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Meanings of genteel people in inglés

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Usage of genteel people in inglés
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Well, genteel people will have to stay away, then, that's all.
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
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It was a long, two-story frame building, that had once been inhabited by genteel people.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
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Very genteel people, who wish to be secluded and to ride somewhat in style, take the coupé.
Rollo in Switzerland
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But us, the genteel people here inside Mercury, we have much purer, finer metals than they do!
Edge of Infinity
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For my part it does not seem natural to me for genteel people to go any where else.
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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She was highly respected by her neighbours, and visited by the most genteel people of the surrounding country.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
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And that is not any worse than some would-be genteel people manage when the warm season comes on, every year.
Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young
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Etiquette does not permit genteel people to recognize in the streets a man with a shabby coat though he be their brother.
Thrift
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"Who is thinking of your carmen and grocers!- Ispeaknow only of genteel people."
Home as Found / Sequel to "Homeward Bound"
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"You may find, madam," said Moodie, "a great many genteel people going some where else.
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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"But now-nowwe shall mix with genteel people," said Ellen suddenly, as she was laying the table.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
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"I know he did, and so do all sailors; but genteel people, now-a-days, say nothing but Hurl-Gate, or Whirl-Gate."
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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'He may have intended this to introduce his book the better among genteel people, who might be unwilling to read too grave a treatise.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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"Mr. Jones is only a watchmaker, and therefore has no business to push himself and family into the company of genteel people."
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
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Genteel people across language varieties
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