"After the above scurvy treatment I was naturally anxious to witness the man's funeral, which I understood was to be a gorgeous affair, six respectably-attired females having been sworn in to kiss the body, amid the hysteric weeps of three more in the background.

(his will leaving her 5000l., on condition that she should not marry an Englishman, is here explained and justified), she might, and may, marry very respectably.

She had dark hair, a low forehead, and a broad face, and was very respectably dressed.

Thomas Lodge, in his "Alarum against Usurers," 1584, speaks of his "birth," and of "the offspring from whence he came," as if he were at least respectably descended; and on the authority of Anthony Wood, it has been asserted by all subsequent biographers that he was of a Lincolnshire family.

In the days when burglary was punished with death, there was very seldom any remission, I was in court one day at Guildford, when a respectably-dressed man in a velveteen suit of a yellowy green colour and pearl buttons came up to me.

Very respectably dressed in dark clothes and overcoat.

The services are simple and hearty, and whilst there may be a little plaintive noisiness now and then in thema few penitent flutteringsthey are generally, and remembering the complexion of the congregation, respectably conducted.

The girl is respectably married.

" The male speaker was a young man, respectably dressed and seated at a table, having a book before him.

Thus, that numerous and respectably body of Christians called Episcopalians have been told, and repeatedly told, that the more numerous denomination were seeking to deprive them of their just and equal rights, and to subject them to the tyranny of an overbearing majorityThese tales were reiterated till their authors found them useless from their folly and falsehood.

How does this seem to you, young ladies, and what do you think of their upstairs life together, you who calculate, if you calculate at all, whether five hundred dollars may carry you respectably through your half-dozen city assemblies, where you shine in silk and gossamer, of which there will not be "a dress in the room that cost less than seventy-five dollars," and come home, after the dance, "a perfect rag"?

I had come to feeling that I know most of the respectably dressed people whom I met in the cars, and had been in contact with them at some time or other.

There was nothing offensive nor flirtatious in his manner, and he seemed far too respectably dressed to be a beggar.

She had every faculty for learning, and no real dislike to it; but this unlucky Fairy gift was in the way of every thing she did, for it took away her interest in every thing but herself; and so, though she got through her lessons respectably, it was with many yawns, and not a few sighs, and wonderings what Mamma was doing; and did the Governess think there would soon be another dinner party?

We also visited the Cabinet of Natural History, which is open twice a week "to all respectably dressed persons," as the notice at the door says.

In fact, it answers very respectably, especially when we consider that perfection of definition is thrown away on composites.

He had graduated from the Newbern High School, respectably if not with distinguished honour, and the superintendent had said, in conferring his rolled and neatly tied diploma, that he was facing the battle of life and must acquit himself with credit to Newbern.

His parents had no leisure to bestow on intellectual culture; for they had a numerous family of children, and it required about all their time to feed and clothe them respectably.

"Not at all, miss," he cried ferociously; "you are here to look after this house, not to be preparing for another, and until you are respectably bespoken by some rash crittur of a man, into the drawers with your linen and down with those murderous shears."

Could Florence be brought to accede to his wishes, he thought that he might still live happily, respectably, and in such a manner that his name might go down to posterity not altogether blasted.

Yet it is a curious thing that whereas our people only got the power to legislate by democratic assemblies freely and completely from the year 1776, in hardly more than a hundred years after their conscious possession of that power we find a respectably strong popular movement attempting to reverse it, or, at least, to limit its field.

" Nothing, however, was heard by the police or by ourselves for the next three or four days; and thenI think it was the fourth day after the inquestI looked up from my desk in Mr. Lindsey's outer office one afternoon to see Maisie Dunlop coming in at the door, followed by an elderly woman, poorly but respectably dressed, a stranger.

" Mr. Benjamin H. Ellicott, who was a true friend of Banneker, and collected from various sources all the facts concerning him, wrote in a letter as follows: "During the whole of his long life he lived respectably and much esteemed by all who became acquainted with him, but more especially by those who could fully appreciate his genius and the extent of his acquirements.

It is just because Tennyson was so fearfully, respectably Early Victorian!

This has gone out of good use, though in such compounded words as begotten and misbegotten it persists respectably.