So discreet and attentive to appearance in all her actions was this admirable princess.
It is not to be wondered at that this most lucrative festival should, ere the next century was half expired, appear to a discreet pontiff to be too long postponed.
But there was so perfect a silence as to the bishop that it was manifest that every one knew about him but was too discreet to tell.
Eleutheria,' a section at the beginning of the book, includes a number of discreet sacrifices on the altar of Milton.
To save the commonwealth and retain its provinces we must have a Caesar competent, diligent, discreet and brave; and not one of these epithets can be properly applied to the autocrat now in power.
After a discreetinterval he had travelled to Rome.
Her hostess then arranged so that a discreet selection of the officials then resident at Ballarat should arrive in the evening.
With an official history and a discreet independent version, no one will ever understand what bungling there has been, and what culpability.
A full hour must have passed before a very faint noise was heard, and then I caught a discreet scratching.
The French Minister was irate and raised his fat hands above his fat person, took a discreet look around him, and then hinted that it was this Legation, the British Legation, which stopped the marines from coming.
The scrawl was taken to her by a discreet official, and this time she received the letter, pressed it to her heart, and then slipped it into the bodice of her gown.
There was a knock at the door: the discreet man-servant brought a card, with the silence and confidential manner of one who announces a secret emissary--say a hired assassin.
She threw the hatchet on the carpet and walked away, the discreet man-servant opening the door for her with unchanged countenance, as if the deplorable incident had not happened at all.
The discreet man-servant outside blushed with shame that such a thing should happen under his roof.
Another knock, and again the discreet man-servant came in on tiptoe.
Outside, the discreet man-servant waited in silence and expectation.
And that is why I send this message by a saintly, most intelligent and discreet capuchin.
In confirmation of this growing spirit of self-examination with a view to national reform, we would also refer to the discreet and able memoir of Don Luis G.
Yet there are occasions upon which the houses and hearts of this very class are cordially opened to intelligent and discreet foreigners, and it is then that an opportunity is afforded of seeing the best phases of Mexican character.
But Madame Babette was afraid of her nephew, and thought it more discreet to wait for such crumbs of intelligence as he might think fit to throw to her.
In another few minutes she was galloping across the prairie, and when she rejoined her aunt and Barrington, endeavoured to draw out the latter's opinion respecting Courthorne's venture by a few discreet questions.
She was ardent, sincere, naturally diplomatic,--discreet is a better word.
It was attributed to one of the most discreet officials of the State Department.
The people at the Vatican, if you can get them to talk, are more valuable to an inquiring mind than any other class of men; but they are so wretchedly discreet just when their indiscretions might be most useful.
The present Queen of Denmark, the most discreet of princesses, never forgot that she was a Danish princess and would be in time a Danish queen.
But, ardently as she might return his love, loyal and discreet as her conduct might be, there were other grave perils menacing the tie which united the Emperor to Barbara.
He did not hinder the young man in his scientific researches; he used to sit down somewhere in a corner of the room and look on attentively, occasionally permitting himself a discreet question.
Russian, a woman of about fifty, neatly dressed, of a good-looking, sensible countenance and discreet speech.
The woods were full just then of discreet Patriots, and several of them held a breathless council of war.
She was relating something in a lively and jovial tone, for the editor would every now and then burst out in a discreet laugh, while Kotlicki would contort into a smile, his long equine face, and gather about him his coat-tails.
The actors stood in the passages and certain pairs were crouched in the darkness; whispers and discreet laughs sounded on all sides.
