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He seems to have been always ready to supply a dedication for a friend, a task which he executed with more than ordinary courtliness.

The indecent word would have been known but for the delicacy or courtliness of Muratori, who substituted an _et-cetera_ in its place, observing, that he had "covered" with it "an indecent word not fit to be printed" ("sotto quell'_et-cetera_ ho io coperta un'indecente parola, che non era lecito di lasciar correre alle stampe." _Opere del Tasso,_ vol. xvi. p. 114).

Then mounting his stout mare, he once more waived his hand with an air of courtliness to his hostess, and was soon out of sight.

A RIGHT-MINDED GREAT LADY The bow, the welcome, and the introductory remarks passed rapidly as the pull at two sides of a curtain opening on a scene that stiffens courtliness to hard attention.

Unquestionably he was victoriously handsome, seen thus, uplifted above the throng, handling his fine horses, all trace of bodily disfigurement concealed, a touch of old-world courtliness and tender respect in his manner as he addressed his mother.

He took her hand and kissed it with a certain courtliness and reverent fervour. "I came to look for something here," he said, "which I have looked for at many times and in very various places, yet never somehow managed to find." But Katherine, at once tenderly charmed and rendered yet more anxious by a quality in his manner and his speech unfamiliar to her, the purport of which she failed at once to gauge, answered him literally. "My dearest, why didn't you tell me? This man was her enemy, all the more dangerous because he was also her guardian, but it would be wise to keep him in ignorance of how fully she understood him. "Your arrival is unexpected, sir." "Yet not altogether unwelcome, I trust," said Sir John, treating her with studied courtliness, a manner he could use to perfection. "I was obliged to come to town, and could not refrain from coming to see you.

He took his leave with distinguished courtliness. "If I have a moment I shall run in to-morrow morning just to let you know I'm all right," said he, in the white street. "Oh, do!" said Constance.

The fat woman, appeased, pursued her way. "Good-bye, madame!" said Chirac, with his customary courtliness, transforming the landing of the hideous hotel into some imperial antechamber. "Are you going away?" she asked, in surprise.

TREE IN THE CHARACTER OF BEAU AUSTIN 'To all and singular,' as Dryden says, We bring a fancy of those Georgian days, Whose style still breathed a faint and fine perfume Of old-world courtliness and old-world bloom: When speech was elegant and talk was fit For slang had not been canonised as wit; When manners reigned, when breeding had the wall, And Women - yes! - were ladies first of all; When Grace was conscious of its gracefulness, And man - though Man! - was not ashamed to dress.

"It was a favorite instrument of Louis XIV of France and acquired associations of both courtliness and ""Frenchness"" (in contrast to the Italianate violin)."

The upper class or nobility, represented chiefly by the Knight and his Squire, was in Chaucer's time steeped in a culture of chivalry and courtliness.


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