The eyebrows offered a gesture urbane and sceptical.

Among her noblest children his native city will cherish him, and gratefully recall the unbending Puritan soul that dwelt in a form so gracious and urbane.

The most urbane and graceful of princes may be inflexible tyrants so far as government is concerned, like Augustus and Louis XIV.

But in his urbane tone there was a chill tranquillity that astonished and vaguely disappointed her.

It is in this part that I best remember him; tall, slender, with a not ungraceful stoop; looking quite like a refined gentleman, and quite like an urbane adventurer; smiling with an engaging ambiguity; cocking at you one peaked eyebrow with a great appearance of finesse; speaking low and sweet and thick, with a touch of burr; telling strange tales with singular deliberation and, to a patient listener, excellent effect.

I take it that Niccolò Martelli sent some poems on the subject from Florence, for Michelangelo replied upon the 20th of January 1542 in the following letter of singular modesty and urbane kindness: "I received from Messer Vincenzo Perini your letter with two sonnets and a madrigal.

There were three brothers who, purely out of compliment to one another, kept up a good-natured and urbane controversy as to which should marry first, had been overtaken by old age before they had got the question settled; here was a little young wife with a great old husband; there, on the other hand, was a dapper little man and an unwieldy giantess.

Publication of Urbane and his Friends.

In the latter part of this year Urbane and His Friends appeared.

Urbane is an aged pastor and his Friends are members of his flock, whom he had invited to meet him from week to week for Christian counsel and fellowship.

Urbane and His Friends is the only book of a didactic sort written by Mrs. Prentiss.

MY DEAR FRIEND:Many thanks for your kind words about Urbane and His Friends.

It is her own experience that she puts into the mouth of Urbane, where he says, after quoting Coleridge's tribute, "I have no recollection of ever reading this passage till today, but had toiled out its truth for myself, and now set my hand and seal to it."

It is for her, too, as well as for himself, that Urbane speaks, where, in answer to Hermes' question, "Who are the Mystics?"

Such is a brief outline of her teaching on this subject in Urbane and His Friends.

The little allegory in the ninth chapter of Urbane and His Friends expresses very happily this feeling.

Afterwards changed to Urbane and His Friends.

Some lady in Philadelphia bought forty copies of Urbane.

Who can imagine an English farmer pleading the case for an abatement with this happy mixture of fun and satire? "Urbane" is a word which etymologically bears witness that the ancient world believed the arts of courtesy to be the products of the town rather than of the country.

" So far, I find, I have chiefly dealt with the Art of Putting Things as practised by the "urbane" or town-bred classes.

" The urbane young baron alighting, assisted Annette to mount his noble steed, who, though overwhelmed by his kindness, refused to listen to all the consolation, or banterings, with which he endeavoured to cheer her on her way to Castle Mortimer, choosing rather to believe that some dreadful accident had befallen her lover, than that carelessness, or perfidy, caused his absence.

Smirt; an urbane nightmare, by Branch Cabell.

Sir George Covert, a trifle pallid, but bland and urbane, strolled out to the porch, saluting us gracefully.

Woe for the homes of the North, And woe for the seats of the South; All who felt life's spring in prime, And were swept by the wind of their place and time All lavish hearts, on whichever side, Of birth urbane or courage high, Armed them for the stirring wars

The question is, might they not jar occasionally?" "Oh, never, never! 'noblesse oblige,' you know," with a wave of the hand, soft and urbane.