1 Placing one foot upon the step by which the gentry mounted, she covered the said step with mud, and then, ascending higher, attained the desired position beside the coachman.
2 Evidently he was of opinion that, since the gentry declined to receive the visitor, the latter must certainly be a rogue.
3 Your sort, you gentry, can never get beyond refined submission or refined indignation, and that's no good.
4 The good he has done to everybody here, from his peasants up to the gentry, is incalculable.
5 After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were fetched and they all played games together.
6 In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals.
7 The chief magnates sat on high-backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room.
8 The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done.
9 At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew.
10 An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills.
11 There now, the gentry and merchants have gone away and left us to perish.
12 Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.
13 He thought very little of anybody, simples or gentry.
14 Ralph, a Jew, got up to look the very spit and image of the landed gentry, supplied from directing City companies--that was certain--tons of money; and they had no child.
15 So none of them would walk by the lily pool at night, only now when the sun shone and the gentry still sat at table.