gintleman

‘“Thank your honour,” says my father, gettin’ courage, “you were always a civil spoken gintleman, God rest your honour.”

The Purcell Papers 2003

"A knight arriant is a rale gintleman," says he, "goin 'round the world for sport, with a swoord by his side, takin' whatever he plazes for himself, and that's a knight arriant," says he.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

Bloody Mike welcomed Frank with enthusiasm, and introduced him to the company as the 'gintleman that had thrated all hands last night.'

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

"Faith an 'sure," rejoined our ragged comrade Mick Donovan innocently enough, as we hurried along the middle deck towards the fore part of the ship, under the tutelage of the corporal, "I'll pass the gintleman aisy an 'civilly if he ounly comes foreninst me an' gives me a chance, begorrah, to go by him!"

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

-- 'Oh,' says I, 'for the matter ov that, I'm sure ye're too honourable a gintleman to hould spite for what was done in fair play, an' you know your reverence wouldn't be easy until you had a thrial ov me. '

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 Various

"Lord, sir," said the Tinker, archly, "if I had known that poor Neddy had two sitch friends in court, I'd have seen he was a gintleman, and treated him as sitch."

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

"The gintleman manes he objects to the persadin's."

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

I've no doubt she _did_ get absolution, for she told me that Father Macmanus was "a raal gintleman."

She and I, Volume 1

If the gintleman has any difficulty seein 'it now, he won't long.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

An 'that's what ye cahl it when ye're kapin' company with one young gintleman an 'don't want another young gintleman to come in an' help the two of ye?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various