Usar "genteel" en una oración

1. Miss Jones and her ancient familial home now stood in much reduced status in the middle of this quiet and genteel suburban sprawl

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2. It occurred to her there and then that if they couldn’t get to the crawling thing behind her, they would probably take just as much delight in wreaking havoc upon the body of one of the genteel classes

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3. She was even more impressed when she realised that her centenarian relative, having dispensed with a life of genteel blackmail in her early eighties, had subsequently taught herself not only the arts of silver surfing, but had also majored as a writer of hacking and viral software on a par with any young eastern European hotshot

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4. reduced status in the middle of this quiet and genteel suburban

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5. wreaking havoc upon the body of one of the genteel classes

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6. The ensemble was ideal for one of those sedate portraits so frequently adorning the halls and mantles of the genteel

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7. Old money on a slow genteel slide to ruin

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8. �Being the genteel lady that she was, I would use a place where I wouldn't be out of place

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9. A genteel lady like her would not bury this material

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10. It was divided into flats, in an affluent, stable neighbourhood of genteel respectability

11. What judges in America have wrought, following transnational principles, Judge Bork asserts, “is a coup d’etat—slow moving and genteel, but a coup d’etat nevertheless

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12. ‗It‘s not only homophobic yobs who might feel intimidated by a pair of giant testicles and a not insignificant penis flapping in the breeze as you cycle through this genteel suburb

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13. She has that very genteel, diplomatic, friendly exterior, but there are nerves of steel inside

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14. Obviously this charming young woman was capable of careful calculation that she masked behind her genteel Southern grace

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15. Though Wickland could have expected as much from Peter, he would never have believed that Martha, the kind and properly genteel Southern woman, was capable of such conduct

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16. His curiosity was now fully piqued with the revelation of a possible indiscretion on the part of the seemingly genteel Martha Spalding

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17. They liked to think of themselves as genteel

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18. They knew Alice had been reared in the genteel seclusion of a convent and would be innocent of the sexual innuendos of the words she was so innocently using

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19. "Ah--mate," he would coo again, sighing; while Manby, very genteel and self-effacing in a corner, appeared to be studying a Russian newspaper

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20. She was a genteel woman who called no one mum

21. "Oh don't mention it, Miss Neumann-Schultz," was the pleasant answer of that genteel and trustful lady; and she suggested that Priscilla should take with her a well-recommended leg of mutton she had that day for sale as well

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22. Vickerton vaguely, who did not follow; she was so genteel that she could never have enough of aspirates

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23. supremacist living and ways as a genteel tradition

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24. She was getting to be a closet feminist being too old and genteel and old-fashioned to be an overt one

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25. Their rich owners having joined the ranks of the genteel poor, courtesy of the Revolution

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26. The building spoke of genteel Victorian prosperity, of top hats and frock coats, and ladies with wasp waists in crinoline and bonnets

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27. "wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night

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28. Among those who failed to appear were "the genteel lady and her old-maidish daughter," who had only been lodgers in the house for the last fortnight, but had several times complained of the noise and uproar in Katerina Ivanovna's room, especially when Marmeladov had come

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29. Then she would make a rush at the crowd; if she noticed any decently dressed person stopping to look, she immediately appealed to him to see what these children "from a genteel, one may say aristocratic, house" had been brought to

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30. The law was allowed to be genteel enough; many young men, who had chambers in the Temple, made a very good appearance in the first circles, and drove about town in very knowing gigs

31. "But why should you think," said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, "that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex?"

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32. Pumblechook was in favor of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance

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33. There was one thing she didn't like and that was the tracts on the walks; but the matron was such a nice person to deal with, so genteel

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34. He receives these wares not only from treacherous valets or maids, but frequently from genteel ruffians who have gained the confidence and affection of trusting women

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35. With this gentleman, who took me home soon after our acquaintance commenced, I lived near eight months in which time, my constant complaisance and docility, my attention to deserve his confidence and love, and a conduct, in general, devoid of the least art and founded on my sincere regard and esteem for him, won and attached him so firmly to me, that, after having generously trusted me with a genteel, independent settlement, proceeding to heap marks of affection on me, he appointed me, by an authentic will, his sole heiress and executrix: a disposition which he did not outlive two months, being taken from me by a violent cold that he contracted, as he unadvisedly ran to the window, on an alarm of fire at some streets distant, and stood there naked-breasted, and exposed to the fatal impressions of a damp night air

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36. On the nightset for the occasion, the company met in the assembly-room, in the New-inns, where we had bespoke a light genteel supper, and had M’Lachlan, the fiddler, over from Ayr, for the purpose

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37. This was no genteel resort

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38. Her soft skin hadn’t wrinkled randomly, hadn’t puckered her face in unflattering ways; every line seemed to have been designed to maintain a gentle and genteel countenance and to have been executed by a seamstress to royalty

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39. This left behind the curious companions of solitary clerks and traveling salesmen along with the occasional former dowager who, having exhausted or squandered the money from selling the family silver, was waiting out genteel poverty in one rented room with a three-bar electric fire

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40. “Genteel starvation, I think—and hope

41. Eventually, the actual cinema must have fallen into such disrepair that it was beyond renovation, because when I returned to the neighborhood after my two years on Merseyside, I found it demolished and replaced by an unlovely residential block funded by a housing trust for low-income families of this genteel district

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42. Tess could whistle like most other country-girls, though the accomplishment was one which she did not care to profess in genteel company

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43. The early mornings were still sufficiently cool to render a fire acceptable in the large room wherein they breakfasted; and, by Mrs Crick's orders, who held that he was too genteel to mess at their table, it was Angel Clare's custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow

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44. " It is very probable, too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by everyone, to show those "wretched contemptible lodgers" that she knew "how to do things, how to entertain" and that she had been brought up "in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel's family" and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children's rags at night

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45. Among those who failed to appear were "the genteel lady and her old‐maidish daughter," who had only been lodgers in the house for the last fortnight, but had several times complained of the noise and uproar in Katerina Ivanovna's room, especially when Marmeladov had come back drunk

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46. immediately appealed to him to see what these children "from a genteel, one may say aristocratic, house" had been brought to

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47. The caretaker was so struck with their innocent appearance, and with the elegance of Tess's gown hanging across a chair, her silk stockings beside it, the pretty parasol, and the other habits in which she had arrived because she had none else, that her first indignation at the effrontery of tramps and vagabonds gave way to a momentary sentimentality over this genteel elopement, as it seemed

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48. It was the same reason the waiting room they made her pass back through was so horrifically genteel, with its potted plants and piped-in music: so she would know that what happened after they fit the mask over her mouth and nose and turned on the gas was nobody’s fault but her own

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49. For who of any consequence in Middlemarch was not connected or at least acquainted with the Vincys? They were old manufacturers, and had kept a good house for three generations, in which there had naturally been much intermarrying with neighbors more or less decidedly genteel

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50. He had now achieved this, and from all who did not think it a bad precedent, his honorable exertions had won him due esteem; but in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service

51. From his earliest employment as an errandboy in a seaport, he had looked through the windows of the moneychangers as other boys look through the windows of the pastrycooks; the fascination had wrought itself gradually into a deep special passion; he meant, when he had property, to do many things, one of them being to marry a genteel young person; but these were all accidents and joys that imagination could dispense with

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52. Still in the Dissenting line, eh? Still godly? Or taken to the Church as more genteel?"

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53. "Well, it is near the Church, and a genteel situation

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54. Samantha Hawes seemed to be a very contemporary Southern woman, pretty, very confident, genteel and proper Southern from her looks, anyway

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55. He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious

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56. To prevent its being expected, she had fixed on the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield parish, the White House being only just large enough to receive herself and her servants, and allow a spare room for a friend, of which she made a very particular point

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57. Four thousand a year is a pretty estate, and he seems a very genteel, steady young man, so I hope Miss Julia will be very happy

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58. Susan, who had an innate taste for the genteel and well-appointed, was eager to hear, and Fanny could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme

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59. “But why should you think,” said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, “that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex?”

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60. He receives these wares not only from treacherous valets or maids, but frequently from genteel ruffians, who have gained the confidence and affection of trusting women

61. The owner of this house, as Alyosha knew, was a bedridden old woman, living with her daughter, who had been a genteel maid-servant in generals' families in Petersburg

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62. A woman of genteel appearance, wearing a cotton gown, was sitting on a chair by the bed on the left

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63. Beggars, especially genteel beggars, ought never to show themselves, but to ask for charity through the newspapers

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64. I advised her yesterday to put you in an almshouse, a genteel one, don't disturb yourself; there'll be nothing humiliating; I believe that's what she'll do

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65. The end of the table was taken up by a huge tray with twenty-five glasses on it and a basket with ordinary French bread cut into a number of slices, as one sees it in genteel boarding-schools for boys or girls

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66. But she persisted and said all she had to say: she said she had been there before already in the summer "with a very genteel lady from the town," and stayed there too for two whole days till the steamer came, and what they had to put up with did not bear thinking of

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67. Since the upper classes of the Christian nations lost faith in Church Christianity, the art of those upper classes has separated itself from the art of the rest of the people, and there have been two arts,—the art of the people and genteel art

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68. He was dressed in trico-tights, with a cloak of skins, wore a wig and an artificial beard, and with white, weak genteel hands (his easy movements, and especially the shape of his stomach and his lack of muscle revealed the actor) beat an impossible sword with an unnatural hammer in a way in which no one ever uses a hammer; and at the same time, opening his mouth in a strange way, he sang something incomprehensible

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69. Sir, is it parliamentary, is it genteel, or agreeable to common sense, that a hundred and forty men should sit here listening to what one man says, and he having recourse to papers in every one's reach? I had rather consult the papers for myself: for I should not garble them, taking just what suited me, but should read the whole

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70. They would be known at the fairs as Moseer and Madame Bottotte, and would do the genteel and compact gift-sale graft from the buggy—having the necessary capital now—and would accept the buggy and horse as a wedding present, knowing that an old friend with forty-three thousand four hundred dollars still left in the bank would not begrudge this small gift to a couple just starting out in life, and with deep regard for him and all inquiring friends, they were, etc

71. The Shabby Genteel Story, 50

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