 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 332 σελίδες
...were extremely pleasant, and (if I may so say) highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait : he always entered a room in that style of affected...delicacy which fashion had then made almost natural ; cJiapeaw bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent ;... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1866 - 698 σελίδες
...practised then." His entrance into a room was in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had made almost natural, chapeau bras between his hands...and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His summer dress of ceremony was usually a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1866 - 698 σελίδες
...into a room was in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had made almost natural, chapcau bras between his hands as if he wished to compress...and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor. His summer dress of ceremony was usually a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little silver,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 832 σελίδες
...entered a room in tlmt style of affected delicacy which fashion had then made almost niitnrul: cttapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under lit-, arm ; knees bent, and feet on tiptoe, a« if afraid of a wet floor. His dress in visiting was... | |
 | Richard Stuteley Cobbett - 1872 - 458 σελίδες
...so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; WALPOLE'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 309 he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion had made almost natural ; chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it under his arm,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 σελίδες
...ex"tremely pleasant, and if I may so say, "highly gentlemanly. I do not remem"ber his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected...fashion had then made "almost natural; — chapeau &os between "his hands as if ho wished to compress "it, or under his arm, — knees bent, and "feet... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 836 σελίδες
...extremely plcH^ftiit, and, if I may so nay. highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait, lie always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion Imd then made alni«»<t nntunil: chapf.au (»ra» between his bunds, as if he wished to compress it.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 376 σελίδες
...were extremely pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait. He always entered a room in that style of affected...was most usually, in summer, when I most saw him, a 1 Walpole's 'Letters/ ut supra, vol. ii. p. 197. 2 ' Memoirs of the Novelists/ vol. ip 310. lavender... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 422 σελίδες
...were extremely pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait. He always entered a room in that style of affected...delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; cltapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and... | |
 | Eliza Cheadle - 1878 - 236 σελίδες
...are as necessary in * one as in the other. Horace Walpole is described as always entering a room with knees bent and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor ; but we are told that this affected style was quite d la mode in his day. In the house a woman is... | |
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He always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; chapeau bras between his 'hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor. 
