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1. He was holding on his hat, and the rude wind, thwarted in its desire to frolic with it, frisked instead about his apron, twitching it up, bellying it out; so that his remaining hand had all it could do to smooth the apron down again decorously, and he was obliged to carry his umbrella pressed tightly against his side under his arm
2. A word or two with Kennedy followed, during which a greenback changed hands--in fact that seemed to be the open sesame to everything here--and we were in the elevator decorously escorted by the polished Julius
3. His first thoughts were how peaceful she looked with her hair fanned out on the pillow like a dark halo, her torso relaxed with her legs decorously together and her arms by her sides
4. It all started very decorously and politely but within half an hour the two women were quarreling rather nastily
5. He shook her hand, kissed her decorously thanking her in a loud voice and in another whisper, added,
6. well, my sister might well have fared worse! And it's a hard thing to pass everything by all one's life, to turn one's back upon everything, to forget one's mother and decorously accept the insults inflicted on one's sister
7. compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish
8. Bhaer would have gone decorously away, and come again another day, but how could he, when Jo shut the door behind him, and bereft him of his hat? Perhaps her face had something to do with it, for she forgot to hide her joy at seeing him, and showed it with a frankness that proved irresistible to the solitary man, whose welcome far exceeded his boldest hopes
9. In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb
10. And now, having worked like a field hand, she had to retire decorously when the fun was just beginning
11. He was decorously clad in She rustled down the stairs toward the two who still stood in the hall, for Pittypat had black, his linen frilly and starched, and his manner was all that custom demanded from an old friend paying a call of sympathy on one bereaved
12. Amory tamped out his cigarette decorously on the bottom of his shoe and then smiled a placid smile
13. thousand roubles’ (he repeated it as though it were a lesson) ‘and by that time my mother would be worn out with grief and anxiety and I could not succeed in keeping her in comfort while my sister … well, my sister might well have fared worse! And it’s a hard thing to pass everything by all one’s life, to turn one’s back upon everything, to forget one’s mother and decorously accept the insults inflicted on one’s sister
14. Everything was done most decorously, to the considerable surprise of the intruders
15. Then the guests scattered decorously to different parts of the room, and I heard them, with veneration in their tones, extol the business man, the business man's wife, the business man's daughter, and, especially, Julian Mastakovich
16. Then, as a sudden realization of the duty of a hostess seized her, she seated herself decorously in a stiff-backed chair opposite her visitor, and, adjusting primly what is technically known as a “front breadth,” gave herself unreservedly to polite inquiry