Evidently they proposed to present themselves before Varr without theformality of announcing themselves through Bates.
She was taking this new view of her position when Barbara, without the usual formality of knocking, came rushing in with the eager air of a person who brings news and a message.
Restraint verging at times on over-formality is the keynote of the new era, in which for people of culture in all parts of Europe the newly-found vases and sculptures of ancient Greece and Rome were the admired models.
This beauty of colour, combined with the faultless spacing of the decoration, compensates for a certain prim formality noticeable when comparison is made with the less orderly designs of the Ming dynasty.
She could be as coldly polite as any occasion demanded; but, believing that she had effectually put an end to his love-making for the day, she met his formality of manner in her naturally charming and friendly spirit.
Come, let us show you the rose garden, Senor Stanley," she said with playful formality and placed her silk-gloved fingers on his arm.
Benito reined his horse as he reached the Plaza where a dozen other mounts were tethered and left his steed to crop the short grass without the formality of hitching.
Faith, Sir, I came not abroad to return with the formality of a Judge; and these are such antidotes against Melancholy as wou'd make thee fond of fooling.
No sooner were the three lads out of sight of the attap-thatched roofs and the island, the fort and steamer, than all formality was thrown to the winds, and they tramped on chattering away like children.
But there is a still more important reason for it, of a directly contrary nature to that which its formality would seem to require.
So from its Eastern formalitythe scene changed to Western ways.
Almost as soon as the Pilkinses were seated he broke through the film ice of formality by remarking that Southern California was, on the whole, a wonderful country, was it not?
On the 10th December the same formalitywas gone through with regard to Yacoub Sami and Mahmoud Fehmi.
Although on the death of Tewfik the new Khedive was de jure as well as de facto the ruler of Egypt, his recognition by an Imperial Firman from the Porte was a formality which nevertheless had to be observed.
There is a curious formality and staidness about him and his companions which never degenerates into shyness.
Hence, we have in Emerson the teaching of a vigorous morality without the formality of dogma and the deadly tedium of didactics.
I have already said that there should be no formality between friends.
Your compliance with this request cannot possibly be fraught with any danger; it has probably been made because some formality or other was forgotten.
There is a great deal offormality in official and social life.
Within the city limits we had to wear some sort of bathing-dress, and we preferred going with a crowd of other boys beyond the line where no such formality was expected of us.
I suppose we had turkey for our dinner, but I am surer of the manner than the make of the feast, for it was served with a formality new to my unworldly experience.
How far the followers of these good men in our days have kept to the primitive spirit, or in what proportion they have substituted formality for it, the Judge of Spirits can alone determine.
There was now and then the formality of saying a lesson, but if you had not learned it, a brush across the shoulders (just enough to disturb a fly) was the sole remonstrance.
I remember a pleasant passage, of the cook applying to him, with much formality of apology, for instructions how to write down edge bone of beef in his bill of commons.
Let us religiously preserve our secret from the knowledge of the world: when we meet in company, let it be with the coldformality which exists between persons who are almost strangers; but now let us revel in the joys of love.
I should be pleased to accompany you," she said with all the politeness and formality she could muster, "but I reckon I'd better be going home now.
First, pray be so good as to inform me whether or not you deem it necessary to resort to the formality of some such small difference of opinion as might serve as an ostensible excuse for my challenge?
Yet, though Bazarov grumbled, he and Arkady found that to that very formality they owed the fact that everything in the establishment "ran as on rails.
The night-message also seems to indicate a sorry substitution for the formality of the post.
Letters stand halfway between the formlessness of conversation and the formality of essay or fiction.
