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Meanings of english gentlewoman in English

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Usage of english gentlewoman in English
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An English gentlewoman renowned in her day for her piety and charity.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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She was brought up as good a Protestant as any English gentlewoman.
Lazarre
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I set the necessary example, as an English gentlewoman at the head of her household.
Man and Wife
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Poor Maura, she had none of the reticent pride and shame of an English gentlewoman.
The Long Vacation
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How is an English gentlewoman to shake off the prejudices of caste and declare herself free?
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.
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This pair were types; Grace, of a young English gentlewoman, and Jael Dence of a villager by unbroken descent.
Put Yourself in His Place
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My Muse wears a straighter and a longer petticoat; and I flatter myself she has the manners of an English gentlewoman.
The Divine Fire
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He would school himself until he was a quiet, domesticated English country-gentleman-respectableand respected, fit husband for a delicately-bredEnglish gentlewoman.
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
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Refined, modest, with every feeling of an English gentlewoman, she was the very last, one would have thought, to act so.
East Lynne
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Besides, the school I had been graduating in of late unfitted me for a young English gentlewoman's shades and intervolved descents of emotion.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
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Mrs. Huntington was a lady of polished manner and cultivated intellect, belonging to what might be termed the old school of English gentlewomen.
The Sea-Witch; Or, The African Quadroon: A Story of the Slave Co...
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"She is exactly my idea of a young English gentlewoman," she had said after her first visit.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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"No," Miss Hodge kept assuring herself, "there's nothing in the world quite so splendid as an English gentlewoman."
The Rains Came
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"An English gentlewoman offers a fit alliance to any man living who seeks her hand in marriage," said Miss Pink.
My Lady's Money
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"She is the very personification of an old-fashioned English gentlewoman," he said once to Cedric; "but she is hardly modern enough in her ideas.
Herb of Grace
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