Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression.
1 The house in Evelina Road was no mere haunt of quiet gentility .
2 He walked with a step that was almost affected in its gentility .
3 The gentility of farming is emphasized by a hundred precepts from Hesiod.
4 The whole record has an old-fashioned gentility that makes its frankness tragic.
5 Where once gentility abode was now but a rancid and rude incontinence.
6 One of his name had not lacked, indeed, for instructions in gentility .
7 The house is new, and has a trim, light-colored interior of half - gentility .
8 Despite your Christianity, and despite your gentility -you are a liar.
9 Evening parties wore got up for their benefit, as Westbourne gentility dictated.
10 I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility .
11 Our landlady's daughter is a young lady of some pretensions to gentility .
12 Everybody who pretended to gentility in the place belonged to it.
13 She was reducing the establishment to the narrowest compass compatible with decent gentility .
14 But her gentility withered at the touch of the sweet air.
15 At this, Dorothea's expression softened, through bafflement to a new gentility .
16 She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.
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