deportment

Her deportment is excellent as are her mental powers, and her desire for knowledge is an incentive to all in the school.

Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage 1955

You like to be prim and neat, and to be good in deportment and ahead in your studies.

Part I 1902

We sanctify God before others when our deportment is such as invites and encourages others to glorify and honour him; both are required, Lev. x.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Those are truly honourable, and those only, in place of power and trust, who make conscience of their duty, and whose deportment is agreeable to their preferment.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles, any coldness or imbecility, or, in short, any want of that large, flowing, and magnanimous deportment, which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.

XII. Essays. Manners. 1844 1909

Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles, any coldness or imbecility, or, in short, any want of that large, flowing, and magnanimous deportment, which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.

Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles, any coldness or imbecility, or, in short, any want of that large, flowing, and magnanimous deportment, which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

Not thus uniform and quiet in their deportment were the human creatures assembled at Waynesville, but, on the contrary, variety and noise were their prevailing characteristics.

Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839

Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

As to my kindergarten teachers, Ms. Bave and Mrs. O'Leary, I remember two not-so-sweet old ladies who fussed a bit with my "deportment" and both, born about the time of Lincoln's assassination -- they were both in their 80's -- are lost in the mist of the past.

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: What Makes a "Great" Teacher? Joel Shatzky 2010