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His devotion to his sovereign has led him in all things to demean himself as an American, acquiring thereby the confidence of these United States, your good and faithful friends and allies, and the affection of their citizens. We pray God to keep your majesty in his holy protection.
Have you ever seen a butterfly close to the candle? My man will hover incessantly round me in the same way as the butterfly gyrates round the candle-light. Liberty will have no longer charms for him; he will grow more and more restless, more and more amazed let me but give him plenty of time, and he will demean himself in a way to prove his guilt as plainly as that twice two our four!
He came in the evening, and seeing a seeming beggar seated on the threshold, he flew into a rage and shouted at him: 'Get away from here, old fellow, lest you be dragged away by the hand or foot. Look you! The lords within the house are giving me the wink to turn you out. But I can't demean myself by touching the like of you. Get up now and go while I'm easy with you.
"I suppose they're all friends of Mrs. T.'s?" asked Bozzle. "Sir," said the Colonel, "I believe that you're a spy." "No, Colonel, no; no, no; I'm no spy. I wouldn't demean myself to be such. A spy is a man as has no profession, and nothing to justify his looking into things. Things must be looked into, Colonel; or how's a man to know where he is? or how's a lady to know where she is?
"Isn't it the great fool you are, Pat Rooney, to go give up your good place for a stupid notion like this? Ye know Miss Elleney 'ud never demean herself to you." "Ay, ma'am, I know she looks on me as the dirt under her feet." "Then stop where ye are," said Mrs. McNally, comfortably.
"Has Lady Coryston found out yet?" "That we get on? I am sure she has never imagined that Mr. Arthur could so demean himself." "But she must find out some day." "Oh yes, I mean her to," said Miss Glenwilliam, quietly. She reached out a long hand toward Marion's cat and stroked it. Then she turned her large eyes of pale hazel set under beautiful dark brows to her companion.
But it would conduce to my equanimity, Jem, to know whether we are quarrelling, as in that case I should know how to demean myself. 'I've no quarrel with you. You have far more reason But, added Jem, catching himself up, 'don't you know I have no leisure for trifling? The Ordination is the second week in March. 'The Ordination! 'Ay you know it! My fellowship depends on it.
And I whispered to him and sez, "Don't demean yourself by tryin' to force your company onto them any more." "Wall," he whispered back, "I do love to move in high circles." Sez I, "Then I shouldn't think you would be so afraid of the undertakin' ahead on us. If neighborin' with the old man in the moon, and eatin' supper with him, haint movin' in high circles, then I don't know what is."
Hatchway listened to his injunctions with great attention, and promised to demean himself accordingly. Then the discourse shifted to an agreeable recapitulation of the merry scenes they had formerly acted together.
You call yourself a Christian, do you, to stay in another man's house, month after month, when you know you ha'n't got the means to give him the rent for it! That's what I call stealing, and it's what I'd live in the County House before I'd demean myself to do I and so ought you." "Well, well! neighbour," said Mr. Ringgan, with patient dignity, "it's no use calling names.