shentleman

"I rob you not hard," WILLIAM incidentally remarks, pounding at your chest as if it were a parquet flooring he was polishing; "but I strong so I can break a shentleman's ribs."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 Various

"Without wind, eh?" interposed Captain Derrick -- "Like your friend the 'shentleman'?

The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889

“This,” Duncan said, “was speaking like a reasonable shentleman;” and so the evening passed peaceably off.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Pelzepup — ofer and apove the evidence of holy writ, and those writers who have been quoted by that aggurate and learned shentleman, we are informed, by profane history, of the pribbles and pranks of the old serpent, in the bortents and oragles of antiquity, as you will find in that most excellent historian

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

"Can ye no change the note, old shentleman?" quo 'Donald.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various

"He's axtra fond o 'the feeshin'," was the reply, "for a 'that he's a foreign shentleman."

The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

He wass at de hotel himself wid hiss shentleman lars 'night at de dance.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

'Lor', to think o 'that! and sure I thoucht he was a shentleman!'

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

"I don'd seen der shentleman anyvere," replied a nasal voice, a voice that had the genuine Jewish sound.

Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905

Munro's skipper of "The Vital Spark" and his remark about his Mate, "He wass a perfect shentleman, he would neffer hurt your feelings unless he was trying."

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900