She was a sprightly young woman, very smart and merry and
decorously voluptuous, and of that fascinating prettiness that wins the hearts of boys and storms the footlights.
"Nay, my lord, craving your pardon, but we are accustomed to have grace before meat," said Robin
decorously. "And as our own chaplain is not with us to-day, will you be good enough to say it for us?"
Once in a while I make a good joke, as you have heard, and then I permit my daughters to laugh
decorously; but they are never allowed to make a joke themselves."
The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk
decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.
In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more
decorously, little Pearl paused gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb.
I am witness that that ceremony is faithfully observed by both parties - and most gravely and
decorously, too.
"You are the only one," resumed Gringoire, "who has listened to the piece
decorously. What do you think of it?"
But there was the
decorously grave, though unmoved physician, seeking only to mitigate the last pangs of the patient whom he could not save.
Astley, as usual, remained in the background, and gazed calmly and
decorously at the scene.
The strange, rich flowers of Eden on her head; the complexion, so much deeper and more brilliant than those of our native beauties; the foreign, as it seemed, and fantastic garb, yet not too fantastic to be worn
decorously in the street; the delicately-wrought embroidery of the skirt; the broad gold chain about her neck; the curious ring upon her finger; the fan, so exquisitely sculptured in open work, and painted to resemble pearl and ebony;--where could Drowne, in his sober walk of life, have beheld the vision here so matchlessly embodied!
Everything was done most
decorously, to the considerable surprise of the intruders.
An unresisting victim is not a pleasant thing; whether the murder is done
decorously in the drawing- room, or brutally on the highway, there should be a struggle to give some plausible excuse for taking a life.
