Is it not meet that I demean me according to your will?
And touching this, she would not fail to make known by this one what she would that I should do, provided he failed not to warn me to demean me so modestly towards her as not to do aught to provoke her displeasure or reproach.
What reason have you, fair Sir, to demean you thus?
They wish to know of me how they are to demean themselves toward the members of the guild.
Thy father demean himself to buy with his honorably-earned gold a son-in-law from amongst the poor nobles, who will be ever thinking of the honor done us in accepting thee and thy sixty thousand dollars!
O who were able now condignly to relate how Pantagruel did demean himself against the three hundred giants!
If therefore thou wilt demean thyself on this occasion with a right judgment, according to the gifts that are in thee, we desire thou wilt place James Nayler[213] at the upper end of thy table.
No, Major Pendennis would on no account have his nephew appear like an apothecary; the august representative of the house of Pendennis must not so demean himself.
I cannot think a savant would so demean himself; he must have been of Russian extraction and perfectly serious.
Strange that Oscar Vincent, from one of the first families of Boston, shoulddemean himself by keeping company with a low printer boy!
I am sure my mother would be disgusted if I should demean myself so far as to give lessons to any vulgar apprentice.
I know that I need not tell thee to remember that though thou dost wear a man's habit thou art still in truth a maid, and to demean thyself in accordance therewith.
For his sake so demean thyself that all that he hath done will be condoned.
Do you think I would demean myself by lying--to a Yank?
You know; I shall not demean myself to repeat the words.
But Hortense had accepted her destiny, and was determined to demean herself as became her own and her mother's dignity.
At last his father asked him upon one occasion, "Why dost thou demean thyself so strangely toward Herr von Bouverot?
What was there in this woman that men should so demean themselves for her?
Hatchway listened to his injunctions with great attention, and promised to demean himself accordingly.
No, thank God, it is not thus my boy willdemean himself.
How he might demean himself should this fortune be adjudged to the Earl, as he thought would be the case when he first made the girl promise to be his wife, he knew well enough.
If I tell you that this dress which I have on is the only one in which I can fitly appear even in your chambers, perhaps you will think that I demean myself.
To think one of our folks should marry a brigamist," continued the irate lady, unconsciously punning, "and demean herself to take up with a Mixon!
I wouldn't demeanmyself by letting her know who it is.
You'd demean yourself, I dare say, when you might have the streets swept for you.
They could not demean themselves by performing anything so servile, but must get their land cultivated by others.
They could not demean themselves to this, but must have the power to compel the inhabitants and owners of this beautiful island to work for them.
