By the way, the Doctor is the only one of my acquaintance who bows gracefully,my town acquaintance, I mean.

Shaving over, he has to brush the hair, beard, and moustache, where that appendage is encouraged, arranging the whole simply and gracefully, according to the age and style of countenance.

"The Viscount of Toarz saw how the Duke bore himself in arms and said to his people that were around him: 'Never have I seen a man so fairly armed, nor one who rode so gallantly, or bore his arms or became his hauberk so well; neither any one who bore his lance so gracefully or sat his horse and managed him so nobly.

Their dress consisted of a large blanket, wrapped gracefully round the waist, and confined by a belt, so as to leave the bust and arms bare; and so perfect and muscular were their figures, that they had the appearance of noble bronze statues.

Certain acts and changes, the initiative to which would come most gracefully from royalty itself, could be done at this present time.

Gracefully she introduced the others to Ada and Ruth who surveyed them indifferently.

He bowed gracefully to the padre's group, but halted beside the players.

The antiquarian spirit, strong in you, and gracefully blending ever with the religious, may have been sown in you among those wrecks of splendid mortality.

There was a restlessness and varying of color, in the ordinarily placid Clara, which prevented a display of her usual manner; while Jane walked gracefully, and with a tincture of her mother's manner, by her side.

He possessed the happy faculty of giving an interest to all he advanced, whether true or not; and as he never contradicted, or even opposed unless to yield gracefully, when a lady was his opponent, his conversation insensibly attracted, by putting the sex in good humor with themselves.

" The colonel bowed gracefully, and the dowager dropped a hasty courtesy at the commencement of the speech; but lower bend followed the closing remark, and a glance of the eye was thrown in quest of her daughters, as if she instinctively wished to bring them into what the sailors term "the line of battle.

"He very han'som beaver-dam," said Nick, sweeping his hand gracefully over the view; "bye 'nd

You know what she is!" Mrs. Coombe sank gracefully into a veranda chair.

How gracefully she waves her head in the fine recover from the withdrawing curtsy, and beautifully extends her hand to the bald-pated individual grinning to her on the rug!

" "It is very good of you," I said; whereupon he bowed as gracefully as a man may who is propped up in bed with a heap of pillows; and having thus exchanged broadsides of civility, so to speak, weor, at least, Iproceeded to business.

" "Most people are," said I. "True; but you can take a cropper more gracefully at twenty than at fifty-five.

Although not quite ready to assert ability to ride hour after hour like a mounted policeman, you feel certain that you could ride as gracefully as he, and perhaps you are right, for official position does not confer wisdom in equitation.

Running about among the ilex-groves in search of bright mosses, she would come suddenly in front of an elegant villa, with garlands in stucco, and balconies gracefully draped with vines.

She courtesied her acknowledgments gracefully.

"How gracefully the glossy folds of Mamita's gray dress fall over Rosa's crimson merino.

It was familiar to her son; but he listened to it with quickened interest, while he gazed at the beautiful opera-singer winding about so gracefully in the evolutions of the dance.

" He took her arm within his, and as they made their way through the crowd she bowed gracefully to the right and left, in answer to the lamentations occasioned by her departure.

She had a smile, a welcome, and a compliment for each,not seemingly studied, but gracefully expressed, and sufficient to put the guests in the best humor.

He unlocks maidenheads with his language, and speaks Euphues, not so gracefully as heartily.

Hints of an unbounded fancy, playing gracefully in the excess of its strength, with the vastest images, as in that robe of the Scottish Muse, in which Deep lights and shades, bold mingling, threw A lustre grand, And seem'd to my astonished view A well-known land.