Esmond had his own opinion about the countrified Walcote widow, who had a quiet grace, and serene kindness, that had always seemed to him the perfection of good breeding, though he did not try to argue this point with his aunt.
That countrified Walcote widow could never have taught him.
In the first place, you never feel countrified and unpopular in London, as you do in New York.
Ten miles of even a bad road is not an impassible barrier to an enthusiastic bicyclist; yet the place was as rustic and countrified as if it had been, not ten, but ten hundred miles from an electric light.
Bannock Bars was too near town for her to realize how countrified it was, how the coming of a single stranger could stir the placid current of its existence.
She was taller and had a more upright bearing of head and neck, with more promise of beauty than her companion, who was much more countrified and would not have been taken for the child of higher station.
He carried his head on one side, which gave a singularity to his figure, and he had generally a countrified appearance; but he took his place among his mates without much observation.
Ermolai crept back as far as the lodge, and then came quite normally up the path, letting the gravel crunch under his countrified footsteps.
Hugo cottage, and brings back the aspect of the street as they saw it, countrified with just such cottages.
Boulevard Beaumarchais, which occupies the site of her garden, we come out on that broad thoroughfare, passing on our right the buildings covering the gardens that once countrified this east side of Rue des Tournelles.
Elizabeth felt very meek and hopelessly countrified as she laid off her wraps in Miss Tripp's rather stuffy but ornate little apartment.
She felt somehow very ignorant and countrified and totally unfit for her high destiny as a member of Boston's select circles.
Sam was rather surprised at his manner, and also at the fact of his countrified companion being apparently on intimate terms with a person so different in appearance.
Sam privately thought him too countrified in appearance for the position he desired, but did not say so.
Let me give a few instances of "pagan" or countrified use.
The humour which underlies the roughness of countrified speech is often not only genuine but subtle.
Oxford is countrified enough,' she said, indifferently, moving down the broad grass-path which divided the garden into two equal portions.
Give me leave to enjoy everything countrified more than usual,' he said.
He at this time was a shrewd but countrified youth of twenty or thereabouts.
Then resentment awoke, and with it a soaring ambition to reconstruct the social fabric of the countrifiedtown upon a model of her own devising.
By this time Mr. Sonneschein's hesitant and countrified customer had undergone a complete metamorphosis.
I am countrified too," said Amethyst, "and I think they are quite right.
My darling, it is impossible to calculate on the fads of countrified and bornes people, like the Leighs.
It is indeed worth a pilgrimage thither to see this true gem of architecture in a wholly undefiledcountrified setting.
Jack and I are toocountrified and homely, but it's very kind of you to ask us," and the tears stood in the eyes of the sensitive woman as she spoke.
For ten years they continued to carry on their school most successfully, till bricks and mortar had completely destroyed the countrified character of the place, and obliged them at last to seek a home elsewhere.
Esmond had his own opinion about the countrified Walcote widow, who had a quiet grace and serene kindness, that had always seemed to him the perfection of good breeding, though he did not try to argue this point with his aunt.
At the end of their brisk colloquy, which he followed but in part, the sennerin, with a gesture of countrified courtesy, turned to the door with a pretty smile and waved Florian into her châlet.
It was cheerful though homely, and clean in a certain rough countrified way; and it faced due south, toward the sun and the snow-fields.
