Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

* Henry Dashwood — a wealthy gentleman who dies at the beginning of the story.

To the east was the ramshackle LC & D Railway, on the west the up-market LB & SCR — the Brighton Line, which went to Worthing, the fashionable, expensive town the gentleman who found baby Jack was travelling to at the time ( and after which Jack was named ).

When he was nominated to serve at the capital, Zhang was escorted by carriage — a symbol of his official status — to Luoyang, where he became a court gentleman working for the Imperial Secretariat.

: This may include the gentleman juggler — using everyday objects such as hats, canes, plates, wine bottles and cigars ; comedy juggling — the juggling skill is secondary to the comic character and jokes of the performer ; sport themed — the performers dress in sporting attire and juggle sports equipment such as tennis racquets, footballs, or even snooker balls ; traditional circus style — presenting pure skill with precision, skill and panache.

He was kindly received by the Queen and her husband, King Francis II, and, as he himself put it: " The Queen recompensed me more liberally and jobbies honourably than I had deserved " — receiving 600 Crowns and the post and salary of gentleman of the French King's Chamber.

Diamond rejected opportunities to apply for a commission — that is, become an officer — saying " nobody can make a gentleman out of me.

The first grave gentleman shakes the box, puts in his hand, and takes out a card, from which he reads the number — then the other grave gentleman turns to that number in the book, and pronounces the name of the juror so numbered, whose name and address are then taken down as one of the forty-eight ; and this process is repeated forty-eight times ... it is said — I say nothing, but it is said — that those two gentlemen know each juror just as well by his number as by his name: and so, when the first takes out a card and finds 253, for example, written on it — if he knows that 253 would vote for the people, and against the Crown, it is said he gives out ( as solemn as he looks ), not 253, but, say, 255, or some loyal number ; and thus a safe man is put on the list.

He '... sheathed one half of his sword in the body of the said gentleman ' — but is arrested by the gang employed by Lord Fellamar and taken before a magistrate who commits him to Gatehouse.

In this connection, too, one may quote the old story, told by some — very improbably — of James II, of the monarch who replied to a lady petitioning him to make her son a gentleman, " I could make him a nobleman, but God Almighty could not make him a gentleman.

In 1489 King Henry VII of England commissioned the translation of De re militari into English " so every gentleman born to arms and all manner of men of war, captains, soldiers, vituallers and all others would know how they ought to behave in the feats of wars and battles ".

" Butterfly kneels in front of her son and asks him, " Do you know that that gentleman had dared to think that your mother would take you in her arms and walk to town, through the wind and rain, to earn your bread and clothes.

" I know not ," he was heard to say, " why I should not vye with Cromwell, since I had once as great a power as he had, and greater too, and am as good a gentleman ".

Placing under this a crystal glass so that the piece of iron was suspended inside the goblet, the old woman commanded the figure to strike the iron against the glass in such a manner as she wished, saying at the same time to the figure: " I command you, Mandragora, in the name of those to whom you are bound to give obedience, to know if the gentleman present will be happy in the journey which lie is about to make.

" Missouri Democrat John S. Phelps answered: " Does the gentleman desire to know whether he shall be prohibited from committing that crime?

In The Socialist Case in 1937 he had written: ‘ in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves .’ This expression was mercilessly exploited by the Conservatives and won a long-lasting notoriety ; it was often misquoted as ‘ the man in Whitehall knows best ’, which was, as Jay often protested, exactly the opposite of his general conclusion.

During the course of the book, the children get to know the " poor learned gentleman " and befriend him and call him Jimmy.

He tries to set her up with gentleman they know, but Spitfire explains that dating has been a bit weird for her ever since she was de-aged 48 years.

Occasional literary references point to the novel and, naturally the classics and we know of family visits especially with Madame Pisani ( of whom he appears to have been extraordinarily fond ) " to view the paintings " He was, presumably, culturally no different to any other highly educated European gentleman. Invitations are to be found among the papers in the Royal Irish Academy-to M. Gounod's " Sappho ", first performed in Paris in 1851, Verdi's " Rigoletto " Il Trovatore ", " La Traviata and Les Vespres Siciliennes ", Schumann's " Manfred "; Donizetti's " Lucia di Lammermoor " and Berlioz ' " The Infant Christ ". Such advanced musical tastes and opportunities usually come early in life and by were presumably instilled in Hortense and Henry by the Pisani's rather than by Haliday's provincial and decidedly dour family. It is worth noting, but no more, that Giacomo Puccini, the Italian opera composer, was born in Lucca, Haliday's other home town in 1859.

: " It would be a pleasure, could I but know he was alive, to even yet thank that kind and considerate gentleman, LT. Nugen, for his forbearance and energetic efforts to contribute to the safety and comfort of the panic-stricken citizens.

The strong emotions the hotel evoked in Victorians and its guests and protectors is exemplified in the statement made by an irate gentleman, as workers raised the sign above the front entrance: ' Anyone who doesn't know this is The Empress shouldn't be staying here.

Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

There he attempted to live the life of a gentleman, which brought him into contact with Ekaterina Lyschin, the niece of one of his wealthy friends.

Although he was not handsome, Isabella admired him for his strength and bravery ; she also regarded him as a gentleman.

Albert Richardson, who knew him personally in the 1850s, wrote that Kit Carson was " a gentleman by instinct, upright, pure, and simple-hearted, beloved alike by Indians, Mexicans, and Americans ".

A certain John Henning, charged with running away with a chest of tea, defended himself with the claim that " he was ordered to carry it by a gentleman in black " who told him to carry it to Petticoat-lane.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

James B. McCreary, a Democrat from Kentucky, challenged Reed's authority to count him as present ; Reed replied, " The Chair is making a statement of fact that the gentleman from Kentucky is present.

King Pedro, being apprised of the fervent love borne him by Lisa, who thereof is sick, comforts her, and forthwith gives her in marriage to a young gentleman, and having kissed her on the brow, ever after professes himself her knight.

:“ This gentleman has for several years stood at the head of our commercial community and he carries with him the esteem and kind wishes of the whole foreign society, honourably acquired by a long career of private charity and public spirit .”

They became estranged when Edward spurned the French diplomatic marriage that Warwick was seeking for him and instead married Elizabeth Woodville, widow of an obscure Lancastrian gentleman, in secret in 1464.

In The Sunday Times for 16 February 1969, Paul Jennings wrote of him: " If I ever knew a gentleman, it was Kenneth Horne.

He did well at Sandhurst, which gave him the " officer and gentleman " bearing that was to be his trademark.

In 1749, Richardson's female friends started asking him to create a male figure as virtuous as his heroines " Pamela " and " Clarissa " in order to " give the world his idea of a good man and fine gentleman combined ".

" He stated that a list and description of about 100 choice seedlings of 1838 and 1839, which had been purchased in England and grown in the garden of Mr. G. C. Thornburn of Astoria, N. Y. had been furnished to him by that gentleman and would be offered for sale in 1840.

The gentleman tells him that they kept a kitchen-maid in the house-yet does not mention that she is his own daughter-and the prince asks him to let her try the slipper.

The boy had a deep sense of class and intellectual superiority and was entirely uncomfortable in the presence of factory workers who referred to him as " the young gentleman ".

Gainsbourg changed his first name to Serge feeling that this was representative of his Russian background and because, as Jane Birkin relates: “ Lucien reminded him of a gentleman ’ s hairdresser .” He chose Gainsbourg as his last name in homage to the English painter Thomas Gainsborough whom he admired.

Tim Finnegan lived in Walken streetA gentleman Irish, mighty oddHe had a brogue both rich and sweetAnd to rise in the world he carried a hodYou see he'd a sort of a tipplin ' wayWith a love for the liquor he was bornAnd to send him on his way each day, He'd a drop of the craythur every morn '

Livius opposed but Postumius browbeat him into resigning and joining the surrender party, calling him a " sacrosanct gentleman.