He thanked her
ceremoniously, bowed to her husband and rode away.
Instead therefore of communicating the secret of his lodgings to a servant, he acquainted the lady herself with it particularly, and soon after very
ceremoniously withdrew.
She measured a teacup full, tied it up in a bit of sacking, and presented it
ceremoniously to grandmother.
As we sat at a late breakfast in the hotel at Allerheiligen, next morning, these young people and took places near us without observing us; but presently they saw us and at once bowed and smiled; not
ceremoniously, but with the gratified look of people who have found acquaintances where they were expecting strangers.
Milady Clarik received D'Artagnan
ceremoniously. Her hotel was remarkably sumptuous, and while the most part of the English had quit, or were about to quit, France on account of the war, Milady had just been laying out much money upon her residence; which proved that the general measure which drove the English from France did not affect her.
But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day
ceremoniously informed Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience.
The clergyman
ceremoniously raised his hat, and walked on.
With each of them, as he entered, he
ceremoniously shook hands, both parties touching their bonnets at the same time in a military manner.
Mr Quilp accompanied this admission with such an awful wink, indicative of old rovings and backslidings, that Mrs Jiniwin was indignant, and could not forbear from remarking under her breath that he might at least put off his confessions until his wife was absent; for which act of boldness and insubordination Mr Quilp first stared her out of countenance and then drank her health
ceremoniously.
I have seen him so terrify a client or a witness by
ceremoniously unfolding this pocket-handkerchief as if he were immediately going to blow his nose, and then pausing, as if he knew he should not have time to do it before such client or witness committed himself, that the self-committal has followed directly, quite as a matter of course.
"I beg your pardon," said Bellegarde,
ceremoniously; "well-bred people always love their brothers."
He was taken on the shoulders of half a dozen blossom-faced men, who shuffled with him to the churchyard, and who were preceded by another blossom-faced man, affecting a stately stalk, as if he were a Policeman of the D(eath) Division, and
ceremoniously pretending not to know his intimate acquaintances, as he led the pageant.