amenities, civility, decorum, elegancies, gallantry, kingliness, manners, point of etiquette, princeliness, quiet good manners, social code, solemnity
Last update: September 3, 2015
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Before his time instrumental music was chiefly written for the Paradiesensaal, and its melody often sacrificed vitality of idea to a ceremonial courtliness of phrase. [Please select]
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And the kindliness and the courtliness of that bow made them very happy. [Please select]
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He greeted the ladies with courtliness, and inquired mout anybody be sick. [Please select]
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He took her hand and kissed it with a certain courtliness and reverent fervour. [Please select]
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"Never better, sire," said the man, bowing with more courtliness than his profession indicated. [Please select]
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There was an old world courtliness in the Baron's bow and murmured salutation. [Please select]
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Bertrand's manner--half-sneering, half-openly brutal--had taken on a new courtliness towards a boy fifty years his junior. [Please select]
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Then ruthlessly laying aside the last vestige of his assumed courtliness, he picked up his stick from the table, leaned far over, shook it in Hugh's face, and became an irascible, shouting old man. [Please select]
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He moving up with pliant courtliness, Greeted Geraint full face, but stealthily, In the mid-warmth of welcome and graspt hand, Found Enid with the corner of his eye, And knew her sitting sad and solitary. [Please select]
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