This reserve compelled Miss Ring to advance a step or two, when Eve was obliged to stop Curtsying to her partner, she thanked him for his attention, relinquished his arm, and turned to meet the lady.

Eve was a little in advance, but, with a half- concealed smile, she gave way to Grace, curtsying gravely, and saying "It does not become me to precede Lady TemplemoreI, who am only Mrs. Paul Effingham.

" "Signora, you are welcome," returned the gentle girl, curtsying low, and still leading the way deeper within the vast edifice.

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

As we stood for a minute, waiting for Mr. Kenge, a curious little old woman, Miss Flite, in a squeezed bonnet, and carrying a reticule, came curtsying and smiling up to us, with an air of great ceremony.

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

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.

The telegraph posts seemed to be posted to present arms (shall I say?) as I passed, and the lines of conductors were constantly stooping and curtsying to 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.

" "So I've heard, when curtsying was in fashion; but that is out of date, together with a good many other nice things,caring for one's friends, for instance.

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.

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.

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.

And then, curtsying low, she sailed on, leaving her lover in anything but a happy state of mind.

Returning to his parish after his autumn holiday, and noticing a woman at her cottage door with a baby in her arms, he asked, "Has that child been baptised?" "Well, sir," replied the curtsying mother, "I shouldn't like to say as much as that; but your young man came and did what he could.

As he passed through the bowing and curtsying crowd, the Emperor caught sight of his former hostess.

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

May I ask if you are Major Hardy's daughter?" Her cheeks burning, she murmured "Yes," curtsying to his rather stately bow.

An ample black woman, aproned and turbaned, looked at me through the steam of many kettles, turned and cuffed the lad at the spit, dealt a few buffets among the scullions, and waddled up to me, bobbing and curtsying.

I have seen birds courting in the stately figures of the minuet, crossing over and back, bowing and curtsying, in a dignified manner.

The next day both the Tabbies were curtsying in the hall when we started out.

"'Why, Mr. Lipton,' she said, curtsying, 'Jimmie looks so respectable, thanks to you, sir, that I thought I would send him around town today to see if he couldn't get a better job.'" "Good morning, ma'am," began the temperance worker.

La belle Barbérie reddened to her forehead, seemed disposed to condemn the liberty, frowned, smiled, and curtsying in confusion, withdrew.