another] Reference
It occurred to her, with ominous sinkings of the heart, that she had relied mistakenly upon Dalhousie's gentlemanliness. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
I just love the game -- the skill levels, the gentlemanliness, the scenic beauty of the courses and everything about it. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
And he might have picked up his gentlemanliness by going to the galleries of theatres, and watching stage drawing-room manners. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
"That's one accomplishment of gentlemanliness I was never properly instructed in," said Mr. Pyecroft regretfully, almost plaintively. From Wordnik.com. [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference
They could hardly believe it possible that Mr. Aaron Woodward, with all his outward show of gentlemanliness, was such a thoroughly bad man. From Wordnik.com. [True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place] Reference
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