You flatter me much, Lady Vyner; but any skill I may possess in these respects is rather applicable to people in our own rank of life, where conventionalities have a great share; now in hiding, now in disclosing traits of character.
Conventionalities are, however, the tyrants of such men as himself, and the bare idea of anything unseemly in politeness was unendurable.
The ancient equipment of congenital aptitudes and propensities stands over substantially unchanged, though overlaid with barbarian traditions and conventionalities and readjusted by habituation to the exigencies of civilised life.
It seemed to her that what people called the conventionalities were a device of the far-seeing eye of the Most High to regulate the relations of His children.
But give me people who don't bother about such tiresome conventionalities as marriage.
I built this house in order to get further away from the conventionalities of life, and to get a first hand acquaintance with Nature.
A few weeks in summer they are in the habit of unfolding their tents and going away to the mountains where they can for a short while rid themselves of conventionalities and try out nature.
Side by side with conventionalities and duties spring up deceit and falsehood.
He estimates external things only by their relation to him; but this estimate is exact and positive, and in it fancies and conventionalities have no share.
As in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, the police, who cannot suppress these resorts, strive to control them so far that they shall not outrage openly the conventionalities of society.
The conventionalities were appeased; the silent, watchful servants who waited on them were given no food for comment.
Her feminine thought for conventionalitiesappealed to him.
Major; and finally, with a sudden recollection of the conventionalities of life, turned and apologised to Mr Dombey.
Because you can't affront the world, because you are bound by its conventionalities and respectabilities, as I am not.
More than this, of that which they loved and rendered much is rendered conventionally; by noble conventionalities indeed, but such nevertheless as would be inexcusable if the landscape became the principal subject instead of an accompaniment.
Indeed, I believe there is nearly as much occasion, at the present day, for advocacy of Michael Angelo against the pettiness of the moderns, as there is for support of Turner against the conventionalities of the ancients.
It has begun and ended in exhibiting the dexterities of individuals, and conventionalities of systems.
For this reason many considerate followers of conventionalities do not use the black-edged stationery, but content themselves with plain white paper marked with the address or monogram in black lettering.
There were so many laws of her little world of conventionalities that she had transgressed, and so many qualms of a belated conscience about whether she ought to have done it at all.
But her life had been so hedged about by conventionalities that it seemed an impossible thing to her to open her lips on the subject to any living being--unless it might be to John Cameron.
You would follow no teaching implicitly, but, when you saw fit, would trample on conventionalities and venerable stage-traditions.
An illiterate clown he is, who, visiting New York, contrives by vice of impudence, to interfere very seriously with certain conventionalities of the metropolis.
Within himself he thought sadly that the conventionalities of the world were out of place now, when both were hovering on the border of the Unknown Land.
She was so lovely and so unique, in her total ignorance of the world, that she had a subtle charm for the man inured to the conventionalities of society.
Still, there is ground for the sportsman's claim that under the existing conventionalities his need of recreation and of contact with nature can best be satisfied by the course which he takes.
It needs no argument to show that the derangement of the general structure of conventionalities in any of these cases would be very considerable.
Yet he professed to hate Paris with its conventionalities and fashions, and sought a quiet retreat where he could more leisurely pursue his studies and enjoy Nature, which he really loved.
It is also a bold and grotesque but scorching sarcasm of the conventionalities and hypocrisies of society, and a savage thrust at those quackeries which seem to reign in this world in spite of their falsity and shallowness.
This new life opening before him, with all its social disadvantages, and many privations, would give his wife such an opportunity for recovery as the conventionalities of society at home could not furnish.
The customs and conventionalities of English life had no force here, and she was free to act as she pleased.
It was owing to a certain mutual scorn of conventionalities that Helen and her husband at length decided to separate.
Her ease of manner showed familiarity with the conventionalities of life, yet in some vague way she seemed removed from the people by whom she was to-day surrounded.
The fact is, that music which is tied down to the conventionalities and moods of its time and place can never appeal but to the particular time and mood which gave it birth.
The conventionalities here do not absolutely demand such an arrangement, though it would be appreciated; nor can one obtain any artificial heat in his apartment, however much it may be required.
Thou hadst better wed me, Maude," said Bertram coaxingly, dropping his voice and his conventionalities together.
When a woman scorns conventionalities as I do, all is over.
Born with the most fanatical love of liberty, he looked upon all the conventionalities of the world as tyranny, and defied all restraints of authority from his earliest youth.
His whole manner and speech were imbued with a high-bred courtesy, though he sometimes loved to run counter to the ordinaryconventionalities of life.
He has always had a great contempt for theconventionalities of dress, and many laughable anecdotes have been told concerning his appearance at the Isle of Wight.
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