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Use in Literature

Deportment

Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, `icily regular, splendidly null'.–Louisa May Alcott in Little Women.

I find him quick of apprehension, intelligent, and of sufficient gravity of deportment to ensure a respectful attention wherever he may go.–T.S. Arthur in The Allen House.

The fact of her having received a letter from Mr. Lyon, the contents of which he knew, as it came open in one received by himself from that gentleman, was not a sufficient explanation of so entire a change in her deportment.–T.S. Arthur in The Good Time Coming.

They were altogether absorbed in each other, standing together in the sight of God; and the deportment of ‘this congregation’ was a matter they scarcely noticed.–Florence L. Barclay in The Rosary.

As a private citizen, I shall be a model of deportment, because it would be dangerous to be otherwise.–L. Frank Baum in Sky Island.

I noticed afterwards that this deportment made the back of his jacket hang quite far away from his legs; and so small and sloping were his shoulders that the jacket seemed ever so likely to slip right off.–Max Beerbohm in And Even Now.

I have often wondered what would be the effect, other than an effect of astonishment, on the outer world, of one of these narratives illustrating our Five Towns peculiarities of deportment.–Arnold Bennett in The Grim Smile of the Five Towns.

His deportment is always ungraceful, though he often endeavours to imitate the posture of the antique statues; but even then he presents only a caricature.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.

Her teeth vied with ivory itself in whiteness: in a word, her form was as elegant as her deportment was graceful.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.

As for Hazel, his deportment all this time went far toward convicting him; he leaned against the side of the cave and hung his head in silence, and his face was ashy pale.–Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault in Foul Play.

• Preface v
• Use in Literature 1
• Deportment 1
• Deportment – "Being" 12
• Deportment – "Character" 13
• Deportment – "Conversation" 14
• Deportment – "Demeanor" 14
• Deportment – "Demeanour" 16
• Deportment – "Dignity" 16
• Deportment – "Dress" 16
• Deportment – "Easy" 17
• Deportment – "Eyes" 17
• Deportment – "Gentleness" 18
• Deportment – "Grave" 19
• Deportment – "Greater" 19
• Deportment – "Herself" 20
• Deportment – "Kind" 20
• Deportment – "Lady" 21
• Deportment – "Life" 22
• Deportment – "Little" 22
• Deportment – "Men" 23
• Deportment – "Manner" 24
• Deportment – "Nothing" 26
• Deportment – "Order" 26
• Deportment – "People" 27
• Deportment – "Soon" 27
• Deportment – "Woman" 28
• Deportment – "Young" 28
• Nonfiction Usage 30
• Bible Usage 30
• Bibliographic Usage 30
• Encyclopedic Usage 43
• Lexicographic Usage 58
• Index 70