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'For that,' said the Bishop, 'you must leave the supply till you are over the Border, when the Lady Glenuskie will see to your appearing as nigh as may be as befits the daughters of Scotland among your English kin.
'And she is our maiden, and it befits us not that she should look like ane scrub,' added Jean, in the words used by her brother's descendant, a century later.
But if my Lord Douglas would honour my suite by assuming the place that befits him, I should be happy that aught of mine should serve-' 'I am beholden to you, my Lord, for the offer,' replied George, somewhat roughly.
Solemn indeed, as befits the subject, is the preliminary announcement:- "This book in praise of tea, written by a Japanese, will surely find sympathetic readers in England, where the custom of tea-drinking has become so important a part of the national daily life.
Of course rich people always gave banquets from time to time, and these were occasions when, in Lord Beaconsfield's drolly vulgar phrase, "the dinner was stately, as befits the high nobility.
In this belief he writes not only seriously, but soberly, as befits the great hour, and concludes his book with a vivid and moving description of the Battle of the Marne which has in it a world of eloquence and no "cleverness" at all.
They have certain professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities, as well as inclinations.
Good Master Wilson, I pray you, examine this Pearl-since that is her name-and see whether she hath had such Christian nurture as befits a child of her age.
I think you're right that Miller includes Jamaica--as befits his mode of intellectual genealogy--mostly to represent rock's effect on the world and vice-versa.
The trip would have been his 34 th abroad during his 67 months in office, the newspaper said, and "[o]n every trip, the President--with the First Lady on occasion--brings with him at least a hundred official, security and personal staff, as befits the powers and responsibilities of his office.
Today's CIA people are not wine snobs--in fact, many of them prefer beer, while others refrain from even coffee, as befits good Mormons.
Instead of accepting either view, let's get the government out of marriage and allow individuals to make their own marriage contracts, as befits a secular, individualist republic at the dawn of the information age.
" That isn't, in the end, what the aliens have in mind, but the term Trojan horse --the durable ancestor of the expressions fifth column and mole , and of the modifier stealth --has certainly been enjoying a prominent vitality these days, as befits an era that values frontal hostility far less than it does insidious subterfuge.
" Pynchon : As befits a man guarding, as opposed to flaunting, his privacy, Pynchon has kept his private life private.
Faculty and staff were interviewed individually, as befits their rank.
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