And with this she dropped a stately curtsy, and, taking her candle, went away through the tapestry door which led to her apartments.

Curchie, curtsy.

As I was going up Pippen Hill, Pippen Hill was dirty, There I met a pretty miss, And she dropped me a curtsy.

The dame made a curtsy, The dog made a bow; The dame said, Your servant, The dog said; Bow, wow. RUNAWAY BROOK.

so may the fresh-coloured and cleanly nursery maid, who, by leave, airs her playful charge in your stately gardens, drop her prettiest blushing curtsy as ye pass, reductive of juvenescent emotion!

" The girl dimpled, and dropped him a little curtsy, half ironical and wholly graceful.

Submission N. submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience &c 743. surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown^. obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion^, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.

salute; embrace &c (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob^; move to, nod to; smile upon. uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.

salute; embrace &c (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob^; move to, nod to; smile upon. uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.

At the same time, Whether she knew enough of Breeding, as that if a Squire or a Gentleman, or one that was her Betters, should give her a civil Salute, she should curtsy and be humble, nevertheless.

Nay, I have often seen her rise up and smile and curtsy to one at the lower End of the Church in the midst of a Gloria Patri; and when I have spoke the Assent to a Prayer with a long Amen uttered with decent Gravity, she has been rolling her Eyes around about in such a Manner, as plainly shewed, however she was moved, it was not towards an Heavenly Object.

I noticed, as the village children went by her window, they all stopped to bow and curtsy.

These are your New Hampshire customs?" "'O Kate, nice customs curtsy to nice kings!'

Mammy Jane hobbled to her feet and bobbed a curtsy.

She placed her thumbnail against the tip of her nose; spread her fingers; and made him a curtsy.

She dropped him a curtsy which was grace itself, her dark eyes looking straight into his face.

[Illustration: She dropped him a curtsy.

Now, though she stood with face grave, pensive, almost melancholy, to give him curtsy as he passed, there was not weakness nor faltering in her mien or speech.

Silly boy!" said she, with her forefinger up; and then when I tried to lay hands on her again, she gave a little dainty curtsy, and was off into the house.

My mother stared, for she thought he was making fun of her; but Cousin Edie fell into it in an instant, as though it had been a game, and away she went in a great curtsy until I thought she would have had to give it up, and sit down right there in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Mingled feelings rise at sight of the soft brocade whose bodice once throbbed with the happy heartbeats of this Virginia maiden, making pretty curtsy in rosy pleasure, the admiration of the English Court.

" The lady swept a proud curtsy backward, bridled her beautiful neck, and signed for them to pass her.

He went farther; he called his other daughters, and bade them curtsy to the undertaker, and promise to be his friends; and so they proved, for both died consumptive in two years.

Nearly two years passed before Mazarin expressed a wish to see his ugly niece again; and it was indeed a very different Marie who now made her curtsy to him.

" She bobbed me a dainty curtsy, and I could only try and hide the pain which this last cruel stab had inflicted on my heart.