"Decently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me! I shall be killed!" cried she, so lustily, that the well-dressed gentleman could not decently avoid inquiring the cause of her ...
— Poor and Proud - or The Fortunes of Katy Redburn • Oliver Optic
... Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... owner. On this occasion the subject of conversation was drinking in the States. He said, in reply to a question I put to him, "Sir, a gentleman must live a long time in the country before he can form the slightest idea of the frightful extent to which drinking is carried, even by the decently educated and well-to-do classes. I do not say that nine-tenths of the people die drunk, but I firmly believe that with that proportion death has been very materially hastened from perpetual drinks. It is ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... Liberal, if not Radical, leanings. He had taken no small part in the framing of the Reform Bill of 1832, and at one time he had been hailed by the English Radicals or Chartists as their coming leader. It was therefore expected that he would be decently sympathetic with the Reform movements in the Canadas. At the same time, Melbourne and his ministers were only too glad to ship him out of the country. There was no question of his great ability and statesmanlike ...
— The 'Patriotes' of '37 - A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion • Alfred D. Decelles
... idiot of myself," interpolates Beauvayse. "If you'll go back and sit decently in your chair, instead of standing behind me rattlin' keys and coins in your pocket, and dropping hot cigar-ash on my head, I'll tell you how it ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
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