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Example sentences for "public places"

  • He had little first-hand knowledge, at present, of the latter; he merely watched them from afar and marked their deportment in public places.

  • It began to hurt him more and more to be in her company in public places.

  • In public places men do not jump up for every strange woman who happens to approach.

  • The great Mr. Pope (of whose prodigious genius I have no words to express my admiration) was quite a puny lad at this time, appearing seldom in public places.

  • This is somewhat too extreme for common use, and should be modified always in public, the less elaborate bow being much preferable upon the street or in public places.

  • While it is permissible in public places to make its cordiality, or lack of it, apparent, it is not permissible to greet fellow guests at any private social function with either more or less than a uniform and impartial courtesy.

  • Men do not observe the custom of withdrawing from society for as long a time as do the women, but usually reappear at the homes of intimate friends, at public places of entertainment, and at the club after two or three months.

  • The recent passage and enforcement of laws regarding expectoration in public places is a great step in advance, and must be rigidly maintained for the sake of the public health.

  • Public places should be free as to the species of amusement, but limited in their number, so as not to exceed the proportion which the population can bear.

  • The following list of public places, which I have transcribed for your satisfaction, was communicated to me by a person of veracity; and, as far as it goes, its correctness has been confirmed by my own observation.

  • Upon meeting in public places, it was no longer customary for the gentleman to uncover, or for the lady to cast a glance in acknowledgment of his salutation.

  • During the latter period on meeting friends or acquaintances in public places, it was a custom established from time immemorial, when ladies and gentlemen met, for the gentleman to uncover by raising his hat.

  • The twentieth century method of exchanging salutations in public places was in marked contrast with the custom that obtained in the nineteenth century.

  • Hotel corridors and halls may be classed as semi-public places.

  • Introductions are never made in the street or in public places of any kind, or in public conveyances, unless under exceptional circumstances.

  • Now the few female acquaintances whom Mrs. Crawley had known abroad not only declined to visit her when she came to this side of the Channel, but cut her severely when they met in public places.

  • Noncommissioned officers clothed in the proper uniform of their grade are on duty at all times and places for the suppression of disorderly conduct on the part of members of the company in public places.

  • Germs may be smeared on the hands and thus transferred to articles of food, fruit, cigarettes, or drinking cups, especially in public places, so that he who buys at the public stands may have disease handed to him with his purchase.

  • In public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theaters, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present.

  • The Moorish women of the better class are rarely seen upon the streets or in public places.

  • It is not the style of Our Court to have long negotiations; we don't fatigue the town with exhibiting the betrothed for six months together in public places.

  • But health does not give one the sort of spirits that make one like diversions, public places, and mixed company.

  • She insisted that no clean person, no matter how good a democrat, should be expected to sit close in public places to persons who were not on speaking terms with the bath-tub.

  • And Sacharissa, with all those excellences in one person, frequent the park, the play, and murder the poor tits that drag her to public places, and not a man turn pale at her appearance?

  • Footnote 381: "Combing the peruke, at the time when men of fashion wore large wigs, was even at public places an act of gallantry.

  • When its people are not eating in public places to the sound of music, they are likely to be amusing themselves in public places.

  • We enjoyed it as pilgrims and travelers, but one would scarcely wish to have so large a part of the family life habitually lived in public places.

  • Men of this sort will attend you to public places, and be useful to you by a number of little observances, which those of a superior class do not so well understand, or have not leisure to regard, or perhaps are too proud to submit to.

  • You may perhaps imagine, that the reserved behaviour which I recommend to you, and your appearing seldom at public places, must cut off all opportunities of your being acquainted with gentlemen.

  • I should be glad that you had an easy dignity in your behaviour at public places, but not that confident ease, that unabashed countenance, which seems to set the company at defiance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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