The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment of a lady?. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
You like to be prim and neat, and to be good in deportment and ahead in your studies. From Wordnik.com. [Part I] Reference
Her deportment is excellent as are her mental powers, and her desire for knowledge is an incentive to all in the school. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage] Reference
Those are truly honourable, and those only, in place of power and trust, who make conscience of their duty, and whose deportment is agreeable to their preferment. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Not thus uniform and quiet in their deportment were the human creatures assembled at Waynesville, but, on the contrary, variety and noise were their prevailing characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.] Reference
Not much is taught but "deportment," and some of the old suckers are perfect. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
She had undoubtedly sense enough to know what kind of deportment suited her high station, and self-command enough to maintain that deportment invariably. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
So we may trace the gradual diminution, but never the entire disappearance, of the excessive "deportment" which is the best known feature of Johnson's style. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference
Heads of families observed his exemplary deportment. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I believe they bear a close relation to ladylike deportment. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
After viewing with anxiety the wild deportment of poor Mary's husband. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
A true lady will avoid familiarity in her deportment towards gentlemen. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"You don't know what models of deportment we've been since we came here.". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
Let him show, out of his good deportment, his works in meekness of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
His deportment as her slave when near her was not long a mere bit of acting. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His conduct and deportment toward us characterized him as a friend and gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"You'll get a lesson in deportment; you'll get a lesson in class," said Cuomo the First. From Wordnik.com. [Privileges of the House] Reference
In his person Euripides was noble and majestic, and in his deportment grave and serious. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Your Creator says that your deportment toward them must be that of reverence and affection. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
In their common deportment towards each other they are respectful, peaceable, and inoffensive. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Charmed, no doubt, with so engaging a deportment, the men behave to them in a reciprocal manner. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Their deportment was insolent and self-sufficient; their eyes were disdainful and all-conquering. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There are even some excellences of deportment which would not suit another whose character is different. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Wherever they associate together, that association produces softer manners and a more engaging deportment. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
And these things never unfavorably affected her life and manners, for she was as prudent in her deportment. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
He said that he had noticed "changes" in Andrea's deportment even before she began having children in 1994. From Wordnik.com. [Motherhood And Murder] Reference
Both of these red-eared, red-trousered dispensers of harmony are perfect in deportment, and as quiet as mice. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
He has since become a model of pre-race deportment and will face Zenyatta for the first time in the 2010 Classic. From Wordnik.com. [Liz O'Connell: Racing Superstars Readying for $25.5 Million in Breeders' Cup Purses] Reference
She entered on that defence before she spoke a word; for she attacked the prejudices of the court, by deportment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
From his gentlemanly deportment and ability he was on familiar terms with the officers, and popular among the men. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
I was a constant eyewitness of the sorrows which so sobered the impetuous deportment of the light-hearted Mary Stanley. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
To the people it is a necessary curb, and to us it accords with a certain rank, a certain society, a certain deportment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Col. Willis had been watching him for several days and was totally unable to make out from his deportment what he was looking for. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
On all occasions his deportment is quiet, and whether moved by joy or anger, no loud language or boisterous laughter is ever heard. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Northern States; but we have never seen more thorough work, never a school on the whole more satisfactory in deportment and scholarship. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896] Reference
Their deportment is rather grave and reserved; and, on the whole, they have much more of the prude than the coquette in their composition. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
But they do represent encouraging signs of increasing confidence, maturity and a sense of responsibility in China's deportment on the international stage. From Wordnik.com. [Beijing's New Internationalism] Reference
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