57 Verbs to Use for the Word formalities

Damon was however now obliged, together with Mr. Hartley, to attend the lawyers at Mr. Moreland's, in order to complete the previous formalities.

"Are you not willing to waive the formality of an oath, Mr. Tutt?" asked the judge in slight impatience.

A contemporary writer observes, that there is not the least doubt but that the witches of the olden time observed all the formalities of these ridiculous and disgusting ceremonies to the very letter.

"Before the performance commences, we have displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive scene.

He descended the stepsa sort of slave to the routine of deathas one who finds death, must run to perform certain formalities.

If you only knew how I loathe the responsibilities, the endless formalities, the people who prey upon me and those who would like to, the toadying of the older people, the hypocrisy of the younger ones.

There might be a dozen streets, principally crossing each other at right- angles, though sufficiently relieved from this precise delineation, to prevent a starched formality.

Their release had come; but first they must be marched through the length of the country to Kelso, there to await the formalities of exchange.

Fernando asked, forgetting the accustomed formality of touching his hat, by way of salute, while speaking with so punctilious an officer as Captain Snipes.

I only hope that, if you are thinking of fulfilling the legal formalities of your marriage, you will give me notice of the fact, so that I may come back, if I can.

His body is in the cemetery, waiting the military formalities.

The law is a slow and delaying business, and even a deed of gift requires endless formalities to go through.

"Cousin Jack, then, if you dislike the formality I used; both my father and cousin Jack examined the American navy registers for your name, without success, as I understood, and the inference that followed was fair enough, I believe you will admit.

The clink of coins was her most favorable accompaniment; and her giving of self was a sort of disrobing formality.

"Drop that formality from this time on," said Beverly earnestly.

Thereafter the stork subscribed five promissory notes, and they executed all the other requisite formalities.

The priests approached him in a crouching attitude, uttering prayers, and exhibiting all the formalities of worship.

"The King, not caring for the pomp and state his predecessors had assumed, was fond of exiling the formality practiced by a sovereign and taking on the easy manners of a companion.

So piteous a spectacle was she that Avery found further formality an absolute impossibility.

Great lovers through the ages have fixed up the preliminary formalities at Brinkley.

In the Rambler, No. 98, entitled The Necessity of Cultivating Politeness, Johnson says:'The universal axiom in which all complaisance is included, and from which flow all the formalities which custom has established in civilized nations, is, That no man shall give any preference to himself.'

His humour was perfectly equable, set beyond the reach of fate; gout, rheumatism, stone and gravel might have combined their forces against that frail tabernacle, but when I came round on Sunday evening, he would lay aside Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ and greet me with the same open brow, the same kind formality of manner.

First, be not bashful, bar all blushing tricks: Be not too apish-female; do not come With foolish sonnets to present her with, With legs, with curtsies, congees, and such like: Nor with penn'd speeches, or too far-fetch'd sighs: I hate such antique, quaint formality. ANS.

The examination of the papers was the most cursory thing imaginablea mere formality.

" On various occasions, when only members of the dub were present, she would lay aside the formality of the presiding member, and, assuming the familiar manner of addressing us, pour forth her lofty ideals for women, unconsciously testifying that the secret spring of her actions was her love for her own sex.

57 Verbs to Use for the Word  formalities