The university, which once prided itself on molding the courtly Virginia gentleman, staged a mock dinner last week for 180 students.

Our Virginia gentleman is pacified for the moment.

You're being quite the Virginia gentleman.

Initially the high-spirited and independent-minded northern beauty felt little attraction to the grave, reserved Virginia gentleman, who was almost thirty years her senior.

He was an honest man, open as the sunrise, cut from the same pattern as Lee: old family, Virginia gentleman, man of honor, man of duty.

No Virginia gentleman would have done so, that was certain.

He seemed destined for a career in the church, but he elected rather to return to the life of a Virginia gentleman, residing at "Paradise".

Some real Virginia gentlemen, the squirrels with segregation status.

Before the year was out, Poe, maintaining the lifestyle of a Virginia gentleman of substance, had accumulated a debt of $2,000.