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curtsey
1. At the earliest opportunity, she created a flamboyant ending, standing trying to suppress her panting chest before going into an expansive curtsey, almost brainwashing them into applauding … giving her the ending she needed
2. He strode across the clearing to Mama who greeted him with a small curtsey
3. But what about the words currently in existence: ‘ruff’ and ‘bow’? I guess they will redefine ‘ruff’ as a neck frill or a wrist frill, or something and ‘bow’ as a curtsey
4. Ma alighted from the tractor, and performed a clumsy curtsey as she lumbered towards her visitors
5. the grin; and Will smiled with her as he watched her curtsey over a giant six foot
6. Should she curtsey or not? She decided no
7. She wore dresses of white, and her golden hair was always curled atop her head, bouncing as she twirled or bobbed a playful curtsey
8. She offered a curtsey and Aesa bowed awkwardly
9. I fixed my eyes on his shiny buttons and gave an awkward curtsey before scuttling off down the corridor towards the safety of my study
10. Better to leave on a high, and Annie and I exchanged looks as she made her curtsey, knowing that we both hoped this would be our last time
11. After a little more graceful conversation of this kind the ball begins, and at the end of an hour's dancing, supper, consisting of radishes and lemonade, is served on footstools; and when they have cleared it up even to the leaves and stalks of the radishes, they rise with much dignity, express in proper terms their sense of gratitude for the entertainment, curtsey, and depart to bed, where they spend a night of horror, the prey of the awful dreams naturally resulting from so unusual a combination as radishes and babies
12. She bobbed a curtsey that sent the jelly sliding
13. away and did a graceful curtsey to her reflection in the
14. movement like a curtsey and cocked its short tail
15. We reached them and Cassius bowed and I tried my best at a curtsey which was difficult with Cassius still holding on strong to me
16. ' 'All that and more, you owe my lady,' the damsel's answer to me, and taking the four reals, instead of making me a curtsey she cut a caper, springing two full yards into the air
17. "Well," the latter continued, making a curtsey, "if it weren't asking too much," and she curtsied once more, "if you would"—and her eyes begged—"a jar of brandy,"
18. tractable and reasonable, settling himself well in his chair presented his face and beard to the first, who delivered him a smack very stoutly laid on, and then made him a low curtsey
19. And she bobbed a little curtsey of delight
20. curtsey to; when the landlady, taking upon her to do all the honours of
21. She came up to him and made a deep curtsey, as was only appropriate after a long absence
22. that girls of Kitty’s age formed some sort of clubs, went to some sort of lectures, mixed freely in men’s society; drove about the streets alone, many of them did not curtsey, and, what was the most important thing, all the girls were firmly convinced that to choose their husbands was their own affair, and not their parents’
23. the ball!’ And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing curtsey at each word
24. Kitty made a low and graceful curtsey in the very simple, that is to say, very elegant frock that had been ordered her from Paris
25. Varenka made—simply and naturally as she did everything—a movement between a bow and curtsey, and immediately began talking to the prince, without shyness, naturally, as she talked to everyone
26. I saw my wife curtsey and heard her say: 'Oh, sir, you are sweet'; then I was led into the clearing and the Duke of Clarence said: 'Pretty hot out there I should think
27. "Well," the latter continued, making a curtsey, "if it weren't asking too much," and she curtsied once more, "if you would"—and her eyes begged—"a jar of brandy," she said at last, "and I'd rub your little one's feet with it; they're as tender as one's tongue
28. I said this with just a Hint of Mockery but then fell before him in a Curtsey so complaisant that all Mockery was eras’d
29. I saw how her Words made Lancelot primp and preen; I saw, when she fell upon her Knee, how her Breasts were large as Tropick Melons (and loosely held within her Stays) and how Lancelot lookt at ’em! I fancied she had no scarr’d Belly, no Children at all to stretch her Breasts, and O I coveted her Hair—so like my former Curls—and O, O, O I coveted her Ship as well! More Sail I could forgive, more Cannon e’en, but more Hair, ne’er! I wisht her dead with all my Heart and Soul, yet I smil’d and took her Hand when introduced, and fell before her in a Curtsey so profound, you’d think I’d met the Queen herself!
30. That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean
31. She dropped a suggestion of a curtsey to Henry, and in a voice like her father’s, greeted him
32. 'And curtsey while you're thinking what to—what to purr
33. She saw that girls of Kitty's age formed some sort of clubs, went to some sort of lectures, mixed freely in men's society; drove about the streets alone, many of them did not curtsey, and, what was the most important thing, all the girls were firmly convinced that to choose their husbands was their own affair, and not their parents'
34. Then I showed it her in silence, folded it, handed it to her, opened the door into the passage, and, stepping back, made her a deep bow, a most respectful, a most impressive bow, believe me! She shuddered all over, gazed at me for a second, turned horribly pale—white as a sheet, in fact—and all at once, not impetuously but softly, gently, bowed down to my feet—not a boarding-school curtsey, but a Russian bow, with her forehead to the floor
35. "I thank you most heartily, sir, for your kind services," said Teresa to me, with a curtsey
