Deportment

Her deportment is excellent as are her mental powers, and her desire for knowledge is an incentive to all in the school. ❋ Unknown (1955)

You like to be prim and neat, and to be good in deportment and ahead in your studies. ❋ Unknown (1902)

We sanctify God before others when our deportment is such as invites and encourages others to glorify and honour him; both are required, Lev. x. ❋ Unknown (1721)

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. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles, any coldness or imbecility, or, in short, any want of that large, flowing, and magnanimous deportment, which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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. ❋ Unknown (1839)

Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

As to my kindergarten teachers, Ms. Bave and Mrs. O'Leary, I remember two not-so-sweet old ladies who fussed a bit with my "deportment" and both, born about the time of Lincoln's assassination -- they were both in their 80's -- are lost in the mist of the past. ❋ Joel Shatzky (2010)

It must be confessed, Mr. Abernethy, although a gentleman in appearance, manner, and education, sometimes wanted that courtesy and worldly deportment which is considered so essential to the medical practitioner. ❋ Various (N/A)

Men may amuse themselves with a noisy, loud-laughing, loquacious girl; it is the quiet, subdued, modest, and seeming bashful deportment which is the one that stands the fairest chance of carrying off their hearts. ❋ Horace Wyndham (N/A)

They were not allowed to learn dancing; they had no outdoor games at all, not even croquet -- nothing whatever to exhilarate them and develop them physically except an hour's "deportment," the very mildest kind of calisthenics, in the big class-room once a fortnight, and the daily making of their little beds. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)

His knock was answered by a gray-haired man, with the gravity of deportment which is peculiar to lawyers, undertakers and footmen. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)

The Princess Charlotte had learned many things alien to her nature; but she had never learned that correctitude of deportment which is supposed to accompany all those born in the regal purple from the cradle to the grave. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)

He has time to be interested in his "deportment," his letter-writing, his executive work, and his organising ability and his hope of promotion to a soap factory. ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)

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. ❋ John Cann Bailey (1897)

There is the most exquisite propriety and good fellowship, with an utter absence of "deportment;" and the perennials that pass out of flower are kindly hid and merged by their blooming neighbors, till their time of glory comes round again. ❋ Unknown (1872)

Not much is taught but "deportment," and some of the old suckers are perfect ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)