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... discourage students)—a qualification essential to the Perfect Gentleman in the eighteenth century. He must have had—what no book could give him—an ancestor who knew how to sit. Men there were whose social status was visibly signified by the abbreviation 'Gent.' appended to their surnames. But already this was becoming a vermiform appendix, and the nineteenth century did away with it. This handsome abbreviation created an invidious distinction between citizens which democracy refused ...

— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren

... Katheryne holdyng a boke and disputyng with the doctoures, holdyng a reason in her ryghte hande, saiynge: 'Madame le roigne' and the pellycan as an answere, 'Ce est la signe et du roy, partenir joy, et a tout sa gent, elle mete sa entent,'—a sotyltye named a panter with an ymage of saynte Katheryne with a whele in her hande, and a rolle wyth a reason in that other hande, sayeng: 'La royne ma file, in ceste ile, per bon ...

— Coronation Anecdotes • Giles Gossip

... my threshold went, One morning in the body: He "dropped" me, to oblige a gent— A ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... of the Statutes at Large, published under the careful revision of Joseph Jobson, Gent., Clerk of the Peace," ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... yer remains Was the boss singer back in '72, And used to allers git invites to go Down to Swellmont and sing at every feed. In t'other Villiam's time, that was, afore The gent that you've ...

— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce

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