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He wore his green chiton with a rakishness that proved him anything but a dandy. His companion, addressed as Democrates, slighter, blonder, showed Simonides a handsome and truly Greek profile, set off by a neatly trimmed reddish beard. His purple-edged cloak fell in statuesque folds of the latest mode, his beryl signet-ring, scarlet fillet, and jewelled girdle bespoke wealth and taste.
Its flowing verse, defaced by rhymical faults perceptible only to finer ears, its prevailing sentiment, occasional boldness relieved by pleasing platitudes, its half affected rakishness, here and there elevated by a rush as of morning air, and its frequent richness not yet, as afterwards, splendour of description, were all appreciated by the fashionable London of the Regency; while the comparatively mild satire, not keen enough to scarify, only gave a more piquant flavour to the whole.
"I was just having a little fun on the side nothing serious, mind you! But of course I didn't tell Flora every little thing . No man does! There've been other girls other women " "Tracey isn't worse than the other men!" Flora flamed up. "He's such a darling that all the girls pet him, and spoil him " Dundee could stand no more of Miles' complacent acceptance of his own rakishness.
The scene of the invasion of Steignton by the woman and her aunt, and that man Morsfield, was a steel engraving among her many rapid and featureless cogitations. She magnified the rakishness of the woman's hand on hip in view of the house, and she magnified the woman's insolence in bringing that man Morsfield to share probably the hospitality of Steignton during the master's absence!
He answered the question again because Mr Bailey asked it again; Mr Bailey asked it again, because accompanied with a straddling action of the white cords, a bend of the knees, and a striking forth of the top-boots it was an easy horse-fleshy, turfy sort of thing to do. 'Wot are you up to, old feller? added Mr Bailey, with the same graceful rakishness.
His cousin stood for everything he detested swagger, arrogance, self-assurance. He hated the shabby rakishness of his attire, the self-assertive aquiline beak of a nose which he had inherited from his father, the Rector. He dreaded his aggressive masculinity. He had come back with the same insulting speech on his lips. His finger-nails were dreadful.
Every thing around bore some testimony of the spirit of low debauchery; and the man himself, with his flushed and sensual countenance, his unwashed hands, and the slovenly rakishness of his whole appearance, made no unfitting representation of the Genius Loci.
To convince ourselves of this, we do not need to recall the effect of Werther, of Childe Harold, and of Don Juan, and the imitation of their sentimentality, misanthropy, and adventure, down to the copying of the rakishness of the loosely-knotted necktie and the broad turn-over collar.
He is rather rakish; he plays a great deal." "But is that considered here a proof of rakishness?" asked Bernard. "Have n't you played a little yourself?" Gordon hesitated a moment. "Yes, I have played a little. I wanted to try some experiments. I had made some arithmetical calculations of probabilities, which I wished to test." Bernard gave a long laugh.
We remember that for a brief period in the England of Charles II, James II, and William and Mary, rakishness in the plays of Wycherley and Congreve had a glamour of romance upon it and was popular. Indeed, the novel or drama that gives to a generation the escape it desires will always be popular.
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