gently born

"He certainly cannot be allowed to marry any gently born woman.

She claims to be, but she does not sound or look like a woman gently born.

"You no more believe she's gently born than I do, eh, brother?"

"The ones who come are well spoken and gently born, sweet queen.

One reason you were chosen is the fact that you are gently born, though not acknowledged.

"Whether or not I'm gently born may be in question," Judith conceded.

Then my father is a gently born and well-educated man, though circumstances have caused him to spend his life in these wild places.

The other novices, gently born and not, were desperately doing the same in other parts of the garden.

So enough of this brave and honest man, gently born also, and instructed in his fashion.

"I do not disbelieve she is gently born."

In many ways, they were fortunate that there were so few gently born among them, Sir George had often thought.

Did you know that she was gently born and that her mother was the daughter of a baronet?

"These are women, unarmed, and gently born."

I want an honest woman, one gently born and educated, but not necessarily of great family-a solid country gentlewoman, that's what's needed.

"The fact that he isn't a true English gentleman made it easier to think him capable of murdering his gently born wife," Pierce added.

Ladies-and especially gently born ones who were still little more than children-should be sheltered from the brutal realities of the difficult problems and solutions which faced rulers.

What if there remains the possibility she's as gently born as she claims to be, but 'tisn't your grandsire's friend to whom she is related?

"I care not if your name is Lambini or Lamb, if you hail from York or New York, if you're gently born or common.

Their combined impressions produced no other conclusion about the younger of the two men than the probability that he was, indeed, a soldier like themselves- perhaps gently born, but a fighting man, for sure.

Here two men, a ship's officer and a gently born younger son sent from England to make his way in the world, are involved in certain events which are, as it were, by-products of civil war.

It was, perhaps, regrettable that such a policy allowed the occasional lowborn embarrassment entry, but it also meant that only the most qualified warriors from the ranks of the gently born were admitted, as well.

"I shall escort you home for the purpose of reuniting you with your kin and, when we confirm your assertion that you are-" he almost said, "a gently born lady," but caught himself. "

His father might have grown into someone Julien respected now, but thirty years ago he had been the kind of man who didn't even remember the name of a gently born girl he had seduced and abandoned.

And to resent the social conventions that created their situation, was called "class envy"; and gently born preachers reproached us for the mildest resentment against an injustice no living man would now either endure or consent to profit by.

Queen Catherine, upon being denied permission by her son's regents to wed John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, allegedly said upon leaving court, "I shall marry a man so basely, yet gently born, that my lord regents may not object."