Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
Blithers wrathfully, and mopped his brow with a hand rendered unsteady by a mental convulsion. He was thinking of his hat-lifting experience. True to schedule, the procession passed the hotel at five. Bands were playing, people were shouting, banners were waving, and legions of mounted and foot soldiers in brilliant array clogged the thoroughfare.
There were hat-lifting scurries of wind down the mountain-side, small tumults in little lakes below, hysteric ebullitions on mild, melancholy inland seas, boisterous passages of nearly half an hour with landings on tempestuous miniature quays.
Politeness is a thing of hat-lifting, of bowing and scraping, of 'Pardon! and 'Merci! It is an article to be worn, like a dress-coat and a white tie, in a drawing-room and among our acquaintances. We have the right article for that occasion very sweet, very refined, very graceful, very charming indeed. But as for everyday use nenni!"
In the hotels dancing was promised the german was announced; on the galleries and in the corridors were groups of young people, a little loud in manner and voice, the young gentleman, with his over-elaborate manner to ladies in bowing and hat-lifting, and the blooming girls from the lesser Southern cities, with the slight provincial note, and yet with the frank and engaging cordiality which is as charming as it is characteristic.
In the hotels dancing was promised the german was announced; on the galleries and in the corridors were groups of young people, a little loud in manner and voice, the young gentleman, with his over-elaborate manner to ladies in bowing and hat-lifting, and the blooming girls from the lesser Southern cities, with the slight provincial note, and yet with the frank and engaging cordiality which is as charming as it is characteristic.
Upon her return he again saluted her with a few words, adding to them a lifting of wings and spreading of his beautiful tail that most comically suggested the bowing and hat-lifting of bigger gentlemen. In all their life together, even when the demands of three infants kept them busy from morning till night, he never forgot this little civility to his helpmate.
In the hotels dancing was promised the german was announced; on the galleries and in the corridors were groups of young people, a little loud in manner and voice, the young gentleman, with his over-elaborate manner to ladies in bowing and hat-lifting, and the blooming girls from the lesser Southern cities, with the slight provincial note, and yet with the frank and engaging cordiality which is as charming as it is characteristic.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking