Their demeanour has been patently and strongly feline.
My movements were quick, and I have always been told that my gestures were never awkward, my demeanour was never unfinished, as is the case so often with lads at school.
There are men whose wholedemeanour suggests the monkey.
That curious, abrupt change in Margot's demeanour from avoidance to invitation marked the subtle, inward development of feeling, the silent passage from sensation only towards action.
Under their charge I have perceived a marked improvement in the demeanour of the patients--in fact, the discipline of the wards is completely changed.
Miss Jones, and her nurses and probationers, must have had much difficulty at first--indeed their work is still very trying; but the improved demeanourof the men must be highly gratifying and encouraging to them.
Yet it needed but a glance at her refined and modest demeanour to dispel that idea as absurd.
The next step is the messengers' demeanour to the rejecters of their message.
And how the remembrance of it helps to explain His demeanour to the Syrophcenician woman, so unlike His usual tone!
And in nothing is the contrast more marked than in the demeanour of these enfeebled and unbelieving Apostles, as contrasted with the rapture of devotion of the other three, and with the lowly submission and faith of Moses and Elias.
The silence which Mark tells of can only refer to their demeanour as they 'fled.
I know not if they this with pleasure view, Though him they welcome with demeanour bland: For the intercepted victory might pain Perchance inflict upon the envying twain.
During the three days, the demeanour of the famous scientist was reported on with great admiration in all quarters.
His outward face and demeanour showed nothing of the storm and riot within.
Though she never liked me, nor could I say there was many things in her demeanour that pleased me; yet she was a free-handed woman to the needful, and when she died she was more missed than it was thought she could have been.
See, Leonard, what good training will do for an Esquire; Eustace has already caught that air and courteous demeanour that cannot be learnt here among us poor Knights of Somerset.
This chief of Grey's opponents was as unlike him in demeanour and disposition as one man can well be to another.
Gasca seems indeed, according to the estimate of all writers of history, to have been a model of character--courteous in demeanour but firm in his course, as beseemed a man who was strong in his rectitude of purpose.
While these wild revels were kept up both before and after the execution the demeanour of the doomed partook too often of the general recklessness.
The demeanour of the prisoners in the court was so bold, that it drew down on them the anger of the recorder, who called Penn troublesome, saucy, and so forth.
For an account of the prisoner's demeanour after sentence and execution the reader is referred to the chapter on Executions in vol.
The culprit's prayers were interrupted, his demeanour if resigned was sneered at, and only applauded when he went with brazen effrontery to his death.
It was greatly increased by the known displeasure of the Government at the demeanour of some of the condemned at Tyburn.
Other friends kept him informed of approaching events, and bespoke a seat for him, or gave full details of the demeanour of those whose sufferings he had not been privileged to see.
Encouraged by Lady Hamilton's approval, Patty ceased to think about her demeanour and proceeded to enjoy the conversation of those about her.
Nothing but the ladies' clothes, and the lamb-like demeanour of the M.
I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love.
Elizabeth seemed happy; my tranquil demeanour contributed greatly to calm her mind.
His demeanour was calm and dignified, and he had a very soldierly bearing.
His whole demeanour in the duel, according to the witness whom you are most to believe, Colonel Stanwix, was that of perfect honour and perfect humanity.
An unquiet woman is the misery of man, whose demeanour is not to be described but in extremities.
He is in nature kind, in demeanour courteous, in allegiance loyal, and in religion zealous; in service faithful, and in reward bountiful.
University jests are his universal discourse, and his news the demeanour of the proctors.
After a cathedral and a palace and a long drive, this was bound to have its effect, and I very soon saw resentment in the demeanour of both my parents.
His demeanour showed that he resented the Malts, who were, nevertheless, innocent respectable people.
In all your demeanour there was simplicity and frankness.
She fell into alarming agonies when she discovered the full import of that coldness and dejection which mydemeanour betrayed.
Who was Queen Charlotte, that the eyes of the public should be blinded, or their tongues mute, upon this apathy and unfeeling demeanour to the king, her husband, who had raised her from comparative poverty to affluence and greatness?
His demeanour grew softer, tenderer, more solicitous towards his fair companion; his conversation was all of love.
St. Real immediately halted his men, and waited calmly for the approach of the strangers, who advanced at full speed almost till the parties met, without choosing to notice the peaceable demeanour of the young lord and his attendants.
Deeper offences succeeded; and it became me, though love loses hope but slowly, to assume a demeanour towards you, which might at once tend to awaken you, and do justice to myself.
But all that day throughout the city I found the demeanour of the people much less offensive than a Chinaman in the lower quarters of London would.
And true Oriental haughty indifference marked the demeanour of these cheapjacks when we searched among their curious wares for souvenirs of Pekin.
Sweete mistresse where as I loue you nothing at all, Regarding your substance and richesse chiefe of all, For your personage, beautie, demeanour and wit, I commende me vnto you neuer a whit.
Brief as was that interview of mine, I could not help noticing how perfectly calm and self-possessed he was, for his demeanour greatly contrasted with the anxious or excited bearing of his subordinates.
None of our column had a particularly threatening mien; the generaldemeanour was rather suggestive of joyful expectancy.
He saw by the fearful look, the inexorable demeanour of his father, that he had no pity to expect from him.
Saint-Remy yielded to the influence of the cavalier and cordial demeanour of this lady, whom he had seen and loved when a child, and he almost forgot that he was talking to the mistress of his son.
The laws regulating their demeanour in sitting, rising, and entering when the others are assembled, are those which have been practised by all the saints since Buddha was in the world down to the present day.
The rules of demeanour and the scholastic arrangements(6) in them are worthy of observation.
When they enter the refectory, their demeanour is marked by a reverent gravity, and they take their seats in regular order, all maintaining a perfect silence.
His grandson was converted to Buddhism by the bold and patient demeanour of an Arhat whom he had ordered to be buried alive, and became a most zealous supporter of the new faith.
His demeanourwas exceedingly capricious, and even grotesque.
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