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  • Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • "What gen'leman are you referrin 'to, sir?" asks the Leatherneck, staring to his front.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "What gen'leman are you referrin 'to, sir?" asks the Leatherneck, staring to his front.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "What gen'leman are you referrin 'to, sir?" asks the Leatherneck, staring to his front.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "'E' it the gen'leman with all his might and main," said the policeman.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • "You no tink dat four officers and de passenger gen'leman all eat muchee food; very good appeta-tites havee."

    The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

  • "He come 'teal de coffee out ob de coppers, an' w'en I 'peak to him like gen'leman he hit um in the eyeball, him."

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

  • "You tink youself one fine gen'leman now, I s'pose?" he said, with a snort of indignation, when Jake went down into the waist in all this grand array after prayers on the poop.

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

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