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Example sentences for "gentleman from"

  • The gentleman commenced his address by contradicting the statements made by a gentleman from Massachusetts, and my worthy friends from Virginia and Georgia, (Messrs.

  • Mr. MACON said, the most regular way for the gentleman from Virginia to obtain his object, would be to move to have the bill committed to a Committee of the Whole, and made the order of the day for the 4th of March.

  • A gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. DAVIS) had said, that a person was in that State delivering commissions into the hands of every man who was so abandoned as to receive them.

  • Every member must have been struck with an observation of a gentleman from Albany.

  • For a gentleman from Tennessee, or Genesee, or Lake Champlain, there may be some prospect of advantage.

  • I was traveling home from Topeka, and on the railroad train I met a gentleman from Atchison--an intimate friend of this young lawyer--and I was congratulating him on the reformation of our mutual friend.

  • The Doctor tells the following story at the expense of a Southern gentleman: A good anecdote is told by a gentleman from one of the Southern States, in regard to these Free State prisoners, when under the charge of Captain Hampton.

  • Here he was merely introduced to the guests--it was a men's party--as a gentleman from England on business.

  • The men there had seen a large yacht, two ladies and a gentleman from it had visited them.

  • I took the opportunity of driving over with a gentleman from Upwold,' said Mrs. Brown-Smith.

  • Here is a gentleman from England, major,' the colonel replied, 'who has concluded to locate himself here if the amount of compensation suits him.

  • Truly he was a man worth knowing--a gentleman from crown to sole.

  • When they told me that you sat at dice with a gentleman from London I was angry at your neglect.

  • The man who had induced her to elope with him sat at dice with a gentleman from London!

  • He is at dice with a gentleman from London.

  • In a more recent case, a gentleman from Indiana, in his indignation against a gentleman from Illinois, called the Illinois member "an ass.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each column; exhorted them; gentleman born; gentleman commoner; gentleman friend; gentleman from; gentleman like; gentleman named; gentleman should; geological structure; land area; move forward; never understood; not going; presented myself; prison walls; quite true; radiotelephone communications; read prayers; rural districts; should fail; steps leading; surrender their; swift glance; that boy; what you have done