Colonel W-, is a great man in these parts Like most village nabobs, he's a corpulent gentleman with a great show of dignity, and in a white vest and gold-headed cane, looks eminently respectable.

The mansion in which he dwelt was, though old-fashioned, imposing in its aspect, and upon a scale unequivocally aristocratic; its walls were hung with ancestral portraits, and he managed to maintain about him a large and tolerably respectable staff of servants.

We happened to enter a church while the young Robespierre was haranguing to an audience, very little respectable either in numbers or appearance.

The number of vehicles employed is quite extraordinary, those of the merely respectable classes being chiefly bullock-carts; these are of various descriptions, the greater number being of an oblong square, and furnished with seats across (after the fashion of our taxed carts), in which twelve persons, including women and children, are frequently accommodated.

The Church edifice, as we have seen, was decidedly respectable, both in size and character.

" "Then," said Jervis, "you are actually a local G.P. I thought you were looking beastly respectable.

After it's over I'll go around the corner and steal what pennies I can find in Blind Simon's cup, just to make me feel comparatively respectable and decent again.

Among the statesmen of his day he appears not only intellectually superior, but conventionally respectable,a fact which would seem to be established by the bare statement, that he died wretchedly poor, while most of them died enormously rich.

This vast and intolerable medium of dulness, which penetrates our lives like a thick, dark mist, allowing us only to see the object in range of our immediate vision, hostile to all originality, crushingly respectable, that dictates our hours, our occupations, our amusements, our emotions, our religion, is the most ruthless and tyrannical thing in the world.

Both country girls, born in a humble, though defiantly respectable, stratum of society, the ways of the two sisters had already parted in childhood.

He will admire the romance and fantasy of the most determinedly respectable and commonplace people in the world.

Marmontel gives the following description of the habitués of her salon and of the desire that pervaded all to show their wit: "L'auditoire était respectable.

Only by being extraordinarily respectable and dignified can we live down the memory of his father's unconventional behaviour.

As such did he view them allfrom the ornately garbed young man who came among us purveying windmills to the portly, broadclothed, gray-whiskered and forbiddingly respectable colporteur of the American Bible Society.

They are grossly respectable in the Soudan now.

One may take one's choice of all characters in this romantic state of uncertainty as to one's real pretensions, and become indefinitely respectable and negatively rightworshipful.

You are so infernally respectable in everything you do!

Here you are safe and sound with your friend Mrs. Burton by 9 o'clock, an intensely respectable hour even in Coombe.

It has now donned the outwardly respectable look of middle age; it has laid itself out in streets; the gambling dens have disappeared, and the robbers have betaken themselves to the sale of the worst class of Japanese and Indian "curios," ostrich feathers from East Africa, and tobacco in all its forms.

He accepted our request with perfect composure, and by the time we had succeeded in making ourselves passably respectable he presented us with a menu that deserved to be set to music.

But because he was personally respectable, and because he held a middle course between contemporary parties, he has found favour with historians, who are too apt to forget that there is in politics, as in other things, a right course and a wrong, and that to attempt to walk along both at once proves a man to be a weak statesman, and does not prove him to be a great or good man.

I can see that figure nowpallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn!

Now that she would never have a son, she was of no use, and it galled him that he could find no plausibly respectable excuse for casting her off, as he cast off worn-out servants in his business.

A busier life or a more pleasantly respectable can hardly be found in the history of men, nor yet a more truly musical.

The sarcasms which Mr. Choate vents against the Anti-slavery sentiment of the country are so old as to be positively respectable,we wish we could say that their vivacity increased with their years,and as for his graver indictments, there never was anything so ancient, unless it be an American lad of eighteen.