 | Etiquette - 1880 - 236 pàgines
...as necessary in the one as in the other. Horace Walpole is described as always entering a room with knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor ; but we are told that this affected style was quite d la mode in his day. In the house a woman is... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 348 pàgines
...were extremely pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected...; knees bent, and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a w°t floor. His dress in visiting was most usually, in summer, when I most saw him, a lavender suit,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1883 - 426 pàgines
...being now unable to enter a room ' in that style of affected delicacy ' of which Miss Hawkins speaks, ' chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to...it — or under his arm — knees bent and feet on the tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor.' In the library, enriched with rare and handsomely bound volumes,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1883 - 424 pàgines
...being now unable to enter a room ' in that style of affected delicacy ' of which Miss Hawkins speaks, ' chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to...it — or under his arm — knees bent and feet on the tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor.' In the library, enriched with rare and handx2 somcly bound... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1883 - 472 pàgines
...were extremely pleasant, and if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected...delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; thapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pàgines
...were extremely pleasant, and, if I may say so, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait, he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which ashion had made almost natural : chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it under... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 pàgines
...in England. . . . His entrance into a room was in that style of affected delicacy which fashion had made almost natural — chapeau bras between his hands...and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His summer dress of 21 ceremony was usually a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 pàgines
...were extremely pleasant, and, if I may say so, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected...delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; chwpeau brat between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and... | |
 | John Forster - 1871 - 544 pàgines
...may so say, highly " gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; ho always entered a room in 41 that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had...and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor." Anecdotes, 100. 1771. bo ia said to have done.* There is nothing so incredible that the wisest may... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 pàgines
...Miss Hawkins, when describing the personal appearance of Horace Walpole, takes occasion to observe : ' He always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion had made almost natural, viz. chapeau bos between his hands as if he wished to compress it, or under his... | |
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He always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; chapeau bras between his 'hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor. 
