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Those curious, consulting the yellowed files of the newspapers, can read little protests -- signed with _nom de plumes_ -- from young women, complaining that young men of their acquaintance, after calling decorously on them, would cross quite openly to the house over the way.

The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

And now here we are, encountering another sort of ground zero — this one economic — and my house is stacked with photocopied short stories whose paper clips fall to the floor after being decorously pulled at by the tiny teeth of cats.

Eyes on the Prize 2009

Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters.

Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time Richard Bangs 2010

Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters.

Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time Richard Bangs 2010

Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters.

Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time Richard Bangs 2010

Wallace Nutting's hand-colored photographs of carefully staged "Colonial" interiors with decorously posed costumed inhabitants had popularized the myth by 1910.

Symbols of Our Nation Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

After a long court battle, a settlement was reached—the merchant was granted membership and the cats were more decorously positioned.

Little Country, Big Impact Kathy Reichs 2011

Jim should have gone with my suggestion of depicting Euron in his most iconic scene: drunk and naked but for an eye-patch and a cloak decorously covering the family jewels, a wine cup in hand.

Some Great New Greens... grrm 2010

The protesters have largely been very decorously behaved.

The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters.

Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time Richard Bangs 2010