As this is so, I shall proceed to give an explanation of its principles, as a kind of code or mirror of knightly courtesy.

How curiously Christian courtesy and polished manners sometimes separate themselves!

'Tis like the harper's prelude on the strings, The prima donna's courtesy ere she sings; Prologues in metre are to other pros As worsted stockings are to engine-hose.

In the gallant attentions of a loving husband, the anxious eagerness to please is displaced by a pleasant sense of duty and gentlemanly courtesy.

That next afternoon, when Horace's first and last love met, they looked into each other's hearts and saw the same image there, while Mrs. Latham lay on the lounge in her room, raging within, that again her tongue had failed her in her own house, and realizing that, woman of the world as she aimed to be, the "egg woman" had rendered her helpless by mere force of homely courtesy.

Smiling you meet us,but not quite sincerely; Low-voiced you greet us,but this is the ton: This, we must feel it, is courtesy merely, Not the glad welcome of days that are gone.

More than one of the young nobles approached the presumably fair peripatetic, and, with courtesy commonly in inverse ratio to the amount of wine he was carrying home, proffered his escort to his gondola.

First ladies advance and stop; vis-à-vis gentlemen ditto; courtesy profoundly, bow, and back to places.