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'Deportment'; our vices are the recognised vices of our reign and set.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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Our virtues are taught to us as a branch of 'Deportment'; our vices are the recognised vices of our reign and set.
Novel Notes 1893
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Madame Tremayne had been her stand-by, Professor of Elocution, Public Speaking, and Deportment.
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Almon his Man came to speak with Milena, telling her how cruelly his Master resented my severe Deportment; and therefore begg'd of her to gain me, if possible, to come once more to him, to give him
Exilius 2008
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Affections, which he found impossible to conquer, or bring into any bounds of Reason; the Gypsie's vertuous and generous Deportment, in desiring to be dismissed, rather than blemish her Lady's Family with such an unworthy
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In fine, his Deportment was instructive, and agreeable to all; but above all, to me, whom he most tenderly lov'd, and accordingly, was in every thing entirely obliging.
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In fine, his Deportment was instructive, and agreeable to all; but above all, to me, whom he most tenderly lov'd, and accordingly, was in every thing entirely obliging.
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Affections, which he found impossible to conquer, or bring into any bounds of Reason; the Gypsie's vertuous and generous Deportment, in desiring to be dismissed, rather than blemish her Lady's Family with such an unworthy
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He had been known to bite his tongue between his teeth while applying The Paddle to a boy with especially Bad Deportment.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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Rover Boy then went to his Synonym Finder and figured that using the various synonyms for “Stay” (both verb and noun) and “Course” (both verb and noun) there were 143 to the 247th power (37.8 followed by a lot of aughts) of possible combinations such as “Inhabit the set of Dishes” and “Rib the Deportment.”
Think Progress » Caught on Tape: A ‘Stay the Course’ Retrospective 2006
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