"gently" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Although not of noble birth, the young elf was rich enough, handsome enough, and charming enough to make his way into the society of the gently bred.
- Those modes may serve very well among your own kind, but let me remind you, English women are gently bred.
- But I am not a 'gently bred young woman.'
- He is not fit company for a gently bred young woman," Tom told her as they rode back to the West End in a filthy hackney.
- I understand that he is gently bred, for all he is employed as a sec-" Her hand flew to cover her mouth.
- And yes, Tom is gently bred, for his father is a minister and the younger son of a baronet.
- What sort of man was he, to so forget his station that he would enter into an affaire with a gently bred young woman?
- You are gently bred, Cecilia.
- "I am gently bred?"
- The Waites, Gilmans, Eliots and Marshes are the "gently bred" families of Innsmouth.
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