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

The monuments looked calmer and less formal than when daylight bared all their defects of design or finish; they seemed now worthy of their position beneath the vaulted roof, and even, adjuncts themselves to the harmony of the architecture.

Ann and Mary, they're too common; Joan's too formal for a woman; Jane's a prettier name beside; But we had a Jane that died.

The comma alone seems to be the least formal of all, and the colon the most so.

she said, giving him her hand, and holding it rather high, in the English way, which seemed excessively formal to Nick.

But let a woman step past that mysterious wall which separates the formal from the intimateonly one stepat once she is surrounded by the eyes of a man as if by a thousand spies.

People of Condition are perhaps too distant and formal on those Occasions; but, however that is, I am to confess to you, that I have writ some Verses to atone for my Offence.

He dared to be more formal after that, and on the next night preached from a textthe Macedonian cry, "Come over and help us."

They rest on a confusion of formal with absolute truth, and it is on this account that they cannot distinguish between 'truth' and error.

" Wilder returned the grave bow of Mrs Wyllys with one quite as formal as her own; though he bent with greater grace, and with more cordiality, to the deep but hurried curtesy of Gertrude Grayson.

" Patrick was surprisingly formal at dinner.

Subscription is formal between us.

There is generally something a little dull and formal during the first evening of a country house party; and if this is true when most of the people know each other, how far more so is it the case with such a party as that which was now gathered together at Wyndfell Hall!