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Definition of Gentles
1. gentle [v] - See also: gentle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentles
Literary usage of Gentles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"... added to it, to keep it from warning off the hook ; in moulded in your hands
with water, and a little cotton winter gentles are the beft bait for'him. ..."
2. The Angler's Guide: Being a New, Plain, and Complete Practical Treatise on by Thomas Frederick Salter (1825)
"gentles and Worms. gentles, or maggots, may be bred from any animal substance,
either fish, flesh, or fowl, (those from fish are least worthy,) by exposing ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... And saw his saddle bare ; We sa%v the victor win the crest He wears with worthy
pride, And on the gibbet'tree, reversed, Room, room, ye gentles gay. ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland (1855)
"... and Bothwell, perceiving that no sort of demonstration was made either by
gentles or commons for the liberation of the Queen, brought her, ..."
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