They all rose on my entrance, curtsied respectfully, and then resumed their seats and employment.

When at the top she turned, smiled, and curtsied.

Thou wilt receive him with friendship, for the love thou bearest his father?" Donna Violetta curtsied, but it was with womanly reserve.

The foreigner was attracted by the sound, and after a moment's hesitation, she respectfully curtsied.

In short, such is the waywardness of our feelings, and so difficult is it to be always sorrowful as well as always happy, that the well-satisfied landlady, who had, in truth, received the full value of a very indifferent fare, was ready to affirm, as she curtsied her thanks on the dirty threshold, that a merrier party had never left her door.

Surely you must have heard of Judge Pyncheon?" Phoebe curtsied, and the judge bent forward to bestow a kiss on his young relative.

" But at Valencia's coming the children all looked round, and jumped up and curtsied, and then were afraid to sit down again.

" Grace curtsied, blushed, and shook all over.

I never came in Publick but I saluted them, tho in great Assemblies, all round, where it was seen how genteelly I avoided hampering my Spurs in their Petticoats, while I moved amongst them; and on the other side how prettily they curtsied and received me, standing in proper Rows, and advancing as fast as they saw their Elders, or their Betters, dispatch'd by me.

and am I to suppose The power of poison in such looks as those?' She spoke, and pointing to the mirror, cast A pleased gay glance, and curtsied as she pass'd.

And then I curtsied and left her; and my lord, when he heard of it, got a new piper.

A little way off another group of sparrows had gathered with greedy joy around some fragments of bread that had been scattered abroad by the benevolent Templars, and hard by a more sentimentally-minded pigeon, unmindful of the crumbs and the marauding sparrows, puffed out his breast and strutted and curtsied before his mate with endearing gurgles.

She rose and curtsied as the doctor entered and dropped into a willow rocking-chair near her own.

" William returned in a few moments with a fat, comfortable looking black woman, who curtsied to Mrs. Carteret at the gate, and then going up to her mistress seized her by the shoulder and shook her vigorously.

I observed all the negroes looking at me with solicitude, like those who recognised my right to feel the blow the deepest, It was a touching evidence of respectful interest that each man bowed to me reverently, and each woman curtsied, as he or she left the room.

Madame de Maintenon rose with a pleasant smile and curtsied deeply, but there was no answering light upon her visitor's face, and he threw himself down upon the vacant arm-chair with a pouting lip and a frown upon his forehead.

" She curtsied low, with her face set in a mocking smile.

" Marya rose and curtsied; then she took from her pocket a folded paper, and handed it to her protectress, who read it over.

As he entered the Queen-mother rose and curtsied profoundly, while the ladies and gentlemen of her household imitated her example, as they retired a pace or two behind her.

Obedient tenants bowed and curtsied as we went to church, and we drove to visit our neighbours in the great family coach.

As the carriage went by at a walk, the woman of the house came to the door and curtsied.

She rose and curtsied low, perhaps to hide the tell-tale pleasure in her eyes.

Drying her eyes, she curtsied to the vice-governatore and the podestà and then answered the question.

She was presiding over seams and button-holes the next afternoon at school, when the mother and daughter walked in; and the whole troop started to their feet and curtsied. 'Don't make them stand!

Thus summoned, Mademoiselle Marie emerged from between the two young women, and curtsied demurely.