"Curtesy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... miss," said Lydia, with another curtesy, and she softly left the room. "Oh, mammy," she said, as she entered her mother's cabin, "Miss Janet say, if I'm a good child, God will love me much as he loves Miss Alice, if I is black. Miss Alice is so white to-night; you never see'd her look as ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... Americans, and—hem!—their friends, and not by Hindoos." She added charmingly, "This shows me my first words on coming here ought to have been to offer my warmest thanks to the brave men who have defended me and my child;" and swept them so queenly a curtesy, that the men's hats and caps flew off in an instant "Mr. Black," said she, turning with a voice of honey to Vespasian, but aiming obliquely at Fullalove's heart, "would you oblige me by kicking that dog a little: he is always smelling what does not belong to him—why, it is blood; oh!" ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... your service!"—and Miss Saville swept a curtesy in which dignity mingled with mischief. Her eyes were sparkling with pleasure, and Major the Honourable Hector Darcy—to give that gentleman his full title—looked hardly less radiant than herself. Here was a piece of ...
— More About Peggy • Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey |
