After the refreshing cold water in the bright tin basin by the kitchen door he went to his room for a presentable necktie and handkerchief--Lucy was very severe about the latter--and then walked into the dining room.
He added this in an accent of profound surprise, as if she had suddenly grown presentable under his eyes.
When I get the dust of ages washed off and make myselfpresentable I will hunt you up.
Very young, of course, and will be for years to come, yet tolerably presentable for an ingenue.
In addition, Nickie was leading a fairly fat and easy life; he had put on condition; he was quite at his best; and a flirtatious matron might have found him a fairly presentable person.
There was nothing of interest in the prison; {214}nothing but four stone walls and a low roof, with a floor that would have been more presentable had it been swept and washed.
Late in the afternoon we received our clothes from the kitchen, and were able to appear presentable at dinner time.
He was not presentable in polite society after that, but rather looked as though he had been hired out by the day as a friction roller for smoothing a freshly flowed swamp.
The never good material was stretched out of shape, was frayed and worn gray in spots, was beyond being made up as presentable by the most careful pressing and cleaning.
She found that silk flowers were beyond her means; so she took a bunch of presentable looking violets of the cheaper kind at two dollars and a half.
She looked him over at leisure and sighed at his tie; otherwise he was thoroughly presentable according to the strictest Washington standard.
Despite this almost unconscious mental aggressiveness, she was unusually presentable and always well-groomed and pleasant of speech.
By the time the tenth of July came, she was in very presentable condition, while the contents of the trunk did the remainder.
She told him simply a few of the most presentable details of her life: how she had lost her money, then had been given her mother's farm, about the children, and how she now lived.
Body means only what is presentable to the senses.
On Berkeley's reasoning all terms which involve the assumption that real causality is something presentable to the senses are a cover for meaninglessness.
For showing the active cause at work in the production of motion in bodies, it is of no avail to name, as if it were a datum of sense, what is not presentable to our senses.
The only gentlemanliness she needs in a husband is ordinary good address, presentable manners, sense enough to avoid ridiculous solecisms in society, and so forth.
That he was barely able to support himself, and scarcely possessed a presentable suit of clothes, was to their minds the most inconsequent of trifles.
Veronica, well padded with pillows, made a stout andpresentable Sir Anthony Absolute, and played the autocratic parent to the life.
You look so much more than presentable that anybody but a hardened brute of an examiner would be bowled over by you utterly and entirely.
Going out of a Sunday required presentable clothes, which she did not possess.
At one point he added, "Not that you are a bad-looking fellow as it is, but then one must be presentable in America.
The result was that in the evening I made myself as presentable as I could, and repaired to the synagogue where he spent much of his time reading Talmud I had not visited the place since that memorable day, my first day in America.
They said she was coquettish, that she played at the game of love with every presentable young man--envious calumny!
Arrayed in clean linen and presentable clothes, pale from indoor confinement and fever, but once more the straight and strong cavalier of the hills, he hastened into her presence when the summons came for him to descend.
We have very thoughtful chambermaids," remarked Beverly while Aunt Fanny was putting her hair into presentable shape.
Even the first summer they can be made to look quite presentable by planting the =Japanese hop=.
He wore a false beard, and carried off well his garments of white and scarlet and gold--a very striking and presentable man.
A casserole presentable enough in appearance to be put on the table serves the double purpose of baking and serving dish.
Modern library conveniences are presented in so handy and presentable shapes that the room may be perfectly equipped as a literary workshop without crowding it, or detracting from its appearance.
It was hot, of course, and nearly parboiled me of a summer evening, but I bore my suffering like the hero that I was, in order that I might make a presentable figure in the eyes of my classmates.
I lived along from noon to noon in presentable condition, but I was always hungry.
Daubrel was an excellent man, rather commonplace perhaps, but presentable enough, and even fairly good-looking, who would no doubt do his best to make her happy.
XII Mrs. Mavick thought herself fortunate in finding, in the social wilderness of Rivervale, such a presentable young gentleman as Philip.
A man appeared in shirt-sleeves of grey flannel and wheeled my boxes away on a little truck, and after a while a master came down and showed us, in a perfunctory manner, over the more presentable quarters of the school.
Miss Melville was presentable anywhere, though she was only a governess.
