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  • He was well spoken, gentlemenly, very intelligent, honest, sincere, and had a charisma that warmed people's hearts and gave them hope.

    Obama: Will you be my running mate? 2008

  • Not IDD himself of course who is scholarly in demeanour and possesses amirable gentlemenly qualities.

    How prejudice can destroy prejudice 2008

  • Steering Committee consider the expansion of the activities designed to support the central purpose of the University to include the development of honor among men and of gentlemenly conduct.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1964

  • They are gentlemenly men, young men for the most part (for their elders are at home minding the main business), young Russians or

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • I must say their ray is a gentlemenly sort of thing.

    The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940

  • We can distinguish sea captains, lawyers in politics, commandantes, oldest residents, gentlemenly good for nothings, shipping agents and commission dealers, coffee planters and men who are "on the beach" with unerring eye.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917

  • We can distinguish sea captains, lawyers in politics, commandantes, oldest residents, gentlemenly good for nothings, shipping agents and commission dealers, coffee planters and men who are "on the beach" with unerring eye.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917

  • We can distinguish sea captains, lawyers in politics, commandantes, oldest residents, gentlemenly good for nothings, shipping agents and commission dealers, coffee planters and men who are "on the beach" with unerring eye.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Then the gentlemenly old bird -- for in the meantime he had grown old -- felt hurt, and now he flew high over the house.

    Tales of Two Countries Alexander Lange Kielland 1877

  • Mr. Billington, as the hero, was pathetic and gentlemenly; and the other parts were well supported, particularly that of an old negro, by Mr. George Jamison, and that of the Indian, by Mr. Phillips.

    New Adelphi 1861

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