Yet the Italians are rather plain-spoken, and they recognize facts which our
company manners at least do not admit the existence of.
That three such high and mighty royal personages should arrive at once was enough to make Dorothy and her companions grow solemn and assume their best
company manners; but when the exquisite beauty of Queen Zixi met their eyes they thought they had never beheld anything so charming.
(who represented the master of the house), when there came a sound from the terrace which, startled me out of my
company manners on the instant.
We must be careful to keep out of sight though, as these folk turn shy and put on
company manners as soon as they see a stranger."
"It does seem pleasant to be quiet, and not have
company manners on all the time.
After waiting some quarter of an hour alone in the family sitting- room, which presented traces of having been so hastily arranged after a meal, that one might have doubted whether it was made tidy for visitors, or cleared for blindman's buff, Mr and Mrs Boffin became aware of the entrance of Mrs Wilfer, majestically faint, and with a condescending stitch in her side: which was her
company manner.
Independent councillor Kevin Thompson, managing director of Thompson Opticians, has joined forces with haulage
company Manners Transport to launch the district's first private commercial waste collection service.
In this English, an executed document is one which is properly signed rather than one shredded into oblivion, consideration is the technical inducement for making a contract rather than
company manners, and impeaching witnesses has nothing to do with jam jars.