Sir Launcelot is an eighteenth-century gentleman who rides about the country in armour, attended by his comic squire, Timothy Crabshaw, redressing grievances.

H& was a tall, lean, wiry man, dressed like an eighteenth-century gentleman.

The novel takes the form of the memoirs of an eighteenth-century gentleman, the Richard Carvel of the title, and runs to eight volumes.

"An eighteenth-century gentleman, a figure from another era, one of a breed of decorators that is extinct today," remembers couturier Hubert de Givenchy, Geffroy was a purist.

Seventeenth-century military men with a habit of authority and experience of command were succeeded by eighteenth-century gentlemen and noblemen whose family connections and political influence in London were less relevant to problems in the colonies.

The first to alight was the eighteenth-century gentleman, who was Bevil; he helped his mother and Gwennan out, and then came Sir Endelion.

The eponymous hero of his Sir Charles Grandison (1753) is an ideal eighteenth-century gentleman.

In more recent times, Edward Gibbon is presented as a typical "eighteenth-century English gentleman ... in the upper strata of ... society."

When eighteenth-century gentlemen complained that the landed classes were being taxed to the gain of others, it was not the poorer classes they had in mind.

I tied back my hair in a black ribbon like any proper eighteenth-century gentleman and went in search of the master of the house.