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    gent


    1. when he leaves the cavalry and becomes a city gent


    2. His guest smiled and extended his hand, when the younger man clasped it the old gent said, “I'm pulling for ya,” and he turned and stepped off the porch and headed up the road toward town


    3. While I was clearing a table a loud gent hailed me, “Hey laddie!” said he, “Three more here and be quick about it!” And in a jiffy I was to the bar and back to his table with his order


    4. a gruff gent by the name of Josiah Brown


    5. Only Longleaf and Bosco knew who this gent was—none other than Lt


    6. “Maybe we can help the old gent out


    7. An elderly gent with a walking stick, moving at a decent clip, was closing in fast


    8. As he was pulling the pint he said to Gary, “Didn’t I see you in here last night, sir? You were with another gent, sitting over where you are now


    9. gent without fabric softeners, because they can dry out a baby’s


    10. Yes, she was fitting for a hoopskirt and sitting on the massive porch of her family plantation home, sipping mint juleps; surely every gent in the county would have been courting her, even if she was rather plain yet subtly attractive, much like the woman in the book Gone with the Wind

    11. Feltus smiled as he read the brief note laced with dry humour, much like what he would expect from a British gent, which was rather uncharacteristic of this solemn judge who had always professed to stay uninvolved in cases though somehow managed to always add some bit of advice to ongoing investigations


    12. wise gent, I would find the man of my salvation, as far as legal


    13. Weasel was out of his depth, “ Ayatollah…?” As the gent in question was actually dead, Mark felt he needed to get more current:


    14. “What"ll ya have?” the gent asked


    15. The Blue Posts is only a hundred meters or so from the glamorous Ritz Hotel on Piccadilly and has been described as “a handsome old gent, more loyal butler than landed-gentry in a solid and dependable vein”


    16. No one in Rudgard seemed to know a thing about a body being carried from the hill, though several people admitted to visiting the place where "the whitest light ever blinded me from every star in heaven" as one gent in a basement barber shop described it


    17. The short stocky gent with an ugly sweat stained cow cocky


    18. As the glossy horses pranced by Merrion square Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, waiting, saw salutes being given to the gent with the topper and raised also his new black cap with fingers greased by porksteak paper


    19. Police! Some H2O for a gent fainted


    20. Gardner I hope hell come on Monday as he said at the same time four I hate people who come at all hours answer the door you think its the vegetables then its somebody and you all undressed or the door of the filthy sloppy kitchen blows open the day old frostyface Goodwin called about the concert in Lombard street and I just after dinner all flushed and tossed with boiling old stew dont look at me professor I had to say Im a fright yes but he was a real old gent in his way it was impossible to be more respectful nobody to say youre out you have to peep out through the blind like the messengerboy today I thought it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first and I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door he must have been a bit late because it was l/4 after 3 when I saw the 2 Dedalus girls coming from school I never know the time even that watch he gave me never seems to go properly Id want to get it looked after when I threw the penny to that lame sailor for England home and beauty when I was whistling there is a charming girl I love and I hadnt even put on my clean shift or powdered myself or a thing then this day week were to go to Belfast just as well he has to go to Ennis his fathers anniversary the 27th it wouldnt be pleasant if he did suppose our rooms at the hotel were beside each other and any fooling went on in the newbed I couldnt tell him to stop and not bother me with him in the next room or perhaps some protestant clergyman with a cough knocking on the wall then hed never believe the next day we didnt do something its all very well a husband but you cant fool a lover after me telling him we never did anything of course he didnt believe me no its better hes going where he is besides something always happens with him the time going to the Mallow concert at Maryborough ordering boiling soup for the two of us then the bell rang out he walks down the platform with the soup splashing about taking spoonfuls of it hadnt he the nerve and the waiter after him making a holy show of us screeching and confusion for the engine to start but he wouldnt pay till he finished it the two gentlemen in the 3rd class carriage said he was quite right so he was too hes so pigheaded sometimes when he gets a thing into his head a good job he was able to open the carriage door with his knife or theyd have taken us on to Cork I suppose that was done out of revenge on him O I love jaunting in a train or a car with lovely soft cushions I wonder will he take a 1st class for me he might want to do it in the train by tipping the guard well O I suppose therell be the usual idiots of men gaping at us with their eyes as stupid as ever they can possibly be that was an exceptional man that common workman that left us alone in the carriage that day going to Howth Id like to find out something about him l or 2 tunnels perhaps then you have to look out of the window all the nicer then coming back suppose I never came back what would they say eloped with him that gets you on on the stage the last concert I sang at where its over a year ago when was it St Teresas hall Clarendon St little chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like on account of father being in the army and my singing the absentminded beggar and wearing a brooch for Lord Roberts when I had the map of it all and Poldy not Irish enough was it him managed it this time I wouldnt put it past him like he got me on to sing in the Stabat Mater by going around saying he was putting Lead Kindly Light to music I put him up to that till the jesuits found out he was a freemason thumping the piano lead Thou me on copied from some old opera yes and he was

    21. “What’s this for?” I asked the assistant manager, a seedy-looking gent who appeared to have had all the blood drained out of his body in an earlier fright


    22. " Also, a pair of blacks which he was going to put into the break recalled vividly to his mind a pair which he had sold to Faulkner in '19, for a hundred guineas, and which Faulkner had sold for a hundred and sixty two months later—any gent who could disprove this statement being offered the privilege of calling Mr


    23. The dog, a boxer as it turned out, lunged at the door, and the gent with the rifle used his leg to push the dog back from the doorway


    24. The old gent, he opened the door 'isself an' shut it again when I druv off


    25. "Not the gent who sent you the confession," said Rose


    26. "You see," said another, advancing until all could see it was Hannahan in the light, "considered in all its aspects, Your Honor, we've decided, you're such a fine gent, we—"


    27. ‘You see,’ said another, advancing until all could see it was Hannahan in the light, ‘considered in all its aspects, your Honor, we’ve decided, you’re such a fine gent, we—’


    28. “What a gent! I guess he’d drain the embalming fluid off his dead grandma, but he’d do it nice


    29. There's no offence—just means a rich gent, decent enough, but don't know his way about


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    Synonyms for "gent"

    gand gent ghent blighter bloke chap cuss fella feller fellow lad

    "gent" definitions

    informal abbreviation of `gentleman'


    a boy or man


    port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry