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Anne of Austria caught the archbishop's mistress in her arms, and kissed her more than once, exclaiming, with no very great regard for decorum,
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
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What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Both are plac'd at the bar, with all proper decorum,
Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849
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Never did a school-boy enjoy a holiday more than he this freedom; the consequence was, that the wight ran immediately into the opposite extreme, and has carried the prize, notwithstanding he had trespassed against all decorum,
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
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Never were better or kinder people than his host and hostess; and there is a reflection of clerical importance about them since their connection with the Church, which is quite edifying -- a decorum,
Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821
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Both are plac'd at the bar, with all proper decorum,
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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But if WOMAN advance beyond the boundaries of decorum,
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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But if WOMAN advance beyond the boundaries of decorum,
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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Had it not been for my ingrained sense of respecting the established social decorum,
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Sic fatus, deinde comantem Androgei galeam, clipeique infigne decorum,
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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