gentleperson

So it feels like you're an olde world gentleperson quietly perusing the paper whilst waiting for your locamotive.

Right before the Grateful Dead played, there was a "gentleperson" from India who offered blessings from the stage.

The "gentleman C" student may have become a gentleperson B-, but he or she still receives the treasured diploma and cares for little else.

He writes in English, but his poems have the wit and vigor of the best of the bilingual works, and added to these qualities the dignity of an educated gentleperson from Puerto Rico.

To play well, it seemed, was the mark of a true gentleperson; the music of the cwrdth and the double-dulcimer blended into a counterpoint like lace, from which themes would emerge like half-familiar faces glimpsed in a crowd.

Richard Brody, at The Front Row, has not been blown over by the backlash; in his reply to yesterday's Close Read, he wishes that the Swiss authorities had, "like an Old World gentleperson," done something to tip off Polanski and spare him arrest.