Lucy's treatment of me was every moment before me, contrasted with her gay and courteous demeanor to all save myself, and I longed for the moment to get away.
He was therefore prepared to observe the rigid demeanor of those between whom ceremony only forces recognition.
It might almost have been the truth from that old little swarthy face and sedate demeanor that hardly noticed them.
She had seen his very demeanor change before her eyes.
Callias had observed a certain change in the demeanor of the people, but was too much engrossed in his own affairs to think much about it.
Monsieur de Courtois' angry demeanor suddenly changed to that of a sufferer almost as seriously injured as Steingall made out.
The question came from the Earl of Valletort, whose angry bewilderment had suddenly given place to a gravity of demeanor that was significant of the serious complications involved in the clerk's statement.
The emperor was conversing gayly with two Polish noblemen, whose cheerful demeanor bore evidence to the transitory nature of their national grief, when he observed this old man.
Gradually her face resumed its usual expression, and her demeanor became, as it was wont to be, dignified and graceful.
The cheerful and unconcerned demeanor of her son seemed to reassure the empress, who turned to her cards, and tried to become interested in the game.
He said this with the demeanorof a merchant whose mind is upon his business, and who has no idea that it can concern any other person.
Louis, who had begun to regard his wife with passionate admiration, became cold and sarcastic in his demeanor toward her.
The princess was on horseback; but she rode awkwardly, and her demeanor was shy and ungraceful.
Her whole being seemed filled with a feverish excitement which contrasted singularly with the unaltered demeanor of her prime minister, who, cold and tranquil as ever, advanced to meet his sovereign, and bowed with his usual phlegm.
Certainly," said the emperor, ready to burst with laughter, as he surveyed the solemn demeanor of the artiste.
His eyes beamed as of erst, and his whole demeanor was that of a sovereign who had learned, above all things, to control himself.
His hat showed that he was in mourning; and a general sadness of demeanor which he manifested was well in keeping with that sombre emblem.
Here, at Chetwynde, he addressed her as the steward of the estates should have done; and even when discussing the most delicate matters his tone and demeanor corresponded with his office.
She was very beautiful, and her high breeding was evident in her manner; but there was about her such frigidity and such loftiness of demeanor that it repelled those who would have been willing to give her their love.
If people are even then found at their devotions, as is apt to be the case in Roman Catholic churches especially, the demeanor of the visitor should be respectful and subdued and his voice low, so that he may not disturb them.
Through it all she was never able to forget the fact that she had been a queen, and many examples might be given of her haughty demeanor in the presence of those who were unwilling to do her bidding.
He went away with a rush, but his demeanor showed that he was not running away from anything or anybody.
The girl did not reply; she was looking down upon the keys of her typewriter, and her demeanor suggested that her heart was on the floor, too.
He turned to the bashful chap, who had resumed his former demeanor of deprecation.
Come with me where we can talk privately," she urged; her demeanor told Latisan that she was not able to back the defiant stand he had taken with Crowley a moment before.
She assumed the demeanor of a girl who was resentfully able to take care of herself, playing a part for the benefit of the drive master.
She plainly shared Latisan's amazement, but there was in her demeanorsomething more than the frank astonishment which was actuating him.
Her demeanor was calm as ever, and the able barrister who defended her did not scruple to suggest that it would create a better effect with the jury if she adopted a less unemotional attitude.
The elders attributed her excited demeanor to the accident.
Was Elsie aping this demure demeanor because her father was present?
Their demeanor was quiet, for the London merchants deemed a grave demeanor to belong to their calling and the younger men and apprentices restrained their spirits in the presence of their superiors.
It was already crowded with the people, whose silent and quiet demeanor seemed to bode no good.
You are growing too masterful altogether, and have none of the quiet demeanor and peaceful air which becomes an honest citizen.
Splendid preparations had been made for his reception, and the man who took the lead in the festive arrangements with a zeal that was doubly effective from his composeddemeanor was no less a person than the Regent Ani.
She bowed before him with a demeanor that was more like the singer Beki than the sorceress Hekt, and begged him to take the only seat she possessed.
Rameses took his seat on his throne with great dignity, and the sternest gravity marked his demeanorwhile he received the homage of the conquered and fettered kings.
He is like the Sun-god, and his demeanor is that of a prince.
I cannot say that Sylvia's demeanor cooled my affection, but I can say that it cooled my desire for instantaneous expression of it.
Her demeanor had been pleasant enough when we had seen her before, but now she greeted us as cordially as if we had been old friends.
Her abilities appeared so excellent, and her demeanor was so agreeable to me, that I engaged her.
One might fancy she felt no emotion, her whole demeanorwas so apathetic; but of a sudden she leaned over and took up one of the thick shining curls; half smiling, she began to wrap it about her finger.
The church was partly filled with sad-eyed, patient-faced women, whose quiet demeanor was more heartrending than tears would have been.
She reflected that this Friend must come from one of the country districts where observances as to demeanor and dress were much stricter than in the cities.
From their dress and demeanor he thought they might be Quakers, and, as it was unlawful to harbor persons of that sect, he asked them to go on their way, since he feared to give offense in entertaining them.
There are still a few old men, I believe, at Nashville who remember General Jackson's demeanor on the race ground, and they confirm the record of Mr. Flower.
Her demeanor was simply that which would have been natural and appropriate in receiving, beneath her own roof, one who was almost a stranger.
His first impulse caused him to turn to his father in an excess of rage; but the broken, contrite, abject demeanor of the latter silenced the angry reproaches that were bursting from his son's lips.
They are confined every day but Sunday, and then Tappan is obliged to observe the demeanor of a church-goer to prevent open war with his father.
She vaguely recognized that his demeanor was altered.
This assimilation of the priestly class to the class of body servants, in demeanor and apparel, is due to the similarity of the two classes as regards economic function.
It would on this account be misleading to attempt an analysis of devout demeanor by referring all evidences of the presence of a pecuniary standard of reputability back directly and baldly to the underlying norm of pecuniary emulation.
Priestly demeanor at its best is aloof, leisurely, perfunctory, and uncontaminated with suggestions of sensuous pleasure.
At first, especially while the fisherman was in Wallencamp, her demeanor towards me had been marked by a decided touch of coldness and mistrust.
Simply by getting into it, my dear," I answered, with that unyielding sweetness of demeanor for which I fancied I had ever been distinguished in the family circle.
The man who rode beside Karl Steinmetz with gloomy eyes and a vague suggestion of flight in his whole demeanor was, like reader and writer, exactly what he seemed.
Her whole demeanor was admirable in its well-bred repose.
Now absence was in many ways a good thing for his reputation, since his overbearing private demeanor had been kept out of sight, and his impieties partially forgotten.
To many, his demeanor would appear to betray an insolence not without analogy to Alkibiadês or Kritias, with whom his accuser had compared him.
Sidenote: A strange demeanor of the duke of Yorke.
Onelie this I ad, that in respect of his noble indowments, and his demeanor full of decencie, which he daily vsed, it seemeth he might well haue giuen this pretty poesie, Virtute duce non sanguine nitor.
