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..., he had a certain elegance of manner which proved him to be a man of some breeding. When the captain had dropped back close to the carriage, 57 Balz... ...roach him with a torch in one hand and a fagot of sticks in the other, the captive gave a dreadful groan, which so wrought upon the sensibilities of M... ...ld soldier resounded in the adjoining room. “Well, commandant, where is my captive?” she said. “I have just ordered a picket of twelve men to shoot hi... ... may be able to love violently, but he will never have that fine flower of breeding in his gallantry which dis- tinguished Lauzun, Adhemar, Coigny, an...

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...f never more seeing those who, notwithstanding their desire to retain me a captive, had, upon the whole, treated me so kindly. I was leaving them for ... ...d be, tobacco. The latter, however, is most in request; as a solace to the captive, it is invaluable. Having fairly carried the day against both consu... ... absolutely unendurable. I resolved on a courteous salute, to show my good-breeding, if nothing more. But, happening to wear a sort of turban— hereaft... ...d; and for fear of looking silly, the doc- tor and myself. As soon as good-breeding would permit, we took leave. The hypocrisy in matters of religion,...

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... open- ing the road for a soldierly retreat. She interposed to protect the captive or the wounded—she mourned over the excesses of her countrymen—she ... ...es, and sometimes “vermin.” A T urkish Effendi, who piques himself on good breeding, will never mention by name a pig. Yet it is but too often that he... ...on. Now I, who am an English Effendi, that think myself to understand good-breeding as well as any son of Othman, beg my reader’s pardon for hav- ing ...

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...nterview with the Frenchman, our Judge had dis- covered him to be a man of breeding, and one who had seen much more prosperous days in his own country... ...nd Louisa were greatly excited and highly gratified by seeing two thousand captives thus drawn from the bosom of the lake, and laid prisoners at their... ... which guided the conduct of Miss T emple suggested itself to a man of the breeding and education of the youth; and it is very certain that, if such w... ... and in that country, have ex- cited any very powerful curiosity. With his breeding, it might have been different; but the youth himself had so effect... ...ough which a few wistful faces were gazing at the crowd without. Among the captives were the guilty, downcast countenances of the counterfeiters, and ... ...inful task would have soon ended; for they would have consumed already the captives they inclosed. But the peculiarity of their situation afforded Eli... ...stand. They have extended his title to me, I have no other Indian blood or breeding; though I have seen the hour, Judge Temple, when I could wish that...

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...e atrocious monuments of the Assyrian cruelty in the treatment of military captives. In one of the plates of Chap xx., at page 456, is exhibited some ... ... another, at page 458, is exhibited the abominable process, applied to two captives, of flaying them alive. One such case had been previously recorded... ... sure that I may not be trespassing on some mysterious law of English good-breeding.” In vain I suggested to him that most of what passed amongst fore... ...giving the least opening or invitation to the retorts of ill-temper or low breeding. But, whatever be its origin, such I believe to be the fact. In a ... ... both sides, he observed the terms with rigorous fidelity, treated all his captives with the utmost hu- manity, and even liberated the women. Thus far... ...was, he determined to pursue, and perhaps to speak. The restraints of high breeding, and the ceremonious de- corum of his rank, involuntarily checked ... ...dard and final court of appeal in all matters of taste, elegance, and high breeding. Hence it naturally hap- pened that everybody with any claims to s...

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...ters to which I was a total stranger. This usually argues either a want of breeding or great contempt for the stranger present who is thus shut out fr... ...sole me, and it frequently recalled him to a sense of politeness and good- breeding. But before long I fell into the furnace of an unex- pected misery... ...e head of her son, who walked feebly beside her, silent, as though he were breeding an illness, she told me of her nights beside his pillow. For three... ...ed that nothing should disturb her feast, and guarded me like a rebellious captive. I wrote to Henriette under her very eyes, but she 167 Balzac neve...

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.... Abdulla glanced at her swiftly for a second, and then, with perfect good breeding, fixed his eyes on the ground. She put out towards him her hand, c... ...s when the voice is silenced, while the thoughts flutter in the head, like captive birds inside a cage, in rushes des- perate, exhausting and vain. Du... ...ible, enraged and mournful, in which all her strength went out to make him captive, to hold him for ever. He said nothing. He looked into her eyes whi... ...e companion of their disaster. To the river Willems turned his eyes like a captive that looks fixedly at the door of his cell. If there was any hope i...

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... Heriot commended him to rectories, vicarages, and cu- rates’ lodgings for breeding grounds, and coming round to Julia related one of the racy dialogu... ...ion, ‘I have met your father.’ Sir Roderick, an Englishman reputed of good breeding, informed the son that he had actually met the father in lofty soc... ...ne or two of the more venerable dames, which were not quite proper to good breeding. Old Lady Kane, great-aunt of the Marquis of Edbury, was par- ticu... ...id the serious matter in all but distant allusions; a point upon which the breeding of Mr. Serjeant Wedderburn was not so accurate a guide to him. An ... ...nerbridge perceived that I had come on an errand, and with her gentle good breeding led me to speak of it. She knew nothing whatever of the sum of mon... ...had a low-toned nervous system.’ I was silent, and followed him, at once a captive and a keeper. This day of slackened sails and a bright sleeping wat... ...out as tender in my care of him as a military escort bound to deliver up a captive alive. I left him at Bulsted on my way to London to face the credit...

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...a man resemble an angel, he certainly had that resemblance. The redeemed captive had not altogether so much of the 378 The History of Tom Jones, A F... ...every one who would in any degree deserve the characters of wisdom or good breeding. As Jones, therefore, might very justly be called a well bred man,... ...to the no less vehement remon strances of Mrs. Whitefield, who, from good breeding, or perhaps from good nature (for the poor young lady appeared muc... ...penetrating eye to discern a fool through the disguises of gaiety and good breeding. “It will be easily imagined that, when I once despised my husba... ... parties; indeed he was very little with my husband, and no more than good breeding constrained him to be, as he lived almost constantly at our house.... ...I may send to you to morrow—” Jones had natural, but not artificial good breeding. In stead, therefore, of communicating the secret of his lodg in...

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...ong as Stokesley had been a parish, and those qualities of honour and good breeding that mark the gentleman had not been wanting to the elder members ... ...front of the rose-bush, flies instantly at whoever is only coming near his captive. Ha! Susan had nearly—all but done it, while Hal was chas- ing away...

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...ad read in the Globe ‘turnovers’ on that subject. But he showed his gentle breeding by keeping his gloves on all through the Sunday’s ride, and ostent... ... us go back to that hotel at Rufus Stone. I don’t see why we should be led captive.” So to the consternation of the tandem riders, Jessie and her comp...

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... found it utterly impossible to succeed; she thanked Heaven she understood breeding better than that. And so well bred was the good woman, that we cou... ... quarrel, and joined to support one cause, we land-men rather seemed to be captives on board an enemy’s vessel. This is a grievous misfortune, and oft... ...end you a card, which sure was doing more than all the friendship and good-breeding in the world required; but, indeed, as I had met you in no public ... ...other ladies; but that now appeared to be rather owing to his perfect good-breeding, as she was then to 211 Henry Fielding be considered as the mistr... ...le in her as the bearing it was in Amelia a proof of the most perfect good breeding. 265 Henry Fielding Chapter ii Chapter ii Chapter ii Chapter ii C... ...hough, perhaps, she thought her impertinent enough, yet (such was her good breeding) she gave her many assurances of a curios- ity to know every incid...

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...imble sense of fitness, ineffable lightning-footed tact, comes of race and breeding, and she was sure Nevil was a man soon to feel the absence of that... ...e used to dress,’ she observed. The individual style of a naval officer of breeding, in which you see neatness trifling with disorder, or disorder plu... ...and it awakened a tenderness toward the simple speaker. Cecilia’s delicate breeding saved her from running on figu- 183 George Meredith ratively. She... ...n. In reality, grieved though she was on account of that Dr. Shrapnel, her captive heart resented the anticipated challenge to her to espouse his caus... ...on of conventional symmetry in the picture. None but a woman of consummate breeding dared have done as she did. It was not Southern suppleness that sa... ...indle him. Why did she refrain? It was that the conquered young lady was a captive, not an ally. To touch the subject in cold blood, voluntarily to la... ...ry sound idea of the value of money, and has actually made money by cattle breeding; but he has flung ten thousand pounds on a single building out- si...

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...and place? Not very victoriously, the most of us! A wise well-calcu- lated breeding of a young genial soul in this world, or alas of any young soul in... ...to every one of these coevals, is undoubtedly the most important branch of breeding for him. In this point, as the learned Huber has insisted,* the tw... ...ine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragile hectic body which quite forbids the adv...

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...se. 111 Charlotte M. Yonge With great censure of the Stympsons’ ill-breeding and dis- courtesy to her brother (which seemed to affect her far m... ... whose kindly sympathy and strength of will did not take them, as it were, captive. “Among those workmen you feel that he is a born king of men,” said... ...ces.” She had put away from herself the objection to the convict birth and breeding, by being willing to accept Eustace, to whom exactly the same obje...

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...the good man, ‘but that packing you off like that, among your inferiors in breeding and everything else, would put an end to all hope of your redeemin... ...by one of the old inferior stamp of clergy, scarcely superior in habits or breeding to the farmers, and only outliving the scandals of his youth to fa... ...her stepsons, and contrived to make another; but she must have been kept a captive until, during their absence at some Christmas con- vivialities, she...

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...turned to pay a visit of remembrance to their teachers. These, in- deed, come regularly, but the rest, so soon as their school- days are over, disappe... ... American whaler put into a bay upon that island, were attacked, and made their escape with diffi- culty, leaving their mate, a Mr. Whalon, in the han... ...d seeming sin- cerity. All evening A. sat and admired the man by the fire- light. He was six feet high, lean, with the appearance of many years, and a...

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...f the thing seemed to strike upon the touched person, notwithstanding good-breeding forbade his proposing the mystery, on the spot, as a subject of di... ... when, as with this old man, your evil days of decay come on, when a hoary captive in your chamber, then will you, something like the dungeoned Italia... ...the chief, reproached for his treachery by a proud hunter whom he had made captive, jeered out, “T reachery? pale face! ’T was they who broke their co...

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...s the rock to powder and sets the ore free. The iron in the ore is still captive. An outside influence smelts it free of the clogging ore. The iron... ... and rubbish into the pit till bottom was raised high enough to enable the captive to step out, was equipped with the reasoning quality. I conceive th... ... is to say, that whatever the needed thing might be, my nature, habit, and breeding moved me to attempt it in one way, while some immutable and unsusp...

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...h other, from Aunt Jane. Kunz sniffed, the Sofy hissed; but her claws were captive. The dog was the elder and more rational, and when set down again t... ...been sent to schools where they had associated with young people of gentle breeding, which perhaps their partly foreign extraction, and southern birth... ...n her eyelids and the cor- ners of her mouth, though kept in check by good breeding, and then smoothed out into a resolute complacency, which convince... ...t of the duty of a model wife. Both sisters were in request to enliven the captive, and Jane forebore to worry him with her own anxieties about the pr...