courtier-like

We were alone, and he was too fretful to be on his dignity, so I guided him to a chair, soothed him with a stiff b. and s., lit him a fresh smoke, waited courtier-like while he coughed his innards out, and invited him to restate his troubles, as calmly as might be, to sympathetic old Flashy.

Watershed 2010

Hymns we belted out, Rock of Ages, Onward Christian Solders, or The Battle Hymn of the Republic, were not of the elegantly allegorical nature of those sung by courtier-like Episcopalians praising a pristine King of heaven.

Michael Henry Adams: Grace Bromm's All-American Style 2010

The "courtier-like" comment was from someone named Cleo.

Seth Roberts: The Wisdom of Strangers 2008

This, I could tell, was excellent advice, even if I didn't know exactly what "courtier-like" meant.

Seth Roberts: The Wisdom of Strangers 2008

Dauriat was unwontedly courtier-like and complimentary.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Nor was his courtier-like calculation one of these rash speculations which promise splendid results on paper, and are ruinous in effect.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

“Don Guzman is courtier enough, as far as compliments go,” said one of the young ladies; “but it was hardly courtier-like of him to find us so sad an entertainment, upon a merry evening.”

Westward Ho! 2007

Nor was his courtier-like calculation one of these rash speculations which promise splendid results on paper, and are ruinous in effect.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Walden 2004

But her appearance — so different from what the Doctor had imagined — caused him to laugh, which entirely spoiled the effect intended; for the laugh of the Doctor was so contagious, that she herself was the first to imitate it, and the Amazons, courtier-like, followed suit.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004