There was more than one demure feminine hypocrite to instruct her in the art of playing such dangerous comedies.
John Girdlestone was fairly staggered by this blaze of feminine anger in his demure and obedient ward.
Her cheeks were dimpled, and her lips were curved into a faint smile as she sat with a demure face and watched Ashby.
There was need of them, for Elsie, usually in a state of wild effervescence upon such occasions, was now demure and comparatively silent.
Her ancestors had fought the Indians, and had bequeathed to the demure little maiden much of their own indomitable spirit.
She was a neat, demure little figure in her cheap black dress, her small toque, and her black cotton gloves, with the false badge of matrimony underneath.
I looked at her, and saw that with her brown hair brushed severely from her forehead, her small close-fitting hat and slightly shabby black jacket she was quite a demure little figure.
I could not help smiling at her demure little figure in the cheap black dress.
Who is the boy comes stealing here, With looks demure and mild?
When putting in the cattle at night we have to be on the watch lest our demure little cow should happen to get another in a corner and start prodding her.
She looks so demure that I suspect her of being a flirt.
Poppy instantly tripped forward, and in quite a demure manner took the girls up some broad stairs, and into a long, rather low-ceilinged room on the first floor.
She gave her father a demure and interrogative glance.
And Cherry treated him, in return, as if she had been his demureand mischievous and affectionate daughter.
She crossed her hands and composed her most demure air; and, for the sake of the audience which it pleased her to imagine; and when Harold was not looking she allowed her malicious eyes to say what she was really thinking.
But she will not look any more demure than she did that morning.
When Kitty looks particularly demure and utters sentiments of that kind, as if she were translating one of Dr.
I hope you will not deprive me of the company of my child during the little time we can remain together,” I said with a demure countenance.
Betty, to whom the whole amazing sentence was distinctly audible, lifteddemure eyes to his face.
How dainty she looked in her trim cotton gown, with its demure cuffs and collar of white, and how deftly her hands moved among the simple fittings of the table!
It seemed such an unnatural and inconsistent sound when the demure old woman-servant appeared in the doorway and announced supper.
I envy you," said my lady, as demure as you please.
The quiet, sedate city of Penn had lost its air of demure respectability, and I felt like one in a strange place.
She gave him a kiss with the same demure simplicity.
If he offers me another apple I must take it,' she answered in a sweet demure little voice.
Were these the lads who night after night had stood before her with faces sleeked and smugged with arrant hypocrisy, or had looked up at her after some bout of intolerable mischief, as demure as kittens after spilling a saucer of milk?
Celie sat all the while demure as a kitten and smoothed her gloves.
Nevertheless, there was not much of importance to her schemes which was not familiar to the wise little head set upon the plumply demure shoulders of Janet of Inverness.
Then I think that you ought to be concerned about Stuyvesant," said Phonny, "for he is as sage and demure as any man I ever saw.
If a boy of twelve were to be as sage and demure as a man, always sitting still, and reading and studying, we should be afraid, either that he was already sick, or that he would make himself sick.
On the contrary," replied I, looking at the demureface of the negro; "I suspect it was Moonshine.
He chose one of his tenant's daughters, who was demureto an excess.
Presently Ward and thedemure Amy Hawkes found her; the car was waiting.
Richard was looking for the demure blue gown and the bright head as they joined the young group downstairs.
We came to inquire for your mother, dear Meta," said Rose, in a demure tone.
Rose's words were quite severe, and Hattie planted herself on the edge of a chair, folded her plump hands, managed to get a demure look into her laughing eyes and dimpled mouth, and sat motionless for about half a minute.
