For a long time I sulked in silence, while the pilot, with better manners or more vitality than I, engaged the gendarmes in light conversation, conducted chiefly by gesture.
His manners were perfect, and although we discussed every subject under the sun in snatches of French and broken bits of Persian, we always managed to avoid awkward topics such as atrocities, reprisals, and the like.
I notice it here in manners and speech: how can a people who speak with no tonic accents in their words help being cleaner and neater in expressing themselves?
He lingered awhile, his charming manners undismayed still, his eye as undaunted as at the beginning, and then he suddenly died.
I go there of a Sunday afternoon, whenever possible, to read anew the gospel of their beautiful life and manners and bring away a text for the good of my own household.
This was all the witchcraft it had used--that of manners understood with all the extensions at once and all the particularisations to which it is the privilege of the highest conception of manners to lend itself.
She was of an exquisite Grecian outline as to face, with a countenance like the tender dawn and form and manners ravishingly graceful.
How delightful that face has ever been to me since first I beheld it; how your frank and gracious and healing manners have shed on my soul a celestial dew whenever I have encountered you: I despair to tell you in fitting words.
Henry James was true comfort--wise, gentle, polished, with heroic manners and a serenity like the sun.
I had but to wait a few days before I learned why this change in manners had taken place.
Anne Ashton was one of those essentially quiet, self-possessed girls in society, whose manners seem almost to border on apathy.
She looked at me and to save hermanners I told her right quick what the meaning of it was, me understanding it on account of being precocious and also at Rufe's last winter, where they use strange words.
I couldn't tell whether he smiled at me or not; but I remembered my manners even on such a critical occasion, so I got up and let them look.
Some ran to pull the fellow out, and others to let manners into the vulgarian with their swords and daggers; but a tap from his club sent them headlong into the moat or down on the stones, and they were soon begging him to stay his hands.
But Christabel was quite as clever as those brilliant creatures whose easy manners had enchanted him in days gone by.
Our comedy, he says, represents human life, the manners of citizens and the people, much better than the French and Spanish comedies, in which all the business of life is mixed up with love affairs.
The influence of manners and customs over the ideas and language of a people would form a subject of extensive and curious research.
The subject was at once poetical and ethical; and the poets and painters of Germany adopting the skeleton, sent forth this chimerical Ulysses of another world to roam among the men and manners of their own.
Philip of Macedon to, 142; description of the person and manners of, ib.
Moliere laughed at the term s'encanailler, to describe one who assumed the manners of a blackguard; the expressive word has remained in the language.
We discover the rustic manners of our ancient Britons in the Cambrian proverbs; many relate to the hedge.
This cause will sufficiently account for the number of Italian proverbs relating to England, which show an intimacy with our manners that could not else have occurred.
The Spaniards had their gallantry from the Moors, and their manners from chivalry; to which they added their tumid African taste, differing from that of other nations.
The manners of a people are painted after life in their domestic proverbs; and it would not be advancing too much to assert, that the genius of the age might be often detected in its prevalent ones.
Casie Chitty on "the Manners and Customs of the Moors of Ceylon.
Ask him of the manners of the people, and he will tell you that the skirt is worn much shorter in France, and that everybody eats macaroni in Italy.
Peter Manners sat on the edge of his bed in momentary confusion, then made up his mind.
Keep your nerve, Peter Manners told himself; it's only a job.
Peter Manners stood watching the hoses of the firemen hiss against what was left of Lex and her husband.
I have never contracted any debts, and my manners are pure and uncorrupted.
Ladies of gentle birth and manners caught the contagion of murder, until poisoning, under their auspices, became quite fashionable.
In the hey-day of its blood, during the progress of this dangerous delusion, the manners of the nation became sensibly corrupted.
Those travellers who have made national manners and characteristics their peculiar study, have often observed and remarked upon this feeling.
Unlike the class above them, their habits and manners did not lead them to seek the battle-field on every slight occasion.
Their manners being wholly warlike, the man deficient in courage, the prime virtue of his fellows, was not unreasonably suspected of other vices besides cowardice, which is generally found to be co-existent with treachery.
Preserving the language and manners of their old, with the finery of their new station, they afforded continual subjects for the pity of the sensible, the contempt of the sober, and the laughter of every body.
The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
It is because of the shifting manners of the city, and the falling back of men.
No one has surpassed him in his own way, and his store of epigrams, illustrating life and manners at Rome, is abundant.
Amongst the ancients, wisdom required austere manners and a length of beard to command attention; but in our days, instruction, in the dress of innocent amusement, is not denied admittance amongst the wise and good of all ranks.
Saladin's shop was soon crowded with customers; and his winning manners and pleasant conversation were almost as advantageous to him as his scarlet dye.
Their manners then became more brutal; and they thought, felt, and lived like men of desperate fortunes.
Without having the appearance or manners of a gentlewoman, Miss Jessy Bettesworth was, notwithstanding, such a pretty, showy girl, that she generally contrived to attract notice.
Two other candidates were his competitors; one of them was Counsellor Quin, a man of vulgar manners and mean abilities, but yet one who could drink and cajole electors full as well as Sir Hyacinth, with all his wit and elegance.
Stafford some time after his marriage took his wife to England, to see his mother, who was soon reconciled to him and her Irish daughter-in-law, whose gentle manners and willing obedience overcame her unreasonable dislike.
I was astonished as much as shocked at the sudden alteration in the manners of all my acquaintances.
Even the old families who regarded the Prefect as partly one of themselves, and for his birth and manners forgave his opinions, found a difficulty in swallowing the General.
Very well--but you would not like Georges to bring such manners home from Spain!
Manners should be the same, whether people are tall or short, great or humble.
There were two or three people at the other end of the room, but all strangers to her, and all passing out gradually; no one coming towards her, no one to rescue her from the extraordinary manners of this man.
His manners were those of the great world; he was one of the noblest and most popular of the men of old family who had rallied to the Empire, believing that Napoleon's genius and the glory of France were one.
There was something clandestine about the affair which touched the little gentleman's sense of honour; his code of manners and good breeding was also offended.
His loud voice and swaggering manners could not be agreeable to a person of Monsieur Urbain's measured mind and self-controlled ways.
With his glittering uniform, his look of a coarse Roman, he was the very type of military tyranny at its worst, without even the good manners of past days to soften the frank insolence of a soldier.
His politemanners were all very well, but his words to Henriette just now were insulting.
Her mannerswere frank and simple, she had suffered, she had studied the world and knew it, and used it without a scruple for her own advantage.
Indeed you are very much mistaken," her mother said quickly, "if you think the Revolution has altered the manners of society.
Certain it is, to pleasing manners and ability owed he his success; without either he could not have succeeded.
At another time he said: "Good principles, good temper, and good manners will carry a young man through the world much better than he can get along with the absence of either.
As far as my manners are concerned, I have seen all kinds of customs on my travels and improved my own as much as I could; I also haven't wasted any time in Brescia, but rather used books to catch up on what I had missed in my youth.
Furthermore, yourmanners point to a better upbringing than what these papers attest.
He would think of himself as being a civilized man, to whom the manners of the people were revolting, and he would endeavour, whilst avoiding their example, to set them a better.
Sometimes we find people who have willingly settled in a foreign country, and done their best to forget the manners and language of their native land.
He gave you your religion, manners and customs--he gave us ours.
It was doubtful if he ever had an evil thought, and while his manners might have been at times blunt, he was always sincere and his language chosen and chaste, with the possible exception during battle.
It had seemed to her mere good manners to assume that he did not want the trouble of her acquaintance, and be done with it.
Bertoldo tells Antonio that he had been initiated in the manners suited to the court by two or three sacred beauties, and that a similar experience would be equally useful for his initiation into the camp.
The more decorous manners of the present age have attached a disproportionate opprobrium to this foible, and many therefore abstain with cautious prudence from all displays of what they feel.
Her demeanor, on the few occasions of their meeting, was constrained and distant; her countenance clouded with suspicion, her manners frozen with reserve and hauteur.
It is neither the birth nor character, nor the good manners nor valour of a man, that ensures him his success in any undertaking, except it be by the merit of his acts in former births.
Thy gait and figure, thy features and thy form, thy sweet smiles, manners and courtesy, bespeak thee plainly, to be an ectype or counterpart of the image of my wedded wife.
He then roved about different countries and went to distant islands (to see the various manners of men); till at last he turned unawares to his natal land and city, which was in the grasp of his enemies.
Bhusunda traces his origin from the Matres, whose manners and revelries he describes in length.
It was reserved for the latter half of the fifteenth century to witness the birth of events destined to introduce new manners and a fresh order of politics into Europe, and to lead the world towards the direction it follows at present.
