1 The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
2 Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
3 Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.
4 A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
5 A direct fall from upright to horizontal, which was the end of the other fighting characters, was not an elegant or decorous part for a girl.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 6 Bazarov did not like this measured, somewhat ostentatious punctuality in daily life, 'like moving along rails,' he pronounced it to be; the footmen in livery, the decorous stewards, offended his democratic sentiments.
7 "Tonight, not later," said he in a low voice, and he moved away with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to understand and state the patient's condition.
8 Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life.
9 The whole tribe of decorous personages, who had never heretofore been seen with a single hair of their heads awry, would start into public view with the disorder of a nightmare in their aspects.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL 10 Even he was sensible of the decorous atmosphere and even he began to respond to the religious stimulus.
11 Under the masonic aprons and insignia he saw the uniforms and decorations at which they aimed in ordinary life.
12 He narrated that episode so persistently and with so important an air that everyone believed in the merit and usefulness of his deed, and he had obtained two decorations for Austerlitz.
13 A large crowd of militiamen and domestics were moving toward her, and in their midst several men were supporting by the armpits and dragging along a little old man in a uniform and decorations.
14 Then they dressed him in uniform with his decorations and placed his shriveled little body on a table.
15 Prince Vasili, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied.