Your carpenter or plumber does not feel hurt that you do not ask him to dine with you, nor your milliner and mantua-maker that you do not exchange ceremonious calls and invite them to your parties.
At their annual trading fairs, and on other occasions, they are fond of visiting and entertaining friends with ceremonious interchange of presents, a suitable return being expected for each gift.
His hearer liked it far better than the ceremonious you, which he had taken up since Lawrence became a man.
The old playmates had become excessively ceremonious to each other.
Mrs. Dillon was not your mere aristocrat, who keeps exclusive her ceremonious march through life.
The feast was preceded by theceremonious drinking of kava and speeches in Samoan.
The first ceremonious stiffness having worn off by this time, the meal was enlivened by much friendly gaiety.
But Carl came up in the evening to escort Edith home, and had then "the honor of making Mr. Rowan's acquaintance" in a remarkably cool and ceremonious fashion.
Each made a ceremonious salute, from the back of the neck, with an accompaniment of watching looks and glances which already felt each other in the semi-anticipation of a contest.
The master bowed with the ceremonious affectation he always showed in order to dissimulate his aversion towards those of the cloth.
He has been so extremely ceremonious and stately of late, I can't imagine what it is all about, unless you have desperately offended him.
Mrs. Somers made many ceremonious speeches: but Lady Littleton seemed so well inclined to accept Emilie's offered room, that she was obliged to yield.
He might likewise, without making himself absolutely invisible, have spared himself the fatigue of the ceremoniousreceptions where, motionless on a raised platform, he accepts the silent adoration of his courtiers prostrated at his feet.
Each guest, after a little ceremonious hesitation, helps herself with the only spoon in the dish, and which everybody uses.
He declared his willingness to accept the invitation to Marchmont Towers, and promised to answer John's ceremonious note the next day.
He was only a commonplace widower, after all, it seemed; ready to be consoled as soon as the ceremonious interval of decent grief was over.
She did not wait for any ceremonious introduction to George, but held out her hand to him, and smiled at him frankly.
The entrance from the street is through an iron gate, by a beautiful winding avenue, well planted, and the porter's lodge is by the side of this gate; a great bell to be rung in case of ceremonious visits.
And yet she knew of instances in which marriages had been broken off after betrothal quite as ceremonious as her own--had been broken off without scandal or special censure from the Church.
Nothing could be more ceremonious than the manner in which the two rivals greeted each other.
She remembered the dark, dim look of the London nursery, presided over by an austere and ceremonious nurse, who was terribly particular about clean hands and torn frocks.
Sometimes a cloth is spread, and then the al fresco repast assumes quite a ceremonious air.
Even when matters have crawled to this advanced stage the visits of the Don are merely ceremonious calls, paid strictly under the watchful eyes of the duena.
To-day I pay her a ceremonious visit at eleven o'clock.
I had learned from her the day before that the superior hardware merchant had recently made her a ceremonious offer of marriage.
What did the ceremonious steuerrath and the purse-proud commerzienrath want with me, a prisoner?
Offering his hand, with a mixture of kindness and ceremonious grace that I had never before seen in my Quaker father, he placed her in his own arm-chair.
Paula silently bowed her thanks, and theceremonious call was at an end.
With another ceremonious salute, he opened the door leading to the female ward and disappeared.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceremonious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
