| 单词 | gentry |
| 例句 | This morning Francis saw that I did not have my usual interest in the French moneyed gentry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They invited various relatives and friends, who took the train out from the city, and all the landed gentry from the neighborhood, without overlooking the town notables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This contemporary lithograph lampoons the panicked gentry who fled the city - and thus turned Handel’s new oratorio, Theodora, into a box-office flop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Most of the time the Southern gentry spoke in code about such things. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The gentry of the neighborhood, hearing of his pronouncement, appeared in the following days to protest, saying that he would incite a rebellion in the neighborhood if others heard of his system. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She’s from yangban stock, her people are the Korean landed gentry, and she finds this open talk of figures awkward, unnecessary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So Fraser took everything to Chelsea, where he had a little nursery, and made a good living selling azaleas, rhododendrons, and magnolias to the English gentry. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She had no understanding of her husband’s work and, having been raised among the minor rural gentry, she despised his impecunious profession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Country fare, it is. Nothing like the gentry are used to, but the likes of me treasures a fine mushrump." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Best not lie to the gentry. We can tell, can’t we?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His appeal, his tears, moved all the gentry listening there; but now they saw the crier and the minstrel come from Odysseus’ hall, where they had slept. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Virginia gentry were psychologically incapable of sharing Hamilton’s affinity with men who made their living manipulating interest rates. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Peasants aren’t smart enough to lie to the gentry. You heard her yourself.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A company will boast of having been “purveyors of fine jewelry to the gentry since 1861.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “The landed gentry and the aristocrats hunt, you see, and we liberal middle classes fume about it. We want to take their silly little toys away.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Frank was a son of the gentry and a son of the country and a socially aware Southerner who left the South and returned with a new perspective,” Mr. Edge said. An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z He wrote for the British gentry — well-heeled, affluent white males who still purchased claret from France in cask, to be bottled in their private cellars on demand. After 50 years, Michael Broadbent is still teaching us how to drink wine 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z It seems that Ms. Kincaid’s description of Antigua, of a nation run by foreign landed gentry, may not be so dated after all. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “Mad Men,” too, was fascinated with the layers of history and the stub ends of the faded gentry. Review: ‘The Romanoffs’ Is Elegant but Frustrating 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Don’t forget ‘gentrification’ is rooted in the word ‘gentry’. Suburbanites are becoming the new face of homelessness in America 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z On Monday night, the city’s cultural gentry gathered at Cipriani’s, on 42nd Street, for a black-tie gala put on by the Museum of the Moving Image to salute Alec Baldwin. | Salute to a Baldwin 2011-03-02T15:00:05Z Underwoods, purveyors of fine foods to the gentry, is demanding money with menaces. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2011-08-23T20:30:01Z PBS has yet to announce an air date for the drama about landed gentry and their servants, but it's expected to return in January 2013. PBS fall schedule offers U.K. hits, US history 2012-05-15T22:46:04Z Like "Upstairs, Downstairs" and its other offspring, "Downton Abbey" portrays what transpires among the gentry, as well as between their below-stairs servants. TV Preview: Stately 'Downton Abbey' series comes to PBS 2011-01-08T00:52:04Z And the tone, a kind of perky gravity that sits well on the early-20th-century British gentry, is a more awkward fit in a story set in the midst of a war over slavery. Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z We see this in the choral voice of the “urban gentry” that opens Franzen’s “Freedom,” and in the cavalcade of status details that voice records. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z Those are also the claims of the plantation gentry that owned slaves, forced them into exhausting, unpaid labor and treated them like animals. 12 Years a Slave and Mandela: Two Tales of Racism Survived 2013-09-09T23:34:54Z In France and Spain, the Catholic Church and gentry are desperate to stamp it out. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The gentry needed more grassland to feed horses and livestock as England’s road network developed, fox hunting took off and agriculture expanded. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr Doyle turns outward to show how important America’s civil war was to the rest of the world: liberty and democracy defeated slavery and the landed gentry. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And while much of the landed gentry who founded the nation were intellectuals and aesthetes, the frontier myth resonates much more loudly. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z “Northern Catholics were a persecuted people, those in the south were more like landed gentry,” said Rev. Gary Toman, Catholic chaplain at Queens University. Irish Catholics flee the church 2013-03-26T23:09:00Z The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z In the most provocative scene, Brown, along with other young black boys, is put in a boxing ring, blindfolded, and told to fight for the entertainment of white Southern gentry. ‘Get On Up’ Stars Chadwick Boseman as James Brown 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Tchaikovsky not only wrote the music, but adapted his own libretto from Pushkin’s 1833 novel, a lyrical examination of love’s cross-purposes among the Russian gentry. Seattle Opera’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ is fine but could offer so much more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z And the hard truth is that a man such as Atticus, born barely a decade after Reconstruction to a family of Southern gentry, would have had a complicated and tortuous history with race. The evolution of Atticus Finch 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z In art historical terms, leisure time was rendered as the purview of the white gentry. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Nigel Saul is just the right person to tell the story as experienced in England, with a row of academic studies as well as popular books on medieval English royals, nobles and gentry. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z At the heart of the story, which is set in January 1945, is a family of once-landed gentry that in the interwar years traded most of its estate for stocks in English and Romanian industries. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Over three centuries, the Goan gentry, many of them descendants of the Portuguese, built all over the state. Pursuits : Hotels With History in Goa, India 2014-02-06T19:17:38Z It was a classic Acadian “broad path,” wide enough to walk arm-in-arm and topped with crushed stone so the gentry could wear dress shoes. Restoring Acadia’s Trails 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z To them, King, a blond-haired, blue-eyed member of the white American gentry, was a lifelong bachelor. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Named for the architect and landscape designer Batty Langley, the boutique hotel evokes a stay with the gentry via cozy, firelit public rooms. Across Europe, hotels that feel like home. Only better. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But not to wrestle with this persistent form of denialism among the gentry seems remiss, like a curious incident of a dog not barking. ‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Eliot was a literary mandarin, the confident product of St. Louis Wasp gentry, and an elliptical Catholic royalist given to grave, decorous outbursts of anti-semitism. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Waterways, forests and fertile soil enriched a gentry focused on raising tobacco, including William Churchill, a 1670s settler who prospered as planter, merchant and officeholder. Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia Born in Ukraine in 1882 into one of many families of landed gentry who settled there following the partition of Poland, his personal drama was part of a larger story about old Europe after 1918. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z It was built in 1928, not for the gentry, but as a settlement house for the neighborhood’s teeming immigrant population. The Interloper on Avenue B 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Her beat was the decayed gentry of Hove and Kensington, people who were struggling on fixed incomes pinched by the first world war. Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z His family were “gentry” and rumored to be related to Robert E. Lee, naming one son of every generation after the beloved Civil War general. “Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Deliberate overtones of Chekhov abound in this period portrait of the discontented members of a 1917 landed gentry family unraveling in the face of personal turmoil and the global ravages of World War I. Sharr White's 'Snow Geese' gets an assured West Coast premiere 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Probably born before the American Revolution, and possibly a freed slave, he worked in Baltimore as portrait painter to the local gentry. Bill Cosby’s Art Collection Joins African Art at Smithsonian 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Directed toward his own class — an urbane, well-educated, culturally cosmopolitan gentry — his lyrics define what might be called the Manhattan sensibility: humanist, proudly intellectual, psychologically sophisticated, hyper-articulate, liberal, Jewish and disenchanted. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z The rural gentry and village hoi polloi of “Midsomer” are reliably smug, venal and pretentious, and a fair share of the murders seem largely justified, if still regrettable. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z St Louis’s gentry, rich suburbanites, move their problems to our backyard and then they want to destroy our yard because they don’t like the people living in it. Suburbanites are becoming the new face of homelessness in America 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z How about 100 years ago, in the gentle twilight of the glamorous British gentry? ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Trapped 2013-07-01T15:07:20Z He did, after all, call this elegiac portrait of a vanishing gentry a comedy. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The gentry on whose lands it stood – some of whom were important antiquaries, collecting and preserving the inscribed stones that were found along it – were beginning to make serious money from coal and steel. The Antiquarian Rediscovery of the Antonine Wall by Lawrence Keppie – review 2013-02-15T09:00:02Z He was talented, cooking elaborate and refined meals for Virginia's gentry. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Having read theorists whose ideas underlie the movement, Mr. Brooke is inclined to ideas of liberalism, but, being a comfortable member of the landed gentry, his instincts are less than disruptive. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Jane Austen isn't castigated for wasting her time on parsonical gentry; she is praised for being so honest as to write only about what she knew. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z On one hand, the Calvinist capitalists who worshipped industry, and on the other, the clergy-allied landed gentry who saw work as man’s curse. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z The long, snooty shadow of St. Moritz’s old winter gentry is still discernible in the remaining private clubs — sporting associations by origin — that are key to social life here. 36 Hours in St. Moritz 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It was mid-November in a private room upstairs at the Monocle, the longtime haunt of Capitol Hill's gentry, where signed photos of aged congressmen line the walls like movie-star headshots in a Hollywood dry cleaner. 43 percent of internships at for-profit companies don’t pay. This man is helping to change that. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z A law was passed prohibiting anyone below the "rank" of gentry from wearing heels – hence, the expression "well-heeled". High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z Most philanthropy also comes from business people now; it's not the landed gentry anymore. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z Or that the book forms a grand metaphor for the post-war destruction of the gentry by the rising working class, embodied by Faraday and his ilk. Guardian book club: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010-08-11T14:06:00Z Both Fox’s just-canceled “I Wanna Marry Harry” and Bravo’s new “Ladies of London” tell stories about how the British gentry are, just like us Americans, buffoonish and grasping. Reality TV takes on the royal family — with ludicrous, drunken results 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Kate's relatives are very much connected to the good and great of Leeds – to the "gentry" if you will. Duchess of Cambridge not posh? Her ancestor was lord mayor of Leeds 2013-04-05T11:12:04Z A hereditary gentry and a warrior elite found themselves sitting down at the same table. Art Review: A Cascade of Petals From the Met’s Japanese Collection 2014-01-30T23:17:46Z Yet the distrust between the factions was made toxic by class snobbery and hatred, since the Woodvilles were a mere gentry family. ‘Richard III’ Review: The Villain Wore a Crown 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Best of all is her demonstration that the supposedly demure, sheltered novelist knew all about the profiteering imperialism that subsidised the leisure of her landed gentry. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Lane was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, the daughter of a respectable middle-class draper and a mother who came from minor rural gentry. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z Yet there are plenty of reasons to look forward to the Roundabout Theater Company’s take on this 1904 group portrait of the twilight of the Russian gentry. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Interest was not forthcoming, but his drawings attracted abundant commissions to paint the horses of landed gentry. Review: Paintings by George Stubbs Travel to the Met 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In one of the novel’s political subplots, Mr. Brooke, Dorothea Brooke’s uncle and guardian, who is a comfortable member of the landed gentry, decides to run for office under the banner of Reform. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The players: the four Bennet sisters, minor gentry maidens who will be left nearly penniless when their dad croaks. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z The wilderness resorts of old, which tried to reproduce the lifestyle of the landed gentry, have been supplanted by a raft of quirky rentals. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z A self-made New York gentry snapped them up. Thomas Cole, American Moralist 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z While there’s a certain staid feeling to the production, it does deliver a solid working-over to the era’s gentry. Marriage brings a life of privilege, misery for ‘Thérèse’ 2013-09-05T21:21:31Z In the eastern fields of Stepney, close to Whitechapel station, she finds aristocrats and landed gentry who desired open fields and country estates yet enjoyed proximity to the City. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Similarly, its costumbrismo, or costume paintings, capture the way Mexicans have decorated and dressed, stretching from buttoned-up Spanish gentry to elegant, high-fashion socialites in the 1960s. In Mexico City, a Private Art Collection Evolves into a Public Museum 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The action starts when Ross — he is Ross to everyone, being local gentry but also a man of the people — returns from fighting in the American Revolution to find his father's estate in decay. 'Poldark' mines a reliable literary source 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s a long-standing tradition that’s closely tied to a history of royal dress, military uniforms and gentry sports like horseback riding and hunting. Modern meets tradition at London’s menswear shows 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “Anna Karenina” for hot takes on the sexual politics of the Russian landed gentry? In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Emma Franklin, another English jeweler who wears a colossal ram’s ring on her pinkie, ascribes this creativity to London’s history and the rich roots of the gentry. T Magazine: The Fab Four 2011-02-18T09:00:42Z After a lightning courtship, she returns to Kerry as Robert's wife, only to discover that he is part of the Anglo-Irish gentry and that his mother occupies the local big house. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-02T17:19:50Z He argues with Mary over whether the gentry expect to be able to keep their power and land and money without working for it. Downton Abbey Recap: Whole Hog 2014-02-10T03:00:27Z She will go to the house parties where disaffected English gentry gather to grumble about socialism and the better way the Germans have of running their country. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z “If these gentry progressives are waiting for urban schools to reform without competition from charters or vouchers they are consigning generations of children to diminished lives.” NAACP calls for moratorium of charter schools until they stop acting like private schools 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Willughby's kindly, reassuring manner meant his clientele ranged from the gentry to the poor. Rare book of midwifery horror up for auction 2012-06-28T15:07:42Z In “Middlemarch,” Mr. Brooke wants Reform without too much reformation; he does not really want an alteration in the balance of power in the legislature between the landed gentry and the new industrial centers. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Most of the gentry seemed to fold ineffectually after they were discovered. Kit Harington Isn’t Trying to Compete With ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z As you pass by the familiar chain stores and well-heeled gentry, beware: a longing may set in for the raw and pulsating Naples to the east. Elena Ferrante's Naples – a photo essay 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z As a result, their shift to the manners of the English gentry, landed and not so landed, and achieved through uniformly persuasive accents and deft physical performances, is all the more bewitching. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Unlike Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton was not born into the landed gentry. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z If I want to understand the dreams of the gentry and the nightmares of the poor in early-19th-century England, I turn to Jane Austen and William Blake. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z As part of the gentry but unmarried, Bridget would have lost her reputation had the illegitimate birth been known then. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Ross seems much more at home celebrating in the fields than he did among the gentry, fending off husband-hunters. 'Poldark' Episode 3 Recap: Hope v. Heartbreak 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z At that time he is merely the chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, and his antagonists are not yet sympathetic proles but out-of-touch gentry. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Michael’s upbringing was the opposite: He was the charmed and charming child of New Orleans gentry, and he never encountered a club or court that didn’t want to have him as a prince. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Some members of the gentry, including Mrs. Kennedy, weren’t happy about being included in the mural and requested that they be removed, according to recently found hotel records. At New York’s Pierre, Restoring the Romantic Rotunda Room 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Such was the trajectory of his life that he became a sort of landed gentry long before that. Readers recommend: songs about change 2010-12-17T00:01:03Z As the comments suggest, his work, like expensive wine, is perfect for the fully educated liberal elite gentry. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Pupils here were not the sons of gentry but of the middle classes, and showed themselves full of the same stout qualities as their betters. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z And the twins did seem determined to be identified as Southern gentry. ‘Inseparable’ Finds Pride, Indignity and Irony in the Lives of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The town of Saltleigh seems real, from its isolated location and parochial locals to the clear class divisions between the town, where Esme grew up, and the gentry, where Alison is now precariously involved. ‘The Crooked House’ review: A murder most British 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z This version emphasizes Turgenev as both a pathologist and an epigrammatist, laying out his specimens of unhappy Russian gentry for cool anatomy and precisely worded summations. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z She roots out Catholic gentry and is complicit in their torture. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Too many references to the Labour government "eating … alive" the old gentry clang from the pages, just in case we are in danger of missing Waters' thesis. Guardian book club: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010-08-11T14:06:00Z He wasn’t, like Yeats or Wilde, born to the Anglo-Irish gentry. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z A rich rural gentry within China had created a power elite to rival the Ming court. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z One August afternoon, my mother, ever the striving farmwife, had the wives of the local gentry, married to doctors, lawyers and auto execs, over for a luncheon. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Those two clients came to her through Elizabeth Roberts, an architect popular with the brownstone Brooklyn gentry who frequently brings in Ms. Muñoz for her projects. You Can Pay People to Style Your Houseplants 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Described in the 18th century as "a pretty town with an abundance of gentry in it, commonly called Proud Preston", the place has rediscovered its self-confidence after the long decline of textiles. Preston plans to write itself into the future 2012-08-29T10:00:00Z Mr. Darcy-in-real-life’s slim, sloping shoulders were often found in the landed gentry at the time, with strong legs and “well modeled thighs a sign of virility, a good fencer and horseman.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z That began with the burning of some bails — small wooden pegs that sit atop cricket stumps — after a team of English gentry lost to a squad of colonial upstarts from Australia. A Women’s World Cup semifinal is the here and now for the Australia-England rivalry, not the Ashes 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z He told NBC News last week that Reddit was considering allowing users to vote out moderators who led the protest, comparing them to “landed gentry” who were thwarting the site’s democratic ethos. Thousands of Reddit Communities Stay Dark as App Policy Protest Continues 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z In turn, the stability of government depended on cooperation between the Crown and the House of Commons, the larger of the two legal bodies in the parliament, which was populated by members of the gentry. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The destruction of states through war also created social volatility, reducing the status of formerly great aristocratic families while giving rise to new forms of gentry and a more powerful merchant class. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the writings of the time, the white landed gentry very explicitly talked about the need to use guns to repress Black power. How the Gun Became Integral to the Self-Identity of Millions of Americans 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Italian hand gestures and accents as thick as Sunday gravy are interspersed among the older gentry, but there’s a distinct GI ring to this theatrical milieu. Review: A graceful 'Much Ado About Nothing' — in all its madcap zeal — shines at A Noise Within 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z "I wonder if they thought at the time they would be remembered along with gentry who were making appearances in the local press, immortalised by a small message in a whisky bottle." Uncovering the men behind the 135-year-old message in a bottle 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The other major reason that Britain enjoyed such an early and long-lasting lead in industrialization is that British elites, especially the powerful gentry class of landowners, were not hostile to commercial enterprise. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It added Portugal to the list of European gentry it has upended here, and it rode a 1-0 showcase of its mighty guts through a taut quarterfinal and clear to the final four. Indestructible Morocco, the World Cup’s darling, moves on to the semis 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The goal was to intimidate the hell out of Black people with guns so that they wouldn’t vote, because if they voted, the gentry would lose whatever was left of the South. How the Gun Became Integral to the Self-Identity of Millions of Americans 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “They have become well-heeled landed gentry, exactly in remote parts of the American West on land nobody wanted.” Alone in a New World With Vast Open Space, and Sheep 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z What used to be thought of as simply a “landed gentry pile of land” now operates like a corporation, she said. King Charles Inherits Untold Riches, and Passes Off His Own Empire 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z There was a limited representative government in the parliament, and the electorate mostly represented the landowning gentry class. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He said the gentry would cross George IV Bridge and look down at the poor people in the Cowgate and Merchant Street. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Other Puritan leaders, such as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, came from the privileged class of English gentry. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There, lawns were an early means of displaying conspicuous wealth among the landed gentry, said Christopher Sellers, a history professor at Stony Brook University who has written about lawns in the United States. In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z “The Cherry Orchard” dramatizes a societal shift between the land-owning gentry and the descendants of serfs, who are ready to capitalize on their initiative and seize what was hitherto withheld from them. Commentary: How Anton Chekhov became the playwright of the moment 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z At this point in the life span of “Downton Abbey,” it’s not even attempting to critically consider this wealthy, white aristocratic dynasty of landed gentry with which it concerns itself. ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ review: A throwback in more ways than one 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z In varying degrees, Virginia’s gentry were also aware of the incongruity of demanding liberty for themselves while holding others in bondage. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z To be “genteel,” that is, a member of the gentry, meant to be refined, free of all rudeness. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He’s part of a Republican Party of 2022 that has flipped the script on populism: The gentry are revolting. Opinion | Ivy League Republicans’ phony rebellion against the ‘elites’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The gentry were the highest class in colonial society. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They will bury beneath them all forces of imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom, village bosses and evil gentry. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Particularly in the South, some backcountry settlers distrusted the planter elite, and clung to the king when the gentry turned rebellious. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The British American gentry modeled themselves on the English aristocracy, who embodied the ideal of refinement and gentility. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And with each coded clue he leaves behind for the Batman to find, it becomes increasingly clear that he’s building to something much larger than any one member of Gotham’s landed gentry. The Batman is young, dumb, and full of soft-spoken ennui 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “A pirate’s life for me” says an otherwise mild-mannered member of the landed gentry in the new action comedy “Our Flag Means Death.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Killing Eve,’ the SAG Awards, the State of the Union and more 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z They will bury beneath them all forces of imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom, village bosses and evil gentry. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The American gentry expected to govern their homelands, but Parliament wanted “to bind them in all cases whatsoever.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z One of the ways in which the gentry set themselves apart from others was through their purchase, consumption, and display of goods. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Almost 200 years ago, in England, the right to vote was the domain of property owners and the landed gentry — about one in six men. Opinion | Radical Ideas Need Quiet Spaces 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z And so, people of Arlington, Crystal Citizens, National Landed gentry: Hie thee to yonder attics and basements. Perspective | A mystery to ponder over breakfast: How did Cheerios Park get its name? 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Such a class of powerful, well-to-do people is called the gentry. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The American gentry did not win independence by themselves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, along with the colonial gentry, ordinary settlers in the colonies also participated in the frenzy of consumer spending on goods from Great Britain. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He said while Darwin came from a wealthy background, and had the might of Cambridge University and the landed gentry behind him, Wallace's upbringing was very different. Forgotten discoverer of natural selection honoured by Bill Bailey 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z “The Importance of Being Earnest” A member of the landed gentry creates a false identity to temporarily escape his societal obligations in Oscar Wilde’s riotous Victorian-era satire. 'Hamilton' in L.A., sing-along 'Sound of Music' at the Bowl: Your best weekend bets 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The gentry attained their status through education and civil service positions rather than through land ownership. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z William Thompson was not legally banished, but he lost the gentry’s business and then his lease. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Few women beyond the colonial gentry, however, had access to novels. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The seeds of the modern, gentry liberals’ destruction lie in their relentless negativity and the fact “their system is one of inherent cognitive dissonance.” Ex-Green Beret author sees threat from within U.S. among Antifa, Black Lives Matter 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z In Britain, the family made the unlikely transition to landed gentry, and ran a farm in Bedfordshire. Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Below the gentry was an urban middle class. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With a population that was mostly enslaved, more than 90 percent in some coastal parishes, the state’s gentry were hypersensitive to economic burdens. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The buying habits of both commoners and the rising colonial gentry fueled the consumer revolution, creating even stronger ties with Great Britain by means of a shared community of taste and ideas. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The flagship university in Vermont reflects its gentry liberal population, with a student body roughly 77% White and less than 2% Black. Professor rips new discrimination on campus against ‘whiteness’ 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z My goodness, are those pesky homeless people too much of an eyesore for Mercer Island’s gentry? Homelessness: Mercer Island vote 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Higher-income households — called “gentry” — move in and gradually alter neighborhood character. Why Metrorail is more than just a piece of transportation infrastructure 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Washington had been born into the lesser Virginia gentry in 1732. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z While these gentry were drafting their grievances during the Stamp Act Congress, other colonists showed their distaste for the new act by boycotting British goods and protesting in the streets. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The White gentry named their plantations after Sir Walter Scott novels and played at being British aristocrats, with jousts and “knightly” pageants and Queens of Love and Beauty. Perspective | Trump made official what has always been obvious: He’s Florida Man 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “That it is college-educated White people who are pushing this the most I think is so patronizing. The white, gentry liberals strike me as incredibly arrogant.” Biden’s renewed anti-bias training for feds spurs legal coalition fighting critical race theory 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “It’s a Grinling Gibbons,” Grandmother Thomasina tells her boastfully — a cornucopia of fruits and nuts and foliage evoking the lost grandeur of the British gentry. Review: Class struggle is murder in a lean, unsparing British debut mystery 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z In other words, the merchants, lawyers, and gentry who were most affected by the Stamp Act might have opposed it without losing their power over lower-ranking colonists. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In the Upper South, an aristocratic gentry, generation upon generation of whom had grown up with slavery, held a privileged place. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Strafford himself is a member of the Protestant gentry and therefore subject to numerous jibes and japes as he encounters the characters in question. Review: A murder most fortunate: John Banville kills off his own pen name for the better 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z More than a century later, King Henry VII prohibited quarreling gentry from leading armed retainers into the city square. Perspective | Gun laws were meant to ban private militants. Now, our hands are tied. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “Folklore’s” drollest song is also its most impressive bit of storytelling: a detailed portrait of the real-life woman who owned Swift’s Rhode Island mansion — and evidently scandalized the town’s gentry — decades before the singer did. Taylor Swift's 'Folklore': All 16 songs, ranked 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The entry of men like MacIntosh was therefore a step toward what historians now describe as a “revolution from below” that developed alongside the gentry’s “revolution from above,” sometimes cooperatively and sometimes in conflict. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z South Carolinian Nathaniel Heyward, a wealthy rice planter and member of the aristocratic gentry, came from an established family and sat atop the pyramid of southern slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z "The days when it was dominated by inherited wealth, the landed gentry and mass of largely white, middle-aged and elderly men, are changing," says Watts. Rihanna rockets onto Sunday Times Rich List 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z And so it was never the top level gentry, it was never the Lords and Ladies and Dukes and so on. What happens when a corporation colonizes a country? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z When, in the first half of the 14th century, the Chester monk Ranulf Higden wrote his history of the world in Latin, he bemoaned the dominance of the French language among the gentry in England. Rise up, rebel, revolt: how the English language betrays class and power 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Families like the Livingstons and DeLanceys of New York City composed an urban gentry who often competed in factional disputes to control colonial politics and enjoyed an opulent lifestyle in elegant urban townhouses. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But, in the United States at least, fencing isn’t just a pastime for the ossified, insular gentry. Could America's wokest sport really be ... fencing? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z They’re now splitting the progressive vote, with Senator Warren gaining in the polls with the white gentry liberals who make more than $100,000 a year. Editorials from around New York 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z What it was, it was minor gentry who were well connected but desperate enough financially to need this job. What happens when a corporation colonizes a country? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Bland was posing as a tutor then—an educated white, but still lower than the Virginia gentry, travelling from manor to manor, tending to the children of each estate. “Conduction” 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Love for the unique personality of each child likewise spread among the gentry and gradually seeped downward. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His research estimates that, at the lower end, the aristocracy and gentry still own 30% of the land, and potentially as much as 47% remains in hereditary aristocratic estates. By all means keep the Queen, but can we have our land back? | Phil McDuff 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z She was known among the New York art and party gentry as Anna Delvey, who introduced herself as a German heiress with a $60 million fortune. Snapshot of some of most notorious imposters in U.S. history 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z We were kind of Lowland Scottish gentry with social aspirations greater than our purse. What happens when a corporation colonizes a country? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Without that arrival, there is no landed Virginia gentry: no Washington, Jefferson or Madison. Opinion | Ralph Northam just keeps digging himself a deeper hole 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Not trusting these poor, unruly strangers with the power to elect assemblymen, the planter gentry refused to give them courts, county governments, or other institutions of law and order. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The land reforms angered Iran’s gentry and saw the rural poor move to the cities. Shah of Iran modernized his nation but vacillated in crisis 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The urban gentry kept up appearances, well-coiffed despite their private struggles as they strolled down streets lined with Belle Époque buildings. Perspective | An Italian car of a country, Argentina looks great but just doesn’t work 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The sort of — low gentry squires, vicar's sons, this sort of thing. What happens when a corporation colonizes a country? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A third of the land in England, formerly belonging to the monasteries, became the king’s property, and much of this was redistributed among England’s aristocracy and gentry. Review | The many mysteries of the powerful and deadly Thomas Cromwell 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Sometimes dissenters sided with the drive for independence, sometimes they were neutral, and sometimes they concluded that the Whig gentry were more dangerous than the Crown. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Something of a cause celebre in Victorian England, pitting the working class against the gentry, the Claimant case centred around Roger Tichborne, a 25-year-old aristocrat who was shipwrecked and presumed dead. How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Stretching from north of Charlottesville to southwest of Richmond, the 7th Congressional District is swaths of farmland, folklore, affluent suburbs, echoes of the Civil War and ghosts of the gentry. Cultural Divide: Books, poems and the Doors inspire liberal women in Virginia against Trump and conservatives - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z We rolled into San Antonio and stopped for a bite to eat in the King William district, the seat of the old gentry, which had gone to seed and then been regentrified. Alejandro Escovedo’s Return to the Border 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The CEO is the king, the board and senior executives are the courtiers and landed gentry, and the workers are the serfs. 3 theories that explain Trump’s approach to Putin and Russia. Which makes the most sense? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z A few gentry families clung to the forms of the Church of England and founded the Protestant Episcopal Church as the American branch of Anglicanism. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The local gentry would marshal the peasants, laborers and tribesmen into polls that would choose each Parliament. Don’t Fear Regime Change in Iran 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Mergers, highly consolidated industries, offshoring, outsourcing and technology leaps have all contributed to the loss middle-wage and “blue-collar gentry” jobs that defined America from the 1950s into the 1970s. Guaranteed jobs may not solve the Democrats’ bigger problem with many voters 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In contrast, the gentry are served a lavish feast of up to 16 courses of fish, meat, potage and elaborate sweetmeat constructions made from almond, honey and sugar. A stately home's Tudor takeover 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The shimmering black-and-white cinematography by Mart Taniel tracks the connections among a village's wolves and witches, landed gentry and scrabbling farmers. Estonian fantasy 'November' finds light in the darkness 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Noblemen and a group of wealthy commoners known as the gentry owned most of England’s farmland and rented it to peasant cultivators under long leases and fixed rents. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The quiet street is in Prospect Park South, an architectural enclave of hundred-year-old trees, landmark homes and an urban gentry of lawyers, chefs and jewelry designers. A Murder, a Conviction and a Never-Ending Case 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z After all, their struggles were similar, both kept down by the gentry. Guaranteed jobs may not solve the Democrats’ bigger problem with many voters 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z When the Constitution was first written, women were in some ways property of the landed gentry. Mark Bradford on making art in post-shock phase of the Trump era and how comics channel this moment 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Gordon was not a hipster designer but rather one who tapped into the quiet formality of modern Southern gentry. Review | Carolina Herrera, patron saint of Manhattan elegance, says farewell in classic style 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Their real incomes shrank as prices climbed, so innovative gentry tried to repair their fortunes with alternatives to traditional agriculture. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Of course, one could have issues with landed gentry - but it goes with territory. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The root of “gentrification” — “gentry” — can refer either to those of not-quite-aristocratic birth or to those who profit from land ownership; either to the well-off in general or to the rentier class in particular. When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z He is elected now - and suddenly, he is like a landed gentry. A New Coalition With Merkel? Not So Fast 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z It was only when he found himself ostracised by the county gentry that he became a radical. The bloody clash that changed Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In the Chesapeake and the Carolinas, a small group of wealthy planter gentry owned most slaves and the best land. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In the Oscar-nominated movie “The Social Network,” they were portrayed as uptight gentry, outwitted by Mr. Zuckerberg, the brilliant, budding tech mogul. How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z After all, Britain’s rigid class system made it easy enough for her to clearly identify the people doing the gentrifying: It was the gentry. When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “I reached over, took out my ballot — and did not vote for Hillary,” she said, talking over tea in her 1905 house, built when the peninsula served as a getaway for Portland’s gentry. A Washington county that went for Trump is shaken as immigrant neighbors start disappearing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Built by the region’s landed gentry, the homes feature original Gustavian furniture alongside walls painted with folkloric motifs or papered with delicate floral patterns. WSJ. Magazine’s October Cover: Fairy-Tale Looks for an Adventurous Fall 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z As violence escalated, angry crowds connected the gentry’s protests with their own grievances and applied the lessons of liberty to their own lives. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z "It's not farmers and the gentry, it's just normal people from all different backgrounds who are just serious about the sport," says Miss Abdelaoui. Why more women are getting into shooting - BBC News 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In the Revolutionary era, business leaders were merchants, landed gentry and Benjamin Franklin-style entrepreneurs and inventors. Analysis | Inside the call where CEOs found their moral compass and steered away from Trump 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z There was even a name for the outcome: The blue-collar gentry. Decent jobs without a BA degree are still around 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The club was opened in October 1889 by a handful of Lancashire gentry, who voted unanimously in favor of allowing women to play three days out of the week. Perspective | Most British Open clubs admitted women begrudgingly. This year’s site started 127 years ago. 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z He had no ties to the landed gentry or to the customs of a particular place. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Although the drama of the hit ITV reality show, Love Island, seem far removed from the landed gentry Austen depicted, the personalities portrayed, even now, are similar. Why is Jane Austen trending 200 years after her death? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z For gentry and noble born girls, this involved joining the household of a female relative or social superior in order to provide companionship. The Real Lives of Women in the Tudor Period 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In the final scenes Mariana appears to accept the status quo, an ethical compromise alluding to similar decisions made by Chile’s contemporary gentry. Dark times, reflected in weighty films at Karlovy Vary 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z He worries that society may be effectively returning itself to a state akin to pre-emancipation, when the vote was reserved for landed gentry. The rise of political apathy in two charts 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The established gentry took first place, and respectable blacks fell below middling whites but above white paupers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But in an age of social media, short attention spans and Love Island, what makes a woman who wrote about the 18th Century landed gentry so enduringly popular? Why is Jane Austen trending 200 years after her death? - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The key settings are Cambridge in all its ancient academic glory, a large, upper-middle-class home in suburban London and the ever-so-slightly crumbling mansion of Wiltshire landed gentry. 'Maurice': Unconventional love, conformity and isolation amid Britain's privileged classes 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z A full hour before the big race, the gentry push onto the balconies to get a primo viewing spot. Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming one of many sights at Churchill Downs 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The cathartic and symbiotic emotions experienced by most people are lost or ignored by the gentry class. Trump Is Expected to Sign Orders That Could Expand Access to Fossil Fuels 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Federalists also attracted the traditional gentry, including some planters like George Washington and the Rutledges of South Carolina. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z That class struggle, incidentally, also plays into Fawcett’s narrative: Coming from humble beginnings, the explorer fought against a gentry suspicious of lower-class outsiders. The existential brood of 'Lost City of Z's' Charlie Hunnam 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z We don’t need the city’s gentry pushing for tax measures that only add to gentrification while pretending to aid the poor. Homelessness property tax: Focus on wealthy 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z But a century later, the gentry had moved away and the area had become a red-light district. Tales from the bar - a tour of London's 'great pubs' - BBC News 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z But the working class, whoever they are, should remember that the Southern gentry kept poor whites and blacks down for a century by playing them off against each other. Dilemma of playing to the ‘working class’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Able justices gained their peers’ respect and won election to the House of Burgesses, and the county courts became key institutions for cementing the power of Virginia’s planter gentry. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The liberal gentry reside in hamlets along the coast. An Island of Rationality in Blue-State New England 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Well, let's see: The homes in Brooklyn Heights were built for the gentry -- those wealthy businessmen who commuted to Manhattan to work and... Destroying an 11-Apartment Structure to Build a Mansion 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z During the sweeping changes of the French Revolution, the new overseers of the Republic declared the Louvre would be a museum to be enjoyed by all, not just the gentry. TRAVEL: Paris luxury day trip package from London offers grand taste of French capital 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z But it really is jewel-like, an amethyst set down amid a warren of streets lined with “artisan dwellings” that are now much sought after by the post-crash moneyed gentry – and why not? John Banville’s Dublin, a city lost – and found 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Moralists protested the love of luxury, but ordinary free Americans joined the gentry in using consumer imports to brighten their lives and display their achievements. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But don’t underestimate the degree to which the venerable outfit is now dominated by gentry progressives who are well-to-do themselves and are more attached to the Democratic Party than they are to poor black families. The NAACP’s Charter-School Test 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Fifty miles west of the Hudson are the Catskill Mountains, where Manhattan’s gentry own vacation homes. American Polarization in Miniature 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z He went fox hunting with the gentry he despised, and made fun of Marx’s attempts to ride a horse. Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z With its spas and Black Sea coast, Crimea has been a popular tourist resort since the Tsarist era, when Anton Chekhov wrote about illicit liaisons among the fashionable gentry vacationing on the Yalta promenade. Promised prosperity never arrived in Russian-held Crimea, locals say 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The gentry often charged that ambitious office seekers lacked virtue because they put their local or personal needs ahead of the elite’s ideas of the common good. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z When assigned to research her family’s ancestry, she presented not the names of distant gentry, but the names of slaves owned by her great-grandparents. For Anne Holton, Tim Kaine’s Wife, Elite Circles Are Old Turf 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z This is the modern equivalent of hungry, threadbare peasants wielding torches and pitchforks, storming the gates of the landed gentry. Growing frustrations are fueling a populist uprising 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The odds are stacked against her, with horse racing typically the purview of the landed gentry, and an expensive endeavor at that. Underdog 'Dark Horse' is cute but underwhelming 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The fact that the American gentry apparently sees little need to stash cash off-shore is of obvious public concern. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The colonial gentry had not intended the rhetoric of liberty to empower their social inferiors, but the momentum of equality moved steadily in that direction. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z To the local gentry, the garden was an act of vandalism. The Psychedelic Garden of Tuscany 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z And Mr. Sanders will be hard-pressed to stop her unless he can appeal to more core Democratic constituencies than his own base among young people and the gentry left. Trumped in Iowa 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z On vacation in England, Stone Barrington must untangle a deadly mystery among the local gentry. Washington Post bestsellers Jan. 24, 2016 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In the late 19th century this region’s sulphurous springs and luxury bathing houses were a magnet for Cairo’s well-heeled gentry. The future of the Egyptian revolution 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z For them, the Revolution had unleashed an audacious and even dangerous challenge to civil order and gentry power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z These crowds were full of lunch-bucket conservatives who expressed frustration with the Republican gentry. For Republicans, Mounting Fears of Lasting Split 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z When she was very young, her family, which came from the gentry of feudal times, owned animals and employed gardeners and housekeepers. An Iranian Woman’s Battle to End Stoning 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Today, though, there is more parity among teams, and the Royals are fallen gentry no more. How to Find Your Replacement Team for the Playoffs 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z The drama was a success for the U.K.’s Channel 4 when it aired earlier this year, drawing some comparisons to “Downton Abbey” and its portrait of England’s landed gentry facing 20th-century disruption. ‘Indian Summers’ brings the heat to PBS’ ‘Masterpiece’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z How could the people control their republic if the gentry stayed on top? Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The drama was a success for the U.K.'s Channel 4 when it aired earlier this year, drawing some comparisons to "Downton Abbey" and its portrait of England's landed gentry facing 20th-century disruption. Power, desire and the end of British empire are combustible in PBS drama 'Indian Summers' 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z "Which is why, instead of being educated at home as members of the gentry, they attended a grammar school in Newark," he said. National Civil War Centre unveils 400-year-old school graffiti to public - BBC News 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z For a while, the game enchanted the gentry, with landlords fielding teams to play other estates. A Passion for Hurling, the All-Ireland Game 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z They also opted for Greek forms of civic governance for their city, which was managed by a council made up of the local gentry – exactly the same set-up as in Athens, Corinth or Delphi. Tolerant and multicultural, Palmyra stood for everything Isis hates | Tim Whitmarsh 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The gentry who carried them in their saddle bags would have nothing to do with the crusty pastry, which they threw to the hounds, but devoured the grey pork inside. Shakespeare's 'toad' Richard is Leicester's star draw 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The gentry, meanwhile, continued to play long golf in parkland fields and on the firm, short-grass linksland near the sea. It Only Took 600 Years for Golf to Return to the Masses 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z In growing cities with stark social stratification, a new gentry developed a new linguistic self-consciousness—more English grammars were published between 1750 and 1800 than had ever appeared before that time. How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Anything accomplished henceforth simply adds to the untouchable gentry. The hushed spirit of Zach Johnson : The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Demelza’s initial perplexed attitude, followed by her eventual mastery of the ways of the gentry, gives this fourth episode most of its cheery tone. 'Poldark' Episode 4 Recap: Ignominy vs. Constancy 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The landed gentry, the high-born, the educated and established—they didn’t come here. Donald Trump’s Appeal—and Its Limits 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “In England,” Mays writes, “men carried arms routinely: the lower classes knives, the gentry swords.” Man Bound To Tree Has Right Hand Cut Off In 14th Century Blood Feud 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s rare that I disagree with David Boaz over at Cato, my more usual attitude is the doffed cap and tugged forelock of the peasantry meeting the gentry. Venezuela's Not Suffering From Socialism But From Anti-Marketism 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z That thrived under the patronage of the landed gentry between the wars, was revived under Communism, but is now withering on the vine. Missing the old Gypsy orchestras 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Not unlike the scenes in TV's Downton Abbey, the fight to save the country home was a very real concern for the landed gentry in the face of heavy taxation. Who holds the keys to our mansions? 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z A major subplot concerns Galahad’s mentorship of Eggsy, who has been recruited by Galahad’s employer: the fictional Kingsman, an independent intelligence agency founded after World War I by members of the gentry. ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’: James Bond meets Jack Bauer 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Yet among the latest contenders to cross the Atlantic is another public schoolboy, Tom Rainey, last year's winner of a Young Brits award by "outfitters to the gentry" Jack Wills. Adventurers in a class of their own 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “In the murky corridors of Communist power, an impressive number of party gentry progeny, or the offspring of the Mao-era nomenklatura, have been implicated in corrupt practices,” he wrote in an article last October. In China’s Antigraft Campaign, Small Victories and Bigger Doubts 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z On special occasions landed gentry would organise meals for their workers, and Christmas dinner would be seen as an opportunity to stock up on calories at the expense of the rich. Christmas menus: turtles to turkeys 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Europe's landed gentry have taken generations to perfect the sneering attitude that to spend money ostentatiously is somehow vulgar. China's controversial philanthropist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In one sketch, he essays a member of the Southern gentry around the time of the Civil War. The History of the Fart Joke Preparing to dig into a prerace meal in the track infield, Lee attributed Stewart’s appeal partly to his eagerness to compete on any level, a rarity among Nascar’s gentry. Tony Stewart Returns to Sprint Cup Series and Lots of Support 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z "The local gentry got so fed up they took an action out in Westminster Hall, so he had to close down the business. "He was an enormous celebrity, very good at self-publicity. Up to our necks in a diabolical element 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It's a long-standing tradition that's closely tied to a history of royal dress, military uniforms and gentry sports like horseback riding and hunting. Modern meets tradition at London's menswear shows 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z While people do hate the idea of a landed gentry with huge trust funds—think of the 1 Percent owning more than a third of all wealth—that’s not actually what’s driving the troubling trends. Piketty's Capital: An Economist's Inequality Ideas Are All the Rage 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Today, only about 1 percent of Britons have a coat of arms, a privilege traditionally reserved for nobility and gentry, although anyone can apply for one. Step Forward Into Past for British Gay Couples: Coats of Arms 2014-05-09T23:45:03Z People are getting killed and there is a fear among the middle-class gentry on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and so on, of real revolution. Our sad “Mad Men” revolution: How consumerism co-opted rebellion 2014-05-04T11:00:00Z Adamant that the daughters of the gentry should be educated in schools, rather than at home as was then normal, he advocated that they study languages and become financially literate. Essays: In Praise of the Midlands 2014-04-22T02:48:45Z He relies heavily on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, such as Pliny the Elder, melded with the contemporary and practical silviculture practised by the landed gentry. In retrospect: Sylva 2014-03-13T17:20:24.852Z As money becomes pooled into ever fewer hands, the idle landed gentry make ever more money. Obamacare and inequality: A healthy dose of redistribution 2014-01-29T17:29:55Z The surrounding streets and squares of Knightsbridge have long harbored pieds-a-terres, occasional residences for the very rich, but in the old days the owners were landed gentry, old money, English. Inside London's Most Expensive Address 2014-01-03T08:05:26Z Since its founding in 1912, the party was led by learned men, landed gentry and nobility who were black, yes, but who were very much in their own class of blackness. When I met Mandela 2013-12-05T21:46:00Z Participants posed as Georgian gentry, promenading the streets in authentic costumes, while horse-drawn carriage rides were on offer on the city's mall. More than 20,000 attend Georgian Day 2013-11-30T22:00:14Z To remove that financial support for MPs, the deputy PM argued, would turn the clock back 150 years by turning politics into a hobby for the landed gentry. Clegg defends energy bill expenses 2013-11-07T10:53:12Z During the communist revolution, from the 1920s to early 1950s, it was widely used to refer to landholders and gentry who would bully those beneath them. VIDEO: How the internet brings China bling 2013-10-31T12:07:39Z But he believed that the best were to be found in the gentry, in the professional classes. The ancient Chinese exam that inspired modern job recruitment 2013-07-22T23:41:08Z Lady Plymouth was quite active within the Red Cross and, like a lot of landed gentry in the war, they opened up their home to help. 'Hidden' gems give WWI insight 2013-07-21T11:39:51Z I am told this was the creation of McKinsey, consultants to the gentry and architects of such exquisite constructs as the restructuring of the NHS and the Ministry of Defence. Bureacracy has become the BBC's dieback disease 2012-11-13T20:30:01Z Hitler built the Wolf’s Lair as his headquarters on the Eastern Front; it covered over 600 acres of remote woodland that was once the site of estates for the landed gentry of Prussia. Ketrzyn Journal: Restoring the Walls, and History, at a Hitler Command Post 2012-09-18T01:40:05Z Most of the film’s action takes place in the public houses, ringed on all sides by gentry. Spike Lee to Stick With His Knicks 2012-08-04T01:51:54Z Shepherd said the Assembly Rooms was named by the Georgian gentry of Edinburgh 225 years ago and it was not up to him to change the name. Assembly battle as Fringe begins 2012-08-03T00:15:12Z It included the upper class proper, the families of noble birth; and it included also the country gentry. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Books were only intended for the gentry and people as have grown too old for anything else, and even then they’re bad for their eyes.” The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Nor were these gentry one whit less fearless, enterprising, and lawless than their brethren of the sea. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z Fewer and fewer carriages of the local gentry were to be seen standing outside its doors. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Many of the lower orders are quite as much gentry at heart, and far more so, than those who hide their unworthiness beneath the convenient shadow of a "family tree." Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z The linguistic learning of English nuns at different periods was similar to that of the gentry outside the convent. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Don’t let any of the gentry over there hear you. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z The spectacle of a few of these native gentry hanging by the roadside had such an enlivening effect on the Javanese imagination, that the roads were built as if by magic. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z I had not been long in the city before I made the acquaintance of some of these gentry, in a somewhat dramatic manner. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z The gentry who are now resident landlords, maintaining large and costly establishments, would migrate to other countries and more genial climes. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z It cannot be doubted that the gentry and the substantial middle class appreciated them; up to the very eve of the Dissolution legacies to monastic houses are a common feature in wills. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z One by one the strongholds still held by the French were wrested from their grasp, and but very few of the invaders founded families who kept their place among the gentry of the land. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z She appointed an agent to reside at Rome, and a papal agent, a Scotsman named George Conn, accredited to her, was soon engaged in effecting conversions amongst the English gentry and nobility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Whiteness of paper and blackness of type suggested that Walker & Son periodically renewed this aristocrat among auction announcements—perhaps to kindle a selling spirit among the landed gentry, a notoriously conservative and hold-tight class. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Butchers, bakers, poulterers, butter-makers would be alike involved in one common ruin; for the houses of the gentry would be empty, and desolation would overspread the land! Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z This social amalgamation between the country gentry and the “new gentlemen,” who had made their money in trade, was naturally reflected in the nunneries. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The dragoons were under Sir Arthur Aston, and most of the nobles and richer gentry enlisted in Lord Bernard Stuart's regiment of gentlemen, nicknamed "The Show Troop." Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Then, it was decided to have a house-party the day but one after Christmas Day, and invitations had to be sent out to all the gentry of the neighbourhood. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The Rising Sun Tavern was then a gathering place for the gentry and without doubt he saw them there. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z The residences of the nobility and gentry are chiefly, as has been said, in the western part of the metropolis. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z Thus the nobles, the gentry and the superior rank of burgess—the upper and the upper-middle classes—sent their daughters to nunneries. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The eldest married in London, for none of the gentry of Devonshire would have given their daughter in marriage to a Carne. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z The neighboring gentry are bent, as conacre has ceased to pay, on supplanting the population by cattle. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I shall, therefore, recount a little affair I had with one of these gentry, as it is indeed quite necessary I should, if I am to give any true idea of "the good old times." Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 2012-04-05T02:00:37.337Z Joining the 21st century would be a monumental achievement for the green-jacketed gentry. On Golf: Uncomfortable Day at the Augusta National Boys Club 2012-04-05T00:50:01Z The Gracedieu boarders nearly all bear the names of neighbouring gentry and one was the daughter of Lord Beaumont. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Many of the gentry of the neighbourhood were present. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z Anthony Wood says that Herricks’s sermons were florid and witty, and that he was “beloved by the neighbouring gentry.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Ideological control was not to the Confucians, as some Marxian critics aver,55 a rather naïve duplicity by which the gentry of China could maintain themselves in power indefinitely. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z Margaret was called out; the animal exhibited; under-valued by the dealer in the style so characteristic of such gentry; and his good qualifications well vouched for by the young groom. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The Jeffries family have always ranked among the gentry of Boston, and have maintained that position from the date of the earliest settlement, to the present time. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Most of the gentry are there--if they have not gone farther. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z There's mighty little work for them as go against the gentry. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Good-nature or incaution, however, led him into the society of some idle youths, who committed occasional depredations in the parks of the surrounding gentry. William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground 2012-03-29T02:00:13.153Z He was a good judge of men, both of sailors, landsmen, gentry, and men of business. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The Loyalists, to a great extent, sprung from and represented the old gentry of the country. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z "Then," I said indignantly, "it is time for the gentry to----" "Take the lead and govern?" he rejoined. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Now there is a population of two thousand, no church, no school, no gentry, no one of the better class. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Now your graver gentry having little or no kind of chance in aiming at the one—unless they laid hold of the other,——pray what do you think would become of them?——Why, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z I have had a large parish, which, after four parochial districts have been taken from it, still contains more than six thousand persons, the population consisting of a well-proportioned mixture of gentry, tradesmen, and poor. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z Everyone wanted to help, and one could not but admire the zeal with which these gentry emptied drawers and boxes on the floor, and scrambled for the contents. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z I hear from Doury that the gentry are gathering at Cahors, with the view of combining, as you suggest, and checking the people. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z And the gentry far and wide would send their carriages, and the servants must be fed. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The errors which… alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The mean age at death among the gentry was 55 years, while among the workers it was 20-1/2 years. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z He begged me to stop, he offered to double my wages, but I told him I must go, that I was a respectable woman, and had served only gentry who knew how to behave themselves. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z For a moment, the wild idea of a whole gentry fleeing like hares before their peasantry, had not seemed so very wild. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Swim in it they do, more shame to you gentry! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z "You will be about the first of the gentry," he muttered, "as has been down this pit without paying his footing." The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Their very crimes were brought upon them by the gentry class. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Not only the gentry and educated classes, but the mass of the people, regard with deep veneration the sages upon whose authority their moral and social education for so many generations has reposed. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Members of the gentry openly joined the rioters, some out of sheer hatred of the race, others for the sport of the thing, still others honestly succumbing to the contagion of beastliness. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z His acknowledged taste in classical architecture obtained for him sufficient employment from court, and many of the nobility and gentry, so that he realized a handsome fortune. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z He subsequently became a wine and sugar merchant, achieved considerable wealth, married well, and was accepted by the gentry of the city. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers 2012-03-15T02:00:31.610Z When the bulk of the landed gentry could barely read and write, and divided their time between fox-hunting and guzzling. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Our constitution recognizes no royal rulers, no lords, no titled gentry. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z He perceived but too clearly that all these gentry felt humbled and uncomfortable in his presence. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z The nobility and gentry have too often silenced the popular clamor by admitting its leaders to the rank and privileges of "the higher orders." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Wealth was not unevenly distributed, and though the patroon system had created in New York a landed gentry, this class was small, and its influence was only one of many. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z This falleth out well; for I have bidden all the gentry round unto my house warming, and these pleasantries may afford them a cheerful and innocent entertainment. Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z She thought the change would be the best thing for me after my trouble, and she thought a deal of my being with real gentry. Nurse Heatherdale's Story 2012-03-06T03:00:21.190Z Interludes were provided for the queen’s entertainment as she moved from town to town both at the houses of the higher gentry and by the common people. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z "Yes, I think it might be worse; par exemple, if such gentry as those yonder were to have their way with us." Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Some of the gentry, following the old Squire's example, held aloof, but others put their hundreds into it, not much believing in it but finding it an amusing gamble. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Stop, ma'am, these sort of gentry are monstrous bad company for a lady—So I'll just see him to the door, and then I'll see him outside the door.—Ma'am, Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z Varying in everything else, in one thing these warlike gentry agreed. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The fox-hunting gentry in pink were coming across the field in a body, spurs glistening and curly horns striking fire 274 in the sunshine. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z By this time the gentry, as well as the barons and prelates, took part in the legislature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z But his family and his name were old, and by virtue of long possession he stood high among the gentry of the county. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z VI purports to contain the names of all the gentry in thirty counties. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z He belonged, not to the aristocracy of Berne, but to the subordinate gentry of the Pays de Vaud. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z These persons formed a country gentry, and were the great men of their respective counties. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It was still, however, essentially an assembly of notables, lay and clerical, at which the gentry, though technically eligible, do not seem to have been directly represented. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z "Well, Quakers or drab-coated gentry like yourself!" the man replied, unmoved. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Said, No, nor had he ever heard otherwise than that they were come of antient ancestry and old gentry, and used the said arms. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z A further affliction was the ill-will of the neighbouring clergy and gentry. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Unlike many of the gentry of his time, Colonel Lee was a thorough-going patriot. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z All that the gentry could do was to depress the lower orders, and this they did at every opportunity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It is most curious as to architecture, and is a most interesting specimen of the houses of the gentry of former days. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-20T03:00:18.340Z By series of these in the muniment-rooms of our nobility and gentry, and other places, both family lines and territorial descent may be clearly established for a great length of time. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Everywhere monks who had left their abbeys and nuns who had left their convents swarmed on the roads, with sturdy beggars, homeless peasants, broken gentry. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Men in office, the wealthy, and above all, those who laid claim to good descent, were the gentry in the country. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z She also attracted the gentry to her capital by forming a Magyar body-guard from the cadets of noble families. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Many noblemen and gentlemen in the county of Bedford have since followed the example: it has become general with the gentry in Hampshire, and the ladies have left off wearing powder.” England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z The funeral certificates of the nobility and gentry preserved at the College are most authentic and useful documents, though apparently little known even amongst antiquaries. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z He will find you a lodging there, and if the accommodation be rough, and your room-fellow what you see him," shrugging his shoulders, "at least you will have space enough and follow good gentry. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z I'm afraid I am not well posted as regards the police, never expecting to have much use for the gentry. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z The lesser gentry were protected against the tyranny of the magnates, encouraged to appear at court and taxed for military service by the royal treasury direct—so as to draw them closer to the crown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The decayed condition of this temple has long been a reproach to the resident gentry. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Lists of English gentry for certain counties occur temp. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z But since that cursed battle at Coutras set us down and put these Huguenots up, there is an end of gentry almost. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z There is a tremendous competition between these gentry at Bahia, as I had discovered while here in the 'Falcon.' The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z The clergy, the chief official class, were naturally less ignorant than the gentry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z He remembers his duty to the landed gentry, and on his return from his unsuccessful quest remains several days to enjoy the squire's hospitality. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Appended to it are the arms of the gentry of Lincolnshire, and an account of all the battles fought by the English. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The part played by the gentry in local and central affairs25 is the great point of historical interest in Gneist's eyes. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Her mind worked so nimbly and practically, that the eyes of the enraptured gentry were round with awe. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z The landless younger sons of the gentry and the Servian and Vlach immigrants provided him with excellent and practically inexhaustible military material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The gentry, ignorant and sensual, were given to profuse hospitality, regardless of mortgaged acres and embarrassed lands. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z It contains the arms of many of the gentry of Scotland and the Northern Counties of England, which are not to be found in any previous work. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The juries made their presentments in respect of large masses of peasantry, under the preponderating influence of the gentry and without much chance for the verification of particular instances. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The five voters took up a position of honour, seats in the carriages were found for three or four of the more important gentry, and seven or eight others got to horse. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Throughout the latter part of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, the Hungarian gentry underwent a cruel discipline at the hands of their Habsburg kings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z He hinted to the half-mounted gentry that if they liked it they might volunteer as active agents against the misguided youths who were preparing to turn Ireland topsy-turvy. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z In consequence of the cheapness of titles in foreign countries, our esquires and gentry are frequently undervalued by strangers, who can form no idea of an untitled aristocracy. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Some of the lesser gentry even went so far as openly to plunder the country houses whose owners had fled from them in fear. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The Rector, the Alderman, and one or two of the neighbouring gentry shared the honour; and faced as well as they could the hooting and yelling, and the occasional missile. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The snake in the grass, whose existence puzzled the gentry so. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The gentry are arming right and left, my mother says, in case the people should be ill-advised enough to rise. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The interest taken by the Cornish gentry in these civil dissensions may account for the frequency of the rose in the arms of Cornwall families. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z After the wholesale business is over, the country gentry generally flock in, laying out their money in stage-plays, taverns, music-houses, toys, puppet-shows, &c., and the whole concludes with a day for the sale of horses. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' 2012-02-14T03:00:27.797Z Many of the young gentry smoke, I am told. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The sojourner in the Slave States is struck with the wretched and degraded appearance of a class of people called by the slaveholders, “poor white folks,” and “the tallow-faced gentry,” from their pallid complexion. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z They ranked Mr. Hayes with the gentry, and their existence had made his second marriage—with Jack Rock the butcher's sister—a mésalliance of a pronounced order. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z In ancient times the houses in these very "closes" or "wynds" were inhabited by the nobility and gentry. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Too proud to descend to intimacy with the farmers and small shopkeepers of the neighborhood, my position excluded me from acquaintance with the gentry; and thus I stood between both, unknown to either. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z An ox was roasted whole, and three hogsheads of beer distributed to the poor inhabitants; while a splendid entertainment was provided for the governor and the gentry of the island, at the public expense. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z In many instances, they are so adroit in purloining articles, that they are almost competent to give advice and instruction to the “light-fingered gentry” of “London and its vicinity.” Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The notions of Protestantism prevalent among the people, not the peasants only, but the gentry, are little short of ludicrous. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z That there were a great many, not merely of the gentry, but of the smallest statesmen and even peasants who favoured King James, I was rejoiced to perceive. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Perhaps—I can not now say if it were so—perhaps I resented the disdainful distance with which the gentry treated me, as we met in the hunting-field or the coursing-ground. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The nobility and gentry were taxed at a much higher rate, for example, a duke, for his eldest son, had to pay £30. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z “These several gentry,” with their wives and daughters, aunts, sisters, and cousins, constitute the first class among the white population, or more properly speaking, form the aristocracy of Antigua. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z In silence he watched them leave the room shaking their heads over the incomprehensible ways of the gentry. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Up to and after the death of Elizabeth of England all the Catholic gentry of the "ould stock" were educated in Spain and Portugal. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z I have never held truck with the gentry of the road, though, indeed, my pockets suffer for the ease of my conscience. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Dockyard people of lower rank don’t know small gentry—small gentry don’t know tradespeople—Commissioner don’t know anybody.’” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z The houses of the coloured gentry are neatly and tastefully furnished. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The place is, besides, a great resort with the whiskered gentry. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z In these times the more gentry there are living in a place, the better it is for the country all round. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The walks, however, were empty and deserted, it being the fashion among the gentry of the town rather to favour Hyde Park at this hour. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z They had power to transport royalists and those who could not produce good characters, and supported themselves by a special tax of 10% on the incomes of the royalist gentry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The mutton introduced at the table of the gentry is super-excellent — small, tender, and not too fat; something like the Welsh mutton so justly esteemed by the opulent in England. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The legal business of the country had consequently greatly increased, the profession of the law became highly honourable, and the gentry and the nobility considered the study of it a necessary part of education. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z No scheme, he said, could be carried out without the co-operation of the Government, the Army,429 the Law, and the country gentry. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Thus the author of the Spectator says——"We must bear with this false modesty in our young nobility and gentry, till they cease at Oxford and Cambridge to grow dumb in the study of eloquence." A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z The advent of one of these gentry in an English settlement is regarded with much the same sort of feeling as a vagrant cockroach, when he makes his appearance unannounced in a modern drawing-room. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z In the Upper House he was the spokesman of the gentry against the magnates, whose inordinate privileges he would have curtailed or abolished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Thus the poor artisans and sailors were outdone by the gentry. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He wished the country gentry encouraged to raise a militia, for he was anxious to call the country out of that enervated condition that the menace of twenty thousand men from France could shake it. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z He never invoked the assistance of the law against such gentry. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Personally, I don’t think these gentry are the vermin my father-in-law makes them out to be; he brackets them with the rabbits; but I mean to make friends with them—if I can. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z Barnett's business was for the most part local; and struggling shopkeepers, farmers, small professional men, and a number of the country gentry hurried to withdraw their money. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z But, what was perhaps the next best thing, the gentry of the county, headed by Lord Granville, took the matter up. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z These gentry, having failed to induce anyone to produce their plays, fall furiously upon those authors who succeed. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Faith! mademoiselle, I don't send bouquets myself; I consider it so commonplace, so vulgar, that I am not tempted to imitate these gentry. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Your gentry people, most o’ them anyhow, are just like dogs in the manger. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z This letter opens up an interesting view of the amusements which at the time were introduced into the houses of the nobility and gentry during Christmas-tide. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z The country gentry and the commercial classes vied with each other in demanding an extension of the system. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Down in Texas a companion o’ mine, when out shooting, ran right agin one o’ these gentry; a great she one it was, with two cubs alongside of her. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z You see, young gentlemen, the gentry very likely look upon the glen and woods round here as a kind of happy hunting-ground. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Well, the keepers had been very harsh with him, and the gentry were harsh with him, and eke the law itself. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z With these gentry, for whom I retain a respect which has filled me with regret at the recent course of events, I spent a good deal of my large leisure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Still fewer in number were the neighbouring gentry. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z “In case,” said Allan, “we have a visit from any more of these gentry, let us light a fire.” The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Aping the gentry!' he said, with a sneer, addressing Mrs. Edwards as he dismounted, the sound of hoof-beats having brought her to the dairy door. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Ha! and gentry live on the fat o’ the land! From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z His first letter from Cawood to Cecil told that he had not been well received, that the gentry were not “well-affected to godly religion and among the common people many superstitious practices remained.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z “If these long-coated gentry had a motive for keeping you, they wouldna have let you go, or they would have had you back again.” Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z Now, as none of “the resident gentry,” as they were called, who visited at the castle have anything at all to do with our story, I shall not fatigue my readers by introducing them. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Then, as Gallic manners and customs prevailed and extended beyond court circles till adulation of the French monarch became a creed, the Spanish gentry abandoned their ancient sport. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The gentry folks, Master Archie, think me a terrible man; and they wonder I don’t go and plough, or something. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The gentry and taverners were kept well supplied with liquor that never paid duty. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z And he is not the only one; claims have been raining in from similar gentry. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z He spent a week paying unwelcome visits to the neighbouring gentry who looked askance at the crimson chariot and still more askance at the degenerate heir of the Lovelys. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z If Bertie had looked behind he would have perceived these gentry following close upon his heels all the time. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z At the same time he desired to admit the Roman Catholic gentry of property to membership of the House of Commons, a proposal that was the logical corollary of the Relief Act of 1792. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He knew no god but the god of the landed gentry. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z This Daniel McCarty was the founder of another eminent family of the Northern Neck which intermarried in early days with many of the best known of the early Potomac gentry. Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck 2011-11-26T03:00:16.703Z I wonder is it to be putting humps on themselves the gentry has them things down on top o' them! Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Superior as he was in intelligence and culture to his fellow students and to the young gentry of Williamsburg, Jefferson, at the age of twenty-five, was not yet an American; he was distinctly a Virginian. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Every suspected Royalist was closely watched, and the magazines of arms in the country-houses of the gentry were for the most part removed into the strong places. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z To it he seemed in his later life to have transferred the greater part of his hatred of the landed gentry. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Then I wish to God it was yourself we had in it again!" lamented Stephen Casey; "it was better for us when the gentry was managing their own business. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z It may please your Majesty to remember in the year of God 1566, the said Earl of Morton, with divers other nobility and gentry, were declared rebels to your Majesty.... Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 2011-11-20T03:00:16.107Z To be with hounds, to charge full tilt Blackthorns that made the gentry wilt Was his ambition and his hope. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Thus his new supporters could only come from amongst the discontented and undisciplined Border lords and gentry, and long before these moved to join him the romantic conquest of Scotland was over. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The new vicar had hardly been a week in the parish ere he was warned by the gentry to beware of this old man. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z However an Englishman or an Englishwoman may boast of their intimacy with "the nobility and gentry," there is one infallible rule by which the falsehood of these pretensions may be detected. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z But we share that very respectable condition with half the nobility and gentry in the kingdom. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Everything is saleable in Venice, even the wives of the gentry, if you pay well. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z The Yorkshire gentry made an attempt to neutralize the county, but a local struggle soon began, and Newcastle thereupon prepared to invade Yorkshire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Here, all the two seasons, being the general confluence of gentry. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z But rarer than all it would have been to see Washington himself deal with one of those gentry, who should have called at Mount Vernon with a view of favoring the world with such particulars. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z In these societies the ruling class of England, the lay professions and landed gentry mingling with the clergy, has been bred. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Cities were also getting larger, and the tradesmen joined with the established gentry in thinking slightingly of the farming population. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z The earls of Warwick, Essex and Manchester and other nobles and gentry of their party possessed great wealth and territorial influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Lakes and rivers are ruined by the commercial gentry's waste acid, dye, oil, gas, etc., and the very air we breathe is poisoned by the fumes of the money-makers' chimneys. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z The gentry who cultivate the art of "taking the call" are quite another breed. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Already in the later Middle Ages Oxford had received, and, it seems, too complacently received, young scions of the aristocracy and gentry, the precursors of the noblemen and the silk-gowned gentleman-commoners of a later day. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Among the manufacturers and gentry of the neighbourhood, Branwell found few to welcome him, and from these he turned to the artists and literary men he had previously known at Halifax. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z He was murmuring something quite ridiculous—something about "strictly for the gentry." The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The reader will remember that the term "squatter," with us, means roughly the landed gentry; in its original sense the word has no meaning now. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z If he's like the rest of these gentry that will be ma�ana. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z "Your brother-in-law, madam, Dr. Hall," said he, seeing that she did not wish him to leave on the instant, "is well esteemed by the Catholic gentry, as I hear." Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z The floor was covered with the seated forms of officials and gentry clothed in white and wearing their jewels. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z |
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