Dressed in shore-togs, a white starched shirt, black jacket, and round hat, as I took him once to see Dona Rita, he was extremely
presentable. He could make himself interesting by a tactful and rugged reserve set off by a grim, almost imperceptible, playfulness of tone and manner.
When they were all quite
presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.
When I met him afterwards, for the first time for many years, I found to my astonishment that he, who had been a quite tolerably
presentable young man, had actually managed by sheer scorn to alter his personal appearance until he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxford and all its traditions.
The particular impression I had received proved in the morning light, I repeat, not quite successfully
presentable to Mrs.
He answered, - 'No, I'll defer it this year a little longer.' He wrote again to Linton, expressing his great desire to see him; and, had the invalid been
presentable, I've no doubt his father would have permitted him to come.
Certainly, on the outside, as Miss Cornelia said, Owen Ford was a very
presentable fellow.
Honeychurch made Lucy and her Fiasco come to a little garden-party in the neighbourhood, for naturally she wanted to show people that her daughter was marrying a
presentable man.
Her shining copper sheathing, her galvanised iron-work, her deck, white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby in making her
presentable. Her two masts leaned a trifle backward; she carried brigantine, foresail, storm-jib, and standing-jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind; and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot-boat races.
Yet, in spite of my experience of his free way of handling them, I did not quite see, I confess, how he could have obviated all the difficulties in the way of rendering them
presentable to children.
He felt that he no longer looked
presentable, and feared that if he were now to approach the gentlemen-in-waiting in that plight he would not be admitted to the Emperor.
The boy's intent gaze caused the Tin Woodman to remember that he was not in the most
presentable condition, so he begged his friends to excuse him while he retired to his private apartment and allowed his servants to polish him.
"The shorthand writers and reporters put his evidence into
presentable language before they printed it.