She soon was back in the thick of things, and Arnold had received a tidy sum "sufficient for every demand in genteel life."

"All my young, pretty, innocent, and genteel life I have longed for the like of you!"

As a result, "The pretty, genteel life that Benson had depicted was criticized.

On the quiet avenues off the main street, you can taste something of the genteel life in some delightful little boarding houses that supplement the usual hotels.

At home in New York, he now lives a fairly genteel life.

LANDON RAY used to lead a fairly genteel life, selling flowers at farmers' markets in California and taking home $2,000 a month.

Growing restive with the genteel life in the country, Brenda slips into an affair with a London parasite, the somewhat younger John Beaver (Rupert Graves).

Susan Ertz (1894 - 11 April 1985) was a British fiction writer and novelist, known for her "sentimental tales of genteel life in the country."

In the 1920's and 30's, the bungalows and mansions of the city's leafy residential neighborhoods housed thousands of expatriates leading a genteel life far from home.

He spent last year renting and thinking about his friends and the genteel life he had given up in Norman, Okla.