gentries

"NOTICE to Informe the gentries: Find Dogs and some to be sold."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 Various

In the Old World the best flavor and significance of a race may possible need to be look’d for in its “upper classes, ” its gentries, its court, its ètat major.

Our Eminent Visitors. November Boughs 1892

In the Old World the best flavor and significance of a race may possibly need to be look'd for in its "upper classes," its gentries, its court, its état major.

November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

In the Old World the best flavor and significance of a race may possibly need to be look'd for in its "upper classes," its gentries, its court, its _état major_.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

And gradually we begin to realize that the gentries’ scheme involved the completion of that task.

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