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Curtsey
"Curtsey" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Mary should curtsey.
After dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.
I refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian.
Wid. I take my leaue with many thouſand thankes. / Rich. The Match is made, ſhee ſeales it with a Curſie.
[I]t was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately courtesies, and sweeping her train about, with a rustle which delighted her ears.
No caps were touched, no curtseys bobbed.
The hotel's staff never curtsied, nodded, or bowed to the owner as she passed, as they were staunch egalitarians.
"I’m sure you’ll excuse me, sir," said Mrs Varden, rising and curtseying.
On the other hand, Mrs. Ladbrook was standing in skull-cap and front, with her turban in her hand, curtsying and smiling blandly[…]
'I be as nothing in the eyes of my lord,' and she curtseyed towards him[…]
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1890, James Russell Lowell, Address in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America But DANTE was a great genius, and language curtseys to its natural Kings.
1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk He curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious.
1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games The gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight).
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