Two hours later the family received a formal intimation of Camille's deed and state from the Minister of War, and on the following day all the journals were praising Captain Sauvallier, son of the respected founder, of Grenelle.

Col. FISK, assisted by twelve secretaries, is said to be actively engaged in drawing up a formal Declaration.

It was at supperdinner, in Lichfield, when not a formal entertainment, is eaten at two in the afternoonthat he fell a-speculating as to whether Her eyes, after all, could be fitly described as purple.

To the front of the mansion lies a close-shaven lawn, dotted with sundry oaks and maples; and thence, the formal gardens descend in six broad terraces.

In the morning the commandant of cadets, as commanding officer of the squadron, would go ashore with his aide and pay a formal call to the senior military officer.

In his home life he was not formal in his manner.

For example, we have been speaking with colloquial freedom, sprinkling our discourse with shouldn't and won't; suddenly we become formal and say should not and will not.

Even after you have desisted from formal paraphrasing, you should cling to the habit, formed at this time, of observing any notable felicities in whatever you read and of comparing them with the expression you yourself would likely have employed.

Your task is to bring them into class two and thence into class onethat is, to introduce them into your more formal speech, and from this gradually into your everyday speech.

We shall not attempt formal, water-tight, or exhaustive definitions; our purpose is to convey, in the simplest and most human manner possible, brief general explanations of what the words stand for. <

Fraternal is used less personally and intimately; it normally betokens that the relations are at least in part formal (as relations within societies).

But the formal business manner of Mr. Mattingford to his chief's wife seemed to her friendly and cordial compared with the strained greetings she received from her husband.

Inspector Seldon gave formal evidence of the discovery of the body of Sir Horace Fewbanks on the 19th of August.

I lacked the touch of the literary diner-out; and I had, as the reader will probably find to his cost, the classical tradition which makes all the persons in a novel, except the comically vernacular ones, or the speakers of phonetically spelt dialect, utter themselves in the formal phrases and studied syntax of eighteenth century rhetoric.

It made a tremendous impression on him, not only in itself, but as a vivid contrast between the formal, rattling-of-dry-bones sermon and the live, vital discourse that takes hold of a man's mind and heart and compels him to go out in the world and do things for the good of his fellow men.

I also received a formal invitation to attend other meetings about to be held, which I felt under the necessity of declining, from a belief that I could not participate in the discussions of the meetings with advantage to the cause which we all had at heart, and from the fact that previous to receiving the invitation I had made other arrangements which would occupy most of my time.

And when false flowers of rhetoric thou wouldst cull, Trust nature, do not labour to be dull; But write thy best, and top; and, in each line, Sir Formal's oratory will be thine: Sir Formal, though unsought, attends thy quill, And does thy northern dedications fill.

And when false flowers of rhetoric thou wouldst cull, Trust nature, do not labour to be dull; But write thy best, and top; and, in each line, Sir Formal's oratory will be thine: Sir Formal, though unsought, attends thy quill, And does thy northern dedications fill.

[Footnote 157: 'Formal:' a character in 'The Virtuoso.']

England, as the spirit of liberty gained ground, the very name and idea of personal servitude, without any formal interposition of the legislature to prohibit it, was totally banished."

And this omission constitutes the whole formal difference between the indicative and the subjunctive mood.

CRANE, WILLIAM G Wit and rhetoric in the Renaissance; the formal basis of Elizabethan prose style.

They had not known each other very well, but each had wondered what the others were like upon less formal occasions.

And suddenly a decidedly less formal occasion had been precipitated into their midst.

Possibly the effect of a summer of out-door, home merrymaking, under the least conventional of conditions, had been to make formal entertaining under a roof seem more than ordinarily fatiguing and pointless.