She rose, pushed away her chair with a backward kick to give room for her ample hoops, and curtseying low to the company marched out of the room without so much as a glance at her rival who was on the verge of hysterics.
Lavinia between smiles and tears hurried off after curtseying to the gentlemen under the cedar tree and on her way across the lawn was met by the man-servant who took her to the housekeeper's room.
Madame flew to open the door, and stood smiling and curtseying as Mr. Topsparkle descended from his chair, treading delicately, like the ladies of ancient Jerusalem.
He turned from the curtseying truckling throng with a bitter sigh and a bitterer sneer, thinking how fine a triumvirate might have been formed in the year Fourteen, if he and Oxford and Marlborough had combined their forces.
Ranny's tension relaxed when Winny flung herself from side to side again and over, and lighted on her feet in the little curtseying posture, perfunctory and pathetic.
This is a divine day--cool winds and curtseying grasses.
She too, perhaps, had felt the youth in him, and had not felt herself capable of curtseying ceremoniously as she had been taught.
She had that moment stepped out of the shadow of the great fireplace, which had hitherto hidden her, and stood before me curtseying prettily, with the same look on her face and in her eyes which madame's wore.
The King of France is seen only when he chooses,' she replied, curtseying to the ground.
The white-sailed vessel on which their eyes were fixed, came curtseying over the waves through a perfect arch of splendid colour, like a fairy or phantom ship evoked from a poet's dream.
Each of the three bent her knee to receive her father's blessing and kiss, then curtseying at the door, departed, Betty lingering behind her two juniors to see her father taste his soup and to make sure that he relished it.
Emmeline now found her emotion very painful; she therefore rose to go, and curtseying to Lord Montreville, tried to wish him good night.
Keen little Sally would not have gone to the parson; she was too proud to beg a single penny's worth, but she had found a new way of getting around Mistress Cory Ann since she had seen all that curtseying to the parson.
One day Mistress Brace saw Parson Kendall again coming up her steps, and, curtseying as before, she bade him enter.
She hurried forward with a little, impulsive movement and, curtseying deeply to Gounod, seized one of his hands in both of hers and raised it to her lips.
And they did not feel any happier when the next day, as Mary was feeding the chickens, Nanny came up to her, curtseying and civil.
Even the household were sorry for her going, and the servants came nodding and curtseying round the carriage door.
It's a poor place for a great gentleman like your worship,' said the old woman, curtseyingand chattering.
She came curtseying forth, with many expressions of simple joy at seeing her young master.
There was no pleasing them with anything you sent in, nothing was good enough, and they expected you to stand curtseying and curtseying for their custom, and to wait for your money till all the profit was gone.
The Moll who came out, smiling and flattered, to the Inn door and stood there curtseying very low to her Ladyship, was a different being from the Rough Moll of every day.
Mrs. Wibberley-Stimpson made a curtsey that might have been lower if she had had any practice--but all the curtseying previously had been done to herself.
There they found the ladies and gentlemen-in-waiting drawn up in curtseying and bowing ranks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curtseying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
