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When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables."

From Time Magazine Archive

There were now many gentlemen-farmers who did not neglect either their work on the land or their own culture—M. and Madame Millet-Robinet might be cited as examples.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

There were also gentlemen-farmers, neatly, trimly, and fashionably dressed, in handsome surtouts and trousers, strapped under their boots.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

He belonged to the class known as gentlemen-farmers, and of that class he was one of the most respected.

From Speeches from the Dock, Part I by Various

The excellent grammar-schools in Inverness, Fortrose, and Dunkeld sent out men well-informed, excellent classical scholars, and these from among that order which in England is the most illiterate—the gentlemen-farmers.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.