The "curtsey" -- or "courtesy" -- is a feature of the minuet, and revived with the old-fashioned dance. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
She made a kind of curtsey and began to speak, but no sooner did she see his face than she held her tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Just as Mrs Jenkins was making a kind of curtsey by the bedside Gladys said that she saw Mr Prothero riding up to the house. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
‘As you please, young gentleman,’ said the landlady, and then, making a kind of curtsey, she again retired to the side apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
Elfrida's little curtsey was not at all the right kind of curtsey, but it had to do. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Arden] Reference
"As you please, young gentleman," said the landlady, and then making a kind of curtsey, she again retired to the side apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
'As you please, young gentleman,' said the landlady, and then, making a kind of curtsey, she again retired to the side apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
A woman sitting by the bed rose and dropped a curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
And Lily withdrew with a half-curtsey and a pretty smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
As she dropped the judge a curtsey, and he made her a bow. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Mrs. Connolly, who is doing her best curtsey in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"'K you!" said Lily, greatly flattered, with a stage curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
"Just so, my lady," composedly, and with another deep curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
She stood up and dropped her curtsey out of habit, but sullenly. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
And all the fairies curtsey very long and low, and they answer her. From Wordnik.com. [The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book] Reference
She put on some bandages, made a little timid curtsey and went out. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
"Mr. Chia Cheng is not in his study," Chou Jui laughed, with a curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But she made a low curtsey to the Mother Superior and returned no answer. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Clara gave a stiff little curtsey and held up her cheek primly to be kissed. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
She lowered to a mock curtsey, mouth skewed to control laughter, arms akimbo. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Hsüeh P'an hastily made a salutation and a curtsey, and confessed his fault. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
When Beth's turn came, she made an awkward curtsey in imitation of the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
I made my very best curtsey and she acknowledged it a little absent - mindedly. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
He smiled at the little Flower Girl, who smiled in return and made him a curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [Sandman's Goodnight Stories] Reference
She comes to the door without a cane and greets her guests with accustomed curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
"Yes, my lady," with a curtsey so low that one wonders how she ever comes up again. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"Everything's quite ready, ma'am, as the gentleman ordered," she said, with a curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
"I would fling the purse at your feet, and make you a very polite curtsey," said Rose. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
You should have seen the polite bow of the admiral, and the delightful curtsey of the lady. From Wordnik.com. [Comical People] Reference
"Thanks; why don't you say monkeys while you are about it?" replied my aunt with a curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
“I will see if the horse is ready,” said she, as she dropped a curtsey and quitted the room. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Then she went to meet the old lady, giving a quaint little curtsey and waiting for her to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Gap in the Fence] Reference
Then, remembering that two of the ladies were strangers, she made an old-fashioned little curtsey. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
Loveday advanced a step and dropped her curtsey, but not a word could she say to explain her visit. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
Momsey had started to make him a demure curtsey when Nan's clear laugh interrupted the tête-à-tête. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
I think it does them good just to have me walk through the quarters four times a day -- they always curtsey and say a word. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
Stopping short with a curtsey at the conclusion and disjoining hands, they stand, and imitating the process of hand-washing, they sing. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
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