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He is a fat, rather intelligent-looking man, well mannered, and sensible. I gave him one secret letter, and he will make his observations upon it. He left Lord William at the mouth of the Hooghly. They had found out the removal of the Government was contrary to law. They had intended to be itinerant for a year or two. It is only in the Bengal army that the officers are old.
She lay in the Sloyne, in the midst of a broad basin of the Mersey, with a pleasant landscape of green England, now warm with summer sunshine, on either side, with churches and villa residences, and suburban and rural beauty. The officers of the ship are gentlemanly men, externally very well mannered, although not polished and refined to any considerable extent.
"Brownie's much too well mannered to criticize anyone else's property, but when she got out she merely said, 'You have great courage, my dear. And wild horses wouldn't get her into it again, unless we promised to 'make it walk, like we did the day we brought her over to help at your working bee.
But these gaily, if lightly dressed people below, albeit vivacious, hurried and uncommunicative, were dexterously mannered and certainly quite at their ease with regard to one another.
On the mainland the kindred culture of Mycenæ was rising to its culmination, and the art represented in the Circle-Graves was almost in the fulness of its bloom. Naturalism declines in its turn, and is succeeded by the Later Palace style, more grandiose, more mannered, and less free than that which had preceded it.
It remained over the high-altar of the Church of the Serviti, at Pesaro, till acquired by Mr. Solly, from whom it was purchased by Mr. Bromley. Very interesting memoirs of all the personages here referred to may be found in Mr. Those of his pictures which I have seen are of very unequal merit, and, with much feeling and expression in the heads, are often mannered and fantastic as compositions.
"Passing well," said Sir Piers, "for 'tis but a few weeks past that I had speech with him at Dumbarton." "Ah, then you heard also of my son my dear son Harald?" cried Earl John eagerly. "The saints grant that you bring me no ill news of him! But come, I beg you, for 'tis ill mannered in me thus to question you ere you have broken bread."
Can they carry into the world, whither we send them later, aught of coarseness, of untruthfulness, of slatternliness, of vulgarity, if their home has been orderly, if their parents have been refined, their servants well mannered, their friends and playmates kindly and carefully trained as themselves?
"I knew him at Madrid, where he lived with Mocenigo our ambassador; he is well mannered, polite, and a fine looking young man, and that's all I know about him." "Was he received at the Spanish Court?" "I think so, but I cannot be positive." "Well, I think he was not received; but I see that you won't tell me all you know about him.
They are expected to be especially quiet, deft and well mannered, and they should be dressed with that entire suitability to their occupation which is a mark of the well-bred girl. These girls have often been brought up with no special occupation in view possibly they had not expected to earn a living by paid employment.
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