Citations:old-gentlemanish


 * 1) * 1882, Mary Russell Mitford, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford, Harper & Brothers, page 12:
 * My master enjoys everything in Italy with wonderful zest, and though he says he has undertaken too much for his time of life, and is very old-gentlemanish, he has done more work than ever he did before, since he got over a sense of depression arising from the extreme beauty of the scenes and his own inadequacy to represent them.