Happy possessor of a tolerably decent horse and victoria, he considers himself above the conventionalities of dress, and thus may be seen in the skull-cap, waist-coat, long white shirt and trousers which constitute his shop or business-attire, attended not infrequently by little miniatures of himself in similar garb.

Town parties and town conventionalities had little in them to gain favour in the eyes of this bonnie free country lass.

Others portrayed him without the conventionalities of clothing, and his wife in evening dress.

Most people probably thought him a nuisance, since he was always about with his questions, puzzling some, confuting others, and reproving all,careless of love or hatred, and contemptuous of all conventionalities.

She was thinking of wearing mourning, but her husband staked her to the price of a new spring suit and she said that conventionalities could go hang, as she had a shape and was going to show it.

I don't like this hotel, one has to keep so many conventionalities.

Such foolish conventionalities were not in vogue on the Saranac; this was before Steve took to guiding.

Oh, I'm not standing on conventionalities now!

How easy for such a man to think that he has a right not to be as other men are; to despise little conventionalities, courtesies, even decencies; to offend boldly and carelessly, conscious that he has something right and valuable within himself which not only atones for such defects, but allows him to indulge in them, as badges of his own superiority!

All great poets, till Shelley and Byron, as far as we can discern, have been men especially free from eccentricities; careful not merely of the chivalries and the respectabilities, but also of the courtesies and the petty conventionalities, of the age in which they lived; altogether well-bred men of the world.

" The small servant, who was not so well acquainted with theatrical conventionalities as Mr. Swiveller, was rather alarmed by his manner, and showed it so plainly that he felt it necessary to discharge his brigand bearing for one more suitable to private life.

The great Past supplies us with the raw material, with orders, colonnades and arcades, pediments, consoles, cornices, friezes and architraves, buttresses, battlements, vaults, pinnacles, arches, lintels, rustications, balustrades, piers, pilasters, trefoils, and all the innumerable conventionalities of architecture.

I could not wonder; for, of all cruel conventionalities, visits and letters of condolence seem to me the most cruel.

was the sole word that met my entering in; then followed two small acts, supposed to be conventionalities.

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses'" ("Addresses"?

Perhaps they were not much more delightful to Mrs. Pallinson; but that worthy matron had a profound veneration for the conventionalities of life, and these classical matinées and recitals seemed to her exactly the correct sort of thing for the amusement of a young widow whose husband had not very long ago been consigned to the tomb.

All the conventionalities of his old school, which hung very thick about him even to the end of his Cheltenham life, seem suddenly to drop off, and leave him, without a trace remaining on his mind, in the full use and delight of his new liberty.

Even ghosts have regard for conventionalities.

We are no longer dependent upon prejudices, conventionalities, and forms.

Little acts of this kind, equally or more amusing, are not mere gestures or conventionalities.

You don't understand the inner man which rules me,how it has struggled to free itself from conventionalities.

There had been an actual pleasure to him in thus showing himself to be superior to the conventionalities of the world.

"Or rather, in seeking my duty, I look beyond the conventionalities of the world.

For the conventionalities of the law he entertained a supreme contempt, but he did wish so to arrange matters with which he was himself concerned as to do what justice demanded.

All audacity of thought and expression has been stamped out, and the conventionalities are rigorously respected.