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verb

Deport v. t. (past & past part. deported; pres. part. deporting)

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment; to expel (from a region or country). "He told us he had been deported to Spain."

To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; followed by the reflexive pronoun. "Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince."

noun

Deport n. Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. (Obs.) "Goddesslike deport."

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"Deport" Quotes from Famous Books

... sack of potatoes, they opened fire on us and lowered two boats to tow away the ship. Tom and me got mixed up in the general opinion of the place, which was stinking bad and what they called a pirates' nest, and an English man-of-war came down special to deport Tom. I never was so glad in my life to be an American, for, though the captain gave Tom what he called the benefit of the doubt, they fined him two hundred and fifty dollars and slanged ...

— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

... to stay," said her friends. "You will be practically a prisoner of war. You will be at the mercy of the Turks. You know what the Turk is—as treacherous as he is cruel. They can, if they wish, rob you or deport you anywhere they like. Go now while the path is open—before it is too late. You are in the very middle of Turkey, hundreds of miles from any help. The ...

— The Book of Missionary Heroes • Basil Mathews

... husband immediately began to talk, so there was no need for Agatha to do anything but walk on, trying to remember where she was, and what course of conduct she had to pursue; trying above all to repress these alternate storms of anger and lulls of despair, and deport herself not like a passionate child, but a reasonable woman—a woman who, after all, might ...

— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

... to enlist the help of these men. Without some aid it would have been impossible to look after Tresler. She feared her father, as well she might. What would be easier than for him to get her out of the way, and then have Jake deport her patient to the bunkhouse? Doc. Osler's threats of life or death had been exaggerated to help her carry her point, she knew, and, also, she fully realized that her father understood this was so. He was not the man to be scared of any bogey like that. ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

... is the duty of the Negro—as the greater part of the race is already doing—to deport himself modestly in regard to political claims, depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed from the possession of property, intelligence, and high character for the full recognition of his political rights. I think that the according of the full exercise of political rights is going ...

— Up From Slavery: An Autobiography • Booker T. Washington

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