 | 1848 - 704 pages
...Time-server " was used two hundred years ago as often for one in an honourable as in a dishonourable sense, " serving the time." " Conceits " had once...without any gloom or sullenness implied. " Demure " (which is, " des mceurs," " of good manners") conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an overdoing of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1852 - 688 pages
...Trench's examples we select conceits, " which once had nothing conceited in them," officious, " which had reference to offices of kindness and not of busy meddling," moody, which implied no sullenness, demure, which denoted propriety of manners, without excess on the side... | |
 | 1852 - 638 pages
...time when " conceits" had nothing conceited in them; "officious" had reference to offices of kindness, not of busy meddling; "moody" was that which pertained...without any gloom or sullenness implied. " Demure" (which ie, rf« maurs, of good manners) conveyed no hint, as ft does now, of an overdoing of the outward... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1851 - 172 pages
...when " conceits" had nothing conceited in them ; " officious" had reference to offices of kindness, not of busy meddling ; "moody" was that which pertained...without any gloom or sullenness implied. " Demure," (which is, des mceurs, of good manners,) conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an over-doing of the... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1852 - 252 pages
...was only a farmer, a " varlet" was but a serving-man, a "churl" but a strong fellow. " Time-server" was used two hundred years ago quite as often for...without any gloom or sullenness implied. " Demure" (which is, '_' dea mo3urs," of good manners), conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an over-doing of... | |
 | 1852 - 644 pages
...was only a farmer ; a " varlet" was but a serving-man ; a "churl" but a strong fellow. " Time-server" was used two hundred years ago quite as often for...which pertained to a man's mood, without any gloom or aullennoss implied. "Demure" (which is, " des maeurs," of good manners) conveyed no hint, as it does... | |
 | 1852 - 420 pages
...when ' conceits ' had nothing conceited in them ; ' officious ' had reference to offices of kindness, not of busy meddling ; ' moody ' was that which pertained...without any gloom or sullenness implied ; ' demure,' of good manners, conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an overdoing of the outward demonstrations of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...Timeserver' was used two hundred years ago quite as often for one in an honourable as in a dishonourable sense " serving the time."* ' Conceits' had once nothing...without any gloom or sullenness implied. ' Demure,' (which is, ' des moeurs,' of good manners,) conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an over-doing of the... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...when " conceit" had nothing conceited in them ; " officious" had reference to offices of kindness, not of busy meddling ; " moody" was that which pertained...without any gloom or sullenness implied ; " demure," (which is des moeurs, of good manners) conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an overdoing of the outward... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1854 - 252 pages
...was only a farmer, a " varlet" was but a serving-man, a "churl" but a strong fellow. " Time-server" was used two hundred years ago quite as often for...without any gloom or sullenness implied. " Demure" (which is, " des moaurs," of good manners), conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an over-doing of the... | |
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... was that which pertained to a man's mood, without any gloom or sullenness implied. " Demure" (which is, " des moaurs," of good manners), conveyed no hint, as it does now, of an over-doing of the outward demonstrations of modesty. In " crafty" and... 
