Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
There is no pretence that these particular tyrants are not so bad as ordinary tyrants, nor these particular vanquished slaves not so good as ordinary vanquished slaves, and, unless this has been made clear in some way, it is dramatically de rigueur that the tyrants should come to grief, or be about to come to grief.
It was true, he had half tacitly acquiesced in the reserve with which he had been treated, and had never mingled socially in the gatherings of either sex at Indian Spring but that was no reason. He could at least dress himself, walk to the Court-house and look on. Any black coat and white shirt was sufficiently de rigueur for Indian Spring. Mr.
He had the less reason for regret since he was privileged instead to stroll up and down the veranda, "promenade" was the technical term, a slender hand, delicately gloved, on the sleeve of his gray uniform, the old regimentals being de rigueur at these reunions.
Each dance concluded, you lead your partner to a sort of bar where refreshments are furnished, and ask her whether she will take vino or dulces wine or candies? She will take dulces "Gracias, señor!" This is de rigueur. You pay for them of course, and conduct her to her seat.
Here was Jeeves making heavy weather about me wearing a perfectly ordinary white mess jacket, a garment not only tout ce qu'il y a de chic, but absolutely de rigueur, and in the same breath, as you might say, inciting Gussie Fink-Nottle to be a blot on the London scene in scarlet tights. Ironical, what? One looks askance at this sort of in-and-out running. "What has he got against Pierrots?"
Hackneyed phrases and quotations: "Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest." "Inclines towards the portly." "De rigueur." "Hold on our affections." "Ignore the charms of." Strange word: "Becomingness." Bad punctuation:
It was de rigueur to address such personages as "Nansen"; but Rhoda gained for herself the more picturesque title of "Hail Columbia" as she strode along, straight and alert, her tawny curls peeping from beneath a sealskin cap, her stars and stripes toboggan making a spot of colour in the midst of the universal whiteness.
Often, having been given no warning as to just when it was to be, there would be a mad scramble to get into our de rigueur Sunday clothes, for Culhane would not endure any flaws in our appearance, and if we were not ready and waiting when one of his stablemen swung the vehicle up to the door at the appointed time he was absolutely furious.
No kilted Jock goes with more swagger down Princes Street than Johnny Gurkha down the bazaar of Darrapore, particularly in the evening, when he doffs khaki for the mufti suit of his clan the spotless white shorts, coat of black sateen, little cocked cap and brightly bordered stockings a mode de rigueur that would be robbed of its final cachet without the black umbrella, tucked well up under the arm.
There were women of several nationalities, though they all looked raceless in the ugly uniforms which those same boards of directors consider de rigueur for the soul that is to be won back to the normal.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking