 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - 562 pàgines
...style of affected delicacy which fashion had made almost natural, ehapcait bras between his bands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm :...and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor." 1 Stone, "Chronicles of Fashion," ii. p. 330. 1742) The long wigs, with curls reaching almost to the... | |
 | Ethel Rolt-Wheeler - 1910 - 416 pàgines
...unhealthy paleness. " His eyes were remarkably bright and penetrating, very dark and lively. . . . He always entered a room in that style of affected...which fashion had then made almost natural — chapeau bas between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, knees bent, and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid... | |
 | Ernest Lacy - 1910 - 262 pàgines
...laugh is forced and uncouth, and even his smile is unpleasant. He walks with affected delicacy — knees bent and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor — and never wears a hat, but carries it under his arm or between his hands, as if he wished to compress... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pàgines
...WALPOLE After the painting by Kckhardt delicacy which fashion had then made almost natural ; chapeau bas between his hands, as if he wished to compress it,...and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor." If we had seen him outside the precincts of Strawberry Hill, he would have been in his light-bodied... | |
 | Ernest Lacy - 1916 - 482 pàgines
...laugh is forced and uncouth, and even his smile is unpleasant. He walks with affected delicacy — knees bent and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor — and never wears a hat, but carries it under his arm or between his hands, as if he wished to compress... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1920 - 256 pàgines
...march at present is more like a dabchick's." A lady has left a description of him entering a room, " knees bent, and feet on tiptoe as if afraid of a wet floor." When his feet were not swollen with the gout, they were so slender, he said, that he " could dance... | |
 | Paul Yvon - 1924 - 248 pàgines
...mourning, he wore hemmed cambric ». His affectations were obvious. « He always entered a room with that style of affected delicacy which fashion had then made almost natural... feet on tip toe, as if afraid of a wet floor. » (1) Such was the man who acted as a poetical master... | |
 | Erroll Sherson - 1926 - 396 pàgines
...into a room in that style of mincing delicacy which fashion had made almost natural : chapeau bras 8 between his hands, as if he wished to compress it,...bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. That is Walpole by one who knew him : it is also the affected fop of the plays of Sheridan and his... | |
 | H. Cotton Minchin, Humphrey Cotton Minchin - 1926 - 320 pàgines
...march at present is more like a dabchick's." A lady has left a description of him entering a room, " knees bent, and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor." When his feet were not swollen with the gout, they were so slender, he said, that he " could dance... | |
 | 1896 - 692 pàgines
...with bright, penetrating eyes, complexion and hands unhealthily pale, and an extremely pleasant voice. He always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion prescribed at that period,—chapeau bas tucked under his arm or compressed between his hands, knees... | |
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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. 
