Mr. Henry Baine, a private gentleman of Middlesex, had, in his lifetime, built and endowed an hospital for the maintenance of forty poor maidens.
His royal highness was divested of all the external marks of royalty, and lived like a private gentleman, cultivating the virtues of a social life, and enjoying the best fruits of conjugal felicity.
The Minister declares it to have been left by mistake, but would be happy to see Mr Jay as a private gentleman.
You spoke to me the last evening in the character of a private gentleman, as well as of a public Minister, and in both without reserve.
He was never received in his public capacity, nor in any other character than that of a private gentleman empowered to act as Agent for the United States.
They were on horseback, and each man was furnished with a brace of pistols in his holsters, wearing in other respects only the usual arms of a private gentleman.
That new minister plenipotentiary I beg leave to recommend most earnestly to congress, not only as a public man, but also as a private gentleman.
The Town-house is called Romer: They say 'twas anciently the House of a private Gentleman, who made a Present of it to the City.
Voltaire answered, 'That if he had never been any thing but a private gentleman, in all probability, he had never been troubled with that visit.
Peter followed in the retinue of this embassage as a private gentleman of wealth, with the servants suitable for his station.
Though he attempted here no secrecy as to his rank, he requested to be treated only as a private gentleman.
The tzar, dressed as a private gentleman, was in one of the last carriages in the train of his embassadors.
I have told them that asked, 'Sooner a nunnery, or to wed a private gentleman who is not of the blood royal.
But as for me I will go into a nunnery, or marry a private gentleman, or turn Protestant.
Besides, Wallenstein, being a private gentleman holding no office, may if he so chooses write letters even to Gustavus about .
To do this required a large outlay of time and money; and, notwithstanding Washington had an ample fortune for a private gentleman of moderate tastes, he perceived the necessity of practising economy.
He was then as a private gentleman, dressed usually in some colored coat (the only one recollected was brown, with bright buttons), and black on his lower limbs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private gentleman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
