Example Sentences

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For long Helena Tankerville figured to Joan as an impeccable model of tact, distinction, taste, and gentlewomanliness.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

She had a quantity of light chestnut hair, a good figure, a dazzling complexion, and a certain languid grace which passed easily for gentlewomanliness.

From Tales of the Argonauts by Harte, Bret