A chapter is included on trap shooting and the book closes with a forceful and common-sense presentation of the etiquette of the field.
They cared nothing for politics, they cared nothing for science, they were none of them book lovers, and it was against their sense of etiquette to speak of anything but the externals of religion.
He would name any number of heresies and heretics, but, except at grace, it was against his sense of etiquette to speak the name of Christ at table.
Under such circumstances middle class etiquette requires that the young man shall be well known to the family as a person of good habits and reputation.
The most stringent rule of etiquette at a card-party is to be punctual, that the tables may be filled up in good season.
When once the rules of etiquette are firmly fixed, they become instinctive and are obeyed unconsciously.
Card etiquette has been jocosely termed "going into society in a pasteboard way.
While the rules of etiquette are intended to be of general application, there are certain relaxations in middle class society not permissible in more fashionable circles.
Etiquette is not relaxed in the case of an engaged couple.
The etiquette of calling on an "at home" day does not differ from that of an ordinary call, save that some light refreshment is offered, as a rule.
There is no formal etiquette for any of these anniversaries.
The social code which we call etiquette is no senseless formula.
Conduct of Funerals-- So brief the span between our birth and death that the etiquette of burial may fittingly follow that of the christening ceremony.
Fashion prescribes and regulates styles; etiquette settles the appropriate garb for the occasion.
Under so exceptional circumstances as these occasioned by the present war extraordinary steps are certainly justified and breaches of etiquette of little significance.
The etiquette is very strict and no one, not presented at court, can appear at these hunts.
The strict etiquetteof the Faubourg St Germain may here be safely laid aside awhile; and the inspirations of country life, the happy the delightful inspirations of youth, may be once more resumed.
There was an informality of procedure about Jodhpur which, after the strained etiquette of other States, was very refreshing.
And the degrading thing was that the trial was reported by men who evidently understood all about the pistol, was tried before a jury who were versed in the etiquette of the hip-pocket, and was discussed on the streets by men equally initiate.
It made the men familiar with the etiquette of salutes jump.
When a ship reaches port where there are other ships of the navy or where there are foreign warships the niceties of calling and entertaining etiquette are observed.
To change the conversation is, as every one knows, a right possessed by princes which etiquetterequires all to respect.
It was usual for the king to take his breakfast at this hour, for the code of etiquette prescribed that the king should always be hungry at eight o'clock.
And while they were talking of it Mr. Yelverton himself appeared, contrary to etiquette and his own arrangements.
It was because I wasn't a colourless, conventional puppet with a book of etiquette in place of a soul that he was first drawn towards me.
I thought--correct etiquette for me to sit down here, do you think?
It was black, as etiquette then required, but a court dress, and the princess took pleasure in having it made as magnificent as possible.
In making up a bride's trousseau, it is etiquette for the mother of the bride to give the white laces, the happy bridegroom the black; and the prices where the parties are wealthy run up to an enormous amount.
We remember Mr. Disraeli actually refusing to accept as sufficient reason for the late war the "breach of etiquette at a German watering-place.
This was in the 32nd Division's sector; but veteran divisions do not stand on etiquette on such occasions.
He hedged himself about with the etiquette of royalty.
A mere exchange, for the sake of exchanging,--that is manifestly contrary to the etiquette of the game!
Indeed, second marriages are never looked upon with favor, except among people of the lower classes who generally disregard the etiquette and ideas which prevail among the nobles and the rich who imitate them.
It was not against Egyptian etiquette for women to attend banquets, and they are often represented as drinking freely, even to drunkenness, lying about with forms exposed, and vomiting from overindulgence.
A sort of chivalrous etiquette is observed, in virtue of which a female chorus is the first to form your escort from pillar to pillar.
But the etiquette in these things differs in the different provinces.
The submission of the Spaniards to the despotism of etiquette and custom in trifles, does not (otherwise than apparently) constitute a contradiction to this independence of character.
I had become well acquainted with Iranian etiquette during my travels in Southern Persia, and on such occasions I always played the Iranian, meeting compliments with phrases even more complimentary.
I once wished to excuse myself, but was ushered out of my tent by a violent poke in the ribs from my would-be host, it being a rule of Turkoman etiquette that "the harder the thrusts, the more cordial the invitation.
Not even the food, and still less the manner of eating, had any attraction for me, who for years and years had used his fingers as knife and fork, and who had now to observe the European table etiquette with all its rigour.
The Victorian carrier, formidable by his lack of professional etiquette and his extreme thrift, is neither admired nor caressed by the somewhat select practitioners of Riverina.
Each clasped his own hands and bowed low, with the observance of a long-hardened etiquette so dear to the Oriental heart.
The state of excitement I was in, was an ill preparative for the rigid etiquette of a court dinner.
She did not take the letter, and I could not help remarking how far, in this instance, the rigour of etiquette was kept up, even between these close friends.
At the period I mention, all sorts of etiquette had been abolished.
A condensed but thorough treatise on Etiquette and its usages in America.
To which is added the Etiquette of Courtship and Marriage.
A guide to the proper remarks to make on all ordinary occasions and the etiquette of such occasions.
The natural impatience of the active-minded American makes him at present very apt to neglect the etiquette of the game.
Those little infringements of etiquette are, after all, mere details, and will undoubtedly become less and less frequent before the growing knowledge and love of the game.
