comportments

The comportments that were to guide her are imitations of her own.

The Assistant stephen hastings-king 2011

She works with a mirror on the Employer's comportments.

The Assistant stephen hastings-king 2011

For Maggie, an ornamented box with seven comportments, each containing a different kind of seashell.

Click by David Almond, Nick Hornby, Gregory Maguire, Roddy Doyle, etc. 2008

They all discovered the city-country divide in minute everyday aspects of their comportments: their languages, clothes, eating habits, even in their spectacles.

The Shining Path Abhay N 2007

Now seeing the most of those commodities, or as vsefull, may be had in Virginia by the same meanes, as I haue formerly said; let vs with all speed take the priority of time, where also may be had the priority of place, in chusing the best seats of the Country, which now by vanquishing the saluages, is like to offer a more faire and ample choice of fruitfull habitations, then hitherto our gentlenesse and faire comportments could attaine vnto.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England 1624

Dreadfuls "is how Hockensmith slips zombie horror stuff in between the proper English comportments.

Vail Daily - Top Stories Alex Miller Summit correspondent Vail 2010

Yet it appeared afterwards, when the har -; hnessc of the humour was a little allayed, by the sweet refreshments of court favours, that those sterne comportments supposed naturall might be mitigated; and that indomitable spirits, by gentle usage, may be tamed and brought to obedience. "!

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

Mr. Wood's sentence is, "that, in our author's history, may easily be discerned a partial presbyterian vein, that constantly goes through the whole work; and it being the genius of those people to pry more than they should into the courts and comportments of princes, they do take oc - casion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them.

The General biographical dictionary: 1812