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  • Men and women in costume, here a glittering princess, there a high-booted cavalier, flashing jewelry and flashing wit every where, dancing, liquor flowing freely, first wine and then cocktails and then perhaps boilermakers the level of conversation going up and up and up until the jolly cry rang out from the bandmaster's podium, the cry of "Unmask!†   (source)
  • The deal also provided free use of a 1998 Chevy Cavalier to a District 11 high school senior, chosen by lottery, who had good grades and a perfect attendance record.†   (source)
  • I sound cavalier, like executions are something I face on a regular basis.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino imitated her with good humor, making a cavalier's flourish with his top hat, but he did not win the compassionate smile he had hoped for.†   (source)
  • We were no longer so cheerfully cavalier about personal safety.†   (source)
  • Careful to hide their feelings, they nevertheless bristled at his cavalier attitude toward his wife and daughter.†   (source)
  • Each time I leap, I land a little more cleanly, a little more cavalierly.†   (source)
  • I wondered if I would ever be able to sound so cavalier about the "vegetarian" vampire diet.†   (source)
  • Mancuso frowned at his chart, nervous at being forced to pilot the massive submarine in so cavalier a manner.†   (source)
  • Augustus found a small crowbar among the tools the man had cavalierly abandoned, and rode up the street to the Hat Creek corrals, where he easily pried his sign off the fence.†   (source)
  • Why should I take you back after the cavalier way you treat people who are grieving for their loved ones?†   (source)
  • "I know you thought I was being very cavalier about my husband's personal safety, but I can assure you that I think about it a lot."†   (source)
  • Sandberg was too cavalier about life-and-death decisions.†   (source)
  • She seemed almost cavalier in her confidence that we'd manage somehow, and though I suppose I could have taken this as a reassuring sign, I was sometimes struck by the thought that I cared for her more than she cared for me.†   (source)
  • It did not need to be too solid, as he required only that it help him pivot upward in one cavalier motion and leap for the tree.†   (source)
  • He reined up grandly, waved the hat in one long slow swop, bowed halfway down off the horse-a broad sweeping cavalier's gesture.†   (source)
  • I was a little annoyed by his cavalier departure, but I soon forgot about it, for it was now late afternoon and all the wolves were becoming restless as the time approached for the males to set off on the evening hunt.†   (source)
  • Lord Cornwallis tried to lay a siege, but the Cherriky moved so silently that the Cavalier pickets never heard them bringing in supplies during the night.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, it appeared that in all likelihood if I played my cards right, remained the cool exotic Cavalier squire whom Leslie had found so maddeningly aphrodisiacal at our first encounter, if I committed no hapless blunders, this God— or perhaps Jehovah-bestowed gift would become part of a steady, even daily functioning arrangement.†   (source)
  • The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and detestation.   (source)
  • a cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit
  • It's a curled, flowing mustache, like a cavalier's, with a graceful goatee to match.†   (source)
  • I give a little laugh meant to sound cavalier.†   (source)
  • It was 11:20 P.M. when Christine Hargensen and Billy Nolan got back to The Cavalier.†   (source)
  • Never," I snapped, once again surprised at Helen's cavalier attitude.†   (source)
  • Otherwise you are statistically cavalier.†   (source)
  • It was three miles out to The Cavalier, even cross country, as Carrie was going.†   (source)
  • The Cavalier was a wooden frame building, and it was burning briskly.†   (source)
  • I go out to The Cavalier, drink some Schlitz, play a little poker out back.†   (source)
  • Isn't The Cavalier better than six miles from where you left your mother's car?†   (source)
  • I'll spend my Friday and Saturday nights down at Uncle Billy's or out at The Cavalier drinking beer and talking about the Saturday afternoon I got that fat pitch from Saunders and we upset Dorchester.†   (source)
  • The cavalier, a beautiful man, was lounging against a fence, a white rail fence, in a circle of light, a circle of admirers.†   (source)
  • He could make out the names on them in the glow of the street light that marked The Cavalier's parking lot.†   (source)
  • The Cavalier did not close until two; as a matter of fact, he could still see the neon twinkling and flicking through the dusty garret window.†   (source)
  • The Cavalier, Chris reflected, hadn't changed their records since the first time she'd been here with a forged ID two years ago.†   (source)
  • You're going to tell your dear old daddy that we were out to The Cavalier drinking beers when it happened.†   (source)
  • She was not even aware that she was following Carrie's progress toward The Cavalier, no more than she was aware of the process of respiration unless she thought about it.†   (source)
  • He's trying to get into some new waitress at The Cavalier," Billy said, swinging the wheel and pulling the Biscayne through a juddering racing drift and onto the Henty Road.†   (source)
  • Now if we could turn to At first, when she climbed up the embankment between Henry Drain's meadow and the parking lot of The Cavalier, she thought Carrie was dead.†   (source)
  • The night before the prom, a bunch of us guys were in the back room down at The Cavalier playing stud poker and I got to thinking Fast Marcel Dubay was cheating.†   (source)
  • The Chevvy dug around in a smoking half-circle, straight pipes racketing, and suddenly the clapboard side of The Cavalier was swelling, swelling, swelling and (this is) they slammed into it at forty, still accelerating, and wood sprayed up in a neon-tinted detonation.†   (source)
  • 131): While those going to the Ewen Spring Ball were gathering at the high school or just leaving pre-Prom buffets, Christine Hargensen and William Nolan had met in a room above a local town-limits tavern called The Cavalier.†   (source)
  • From the sworn testimony of Susan Snell, taken before The State Investigatory Board of Maine (from The White Commission Report), pp. 30~472: Q. Now, Miss Snell, the Board would like to go through your testimony concerning your alleged meeting with Carrie White in The Cavalier parking lotA.†   (source)
  • He still couldn't get it straight (my town this is happening in my town) that this was happening in Chamberlain, in Chamberlain, for God's sake, where he drank iced tea on his mother's sun porch and refereed PAL basketball and made one last cruise out Route 6 past The Cavalier before turning in at 2:30 every morning.†   (source)
  • He had, he felt, treated Mrs. Hubbard rather cavalierly.†   (source)
  • — Y'know, I really shouldn't let you in after the treatment I have received from you this evening I So utterly uncavalier !†   (source)
  • "That's the Judge and young Master Edwards," interrupted the steward, very cavalierly.†   (source)
  • Collis Clay out of the South edged a passage between the closely packed tables and greeted the Divers cavalierly.†   (source)
  • …. then remorse for this moment of betrayal, which so cavalierly belittled a decade of her life, turned her walk toward Dick's sanctuary.†   (source)
  • "Something that I shall have one day, and which concerns nobody so much as myself," returned Paul, picking the flint of his rifle, and beginning very cavalierly to whistle an air well known on the waters of the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • Do you fancy because you have heard Monsieur de Treville speak to us a little cavalierly today that other people are to treat us as he speaks to us?†   (source)
  • Hutter called for the glass, and took a careful survey of the spot, before he ventured an opinion, at all; then he somewhat cavalierly expressed his dissent from that given by the Indian.†   (source)
  • Almost at the same instant a similar fastening secured his ankles, and his body was rolled to the centre of the platform as helplessly, and as cavalierly, as if it were a log of wood.†   (source)
  • Whom have you got for a cavalier tomorrow?†   (source)
  • Am I correct in supposing that you intend to be a cavalier to one of the ladies?†   (source)
  • She stood back and viewed him with pride, thinking that even Jeb Stuart with his flaunting sash and plume could not look so dashing as her cavalier.†   (source)
  • He pointed out the departing sights with his hat, his outstanding hair getting a chance to live in the sun and evaporate its perfumes--what was there better for a rising young fight manager than to stroll in his white shoes and with yachtsman's furl to his pants on a sweet morning indulgent to human hopes and be the cavalier to girls?†   (source)
  • The spring came slowly, the new menage settled down, and Elaine arranged a tournament for her cavalier.†   (source)
  • Jeff Spaugh plunged off violently with a ripping explosion of his engine and a cavalier wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • At home -I mean in England- it was generally the Laughing Cavalier-I don't know why- or else a Tudor rose.†   (source)
  • It was as though the very cold and uncompromising conviction which propped him upright, as it were, between puritan and cavalier, had become not defeated and not discouraged, but wiser.†   (source)
  • She was going to say "when you haven't the man you want," but Gerald, incensed by the cavalier way in which she treated his proffered gift, the thing which, next to Ellen, he loved best in the whole world uttered a roar.†   (source)
  • Maria, when I asked her to go with me as my partner, explained that she had a cavalier already and a ticket too, in fact; and I saw with some disappointment that I should have to attend the festivity alone.†   (source)
  • Nor was that wonderful, seeing how cavalier had been the captain's answer.†   (source)
  • He was a youth again in feeling—a cavalier in action.†   (source)
  • And this Cavalier opposite to me—the one with the black velvet and the lace?†   (source)
  • Villona played a waltz for Farley and Riviere, Farley acting as cavalier and Riviere as lady.†   (source)
  • Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook?†   (source)
  • But to go attended by a cavalier—that makes a difference.†   (source)
  • A cavalier's greeting from table to table—nothing more than that at first.†   (source)
  • Nothing came of the cavalier's greeting from table to table.†   (source)
  • Sir Baron call me thou, then is the matter good; A cavalier am I, like others in my bearing.†   (source)
  • Get up, and don't be a goose, Jo," was the cavalier reply to her petition.†   (source)
  • Franz (the young cavalier), and the sober-minded cow followed them closely.†   (source)
  • The partie is arranged; I have my cavalier.†   (source)
  • The cavalier laughed aloud, which appeared to exasperate Milady still more.†   (source)
  • "Nay, I flatter myself that there can be no doubt of it," replied the cavalier in the cloak.†   (source)
  • The cavalier addressed some words in English to his sister.†   (source)
  • It appears to me that this cavalier has made you very angry.†   (source)
  • I ought not to have driven a bargain when it was to equip a cavalier like you.†   (source)
  • He was just in time to catch them at the swing-door, and he received a pretty smile from the German girl and a fine bow from her cavalier.†   (source)
  • Fay looked thoughtful and appeared to be debating the duplicity of men or searching for a supreme test to prove this cavalier.†   (source)
  • Marguerite contrived for the moment to evade her present attentive cavalier, and she skirted the fashionable crowd, drawing nearer to the doorway, against which Sir Andrew was leaning.†   (source)
  • This young cavalier, who won't have me?†   (source)
  • He had long since proved what a tough cavalier he was—it was hard to know what he had used to breathe with toward the end.†   (source)
  • An' cinch this, my cowboy cavalier, I'm goin' up there an' ask this grand dame some questions, an' if she's as close-mouthed as you are I'll arrest her!'†   (source)
  • …people of the South on behalf of his race, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress," the great wave of sound dashed itself against the walls, and the whole audience was on its feet in a delirium of applause, and I thought at that moment of the night when Henry Grady stood among the curling wreaths of tobacco-smoke in Delmonico's banquet-hall and said, "I am a Cavalier among Roundheads."†   (source)
  • When the story came to her uncle, a forgetful cavalier of a more hypocritical era, there was a scene, from which Eleanor emerged, subdued but rebellious and indignant, to seek haven with her grandfather who hovered in the country on the near side of senility.†   (source)
  • She had been made awkward by her not wishing to receive the news in too cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived and Polly had been made awkward not merely because allusions of that kind always made her awkward but also because she did not wish it to be thought that in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother's tolerance.†   (source)
  • When they had proceeded some hundred paces or so from the house, Aglaya said to her obstinately silent cavalier in a quick half-whisper: "Look to the right!"†   (source)
  • For a moment, then, the awkwardness of her position struck Marguerite; alone at this hour, in a place where she was well known, and having made an assignation with a young cavalier equally well known, and who arrived in disguise!†   (source)
  • He wears those old things, however, with remarkable decorum, quite the cavalier, I can only concur with you there.†   (source)
  • I would not think of asserting that, in terms of the courtesy a cavalier owes a lady, he would ever—agreed, dear friend, absolutely unobjectionable.†   (source)
  • Nor was he a handsome cavalier, but had visited little Leila out of medical and spiritual conviction, as a protest against the prevailing egotism of the place.†   (source)
  • He is a chivalrous man and can carry on a high-spirited conversation, a. cavalier, although apparently he does not enjoy the privilege of changing his attire often.†   (source)
  • "Allow me," he continued, having now created a space to say what he had to say, "allow me to repeat that I am in no way reproaching this Italian gentleman for any lapse of courtesy that a cavalier—I reproach no one for such a lapse, no one.†   (source)
  • In "presenting" herself, Clavdia had let her eyes sweep right past Hans Castorp and all the farther regions of the room; nothing happened at their next meeting in the dining hall, either; and the more meals that passed without his eye meeting hers—unless you counted Frau Chauchat's blind, sweeping, impassive gaze if she happened to turn around during a meal—the more unsuitable it would have been to attempt his cavalier's greeting.†   (source)
  • Prosecutor Paravant had been given a hefty slap on the cheek from the transcendent world, and had received it with scientific amusement, had even eagerly turned the other cheek—despite his being a cavalier, lawyer, and alumnus of a dueling fraternity, all of which would have demanded quite different conduct had the blow's origin been from the world of the living.†   (source)
  • It was Frau Schonfeld, and she was speaking about a cavalier with long legs and a sunken chest—he had already undergone pneumothorax—whose calling card read "Aviateur diplome et Enseigne de la Marine allemande" and who always appeared at dinner in formal dress, though never at supper, as per navy regulations, or so he claimed.†   (source)
  • For she understood, as she insinuated, that the real cavalier here was Hans Castorp and that young Ziemssen was merely his assistant; but since she was also well aware of Hans Castorp's partiality for Frau Chauchat, she assumed he was chaperoning poor little Karstedt as a substitute for a woman he evidently did not know how to approach.†   (source)
  • …last and subtlest of all, there was a gentle malice that was hard to define, but which she, with a woman's heightened awareness, surely had to feel drifting toward her from both adversaries, Settembrini and Naphta (and indeed her Mardi Gras cavalier felt it as well), and which had its origin in their relationship to Hans Castorp: the pedagogue's inherent ill will toward women as a disruptive and distracting element, a silent and primal hostility that united the two men by abrogating…†   (source)
  • There was Clavdia Chauchat herself, that charming, softly treading patient and traveler, who was Peeperkorn's vassal, by choice and conviction, to be sure—yet the sight of a cavalier from a long-ago Mardi Gras night on such good terms with her lord and master always made her somewhat uneasy, honing her emotions to a point.†   (source)
  • Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray steed, and weareth a golden helmet?†   (source)
  • When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.†   (source)
  • Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier.†   (source)
  • Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier.†   (source)
  • Rosier lingered a moment till Pansy came in sight on the arm of her cavalier; he stood just long enough to look her in the face.†   (source)
  • That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mounted, issued forth like a knight-errant in quest of adventures.†   (source)
  • And with overpowering compliments her handsome cavalier led her back to the place whence he had taken her, and where Luigi awaited her.†   (source)
  • She rewarded her cavalier with a smile, the cheery glow of which was seen reflected on his own face as he reentered the vehicle.†   (source)
  • There were a great many ladies and some of Nicholas' Moscow acquaintances, but there were no men who could at all vie with the cavalier of St. George, the hussar remount officer, the good-natured and well-bred Count Rostov.†   (source)
  • In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies.†   (source)
  • She would have liked to live in some old manor-house, like those long-waisted chatelaines who, in the shade of pointed arches, spent their days leaning on the stone, chin in hand, watching a cavalier with white plume galloping on his black horse from the distant fields.†   (source)
  • "Halt, rascals, and yield me that wench!" suddenly shouted in a voice of thunder, a cavalier who appeared suddenly from a neighboring square.†   (source)
  • When he had done, Mr. Van der School removed his spectacles, which he closed and placed in his pocket, seemingly for the pleasure of again opening and replacing them on his nose, After this evolution was repeated once or twice, he handed the bill over to Mr. Lippet, with a cavalier air, that said as much as "Pick a hole in that if you can."†   (source)
  • Quasimodo leaned over the Place, and saw that the object of this tender and agonizing prayer was a young man, a captain, a handsome cavalier all glittering with arms and decorations, prancing across the end of the Place, and saluting with his plume a beautiful lady who was smiling at him from her balcony.†   (source)
  • And what said your cavalier to you?†   (source)
  • Fleur-de-Lys was his last passion but one, a pretty girl, a charming dowry; accordingly, one fine morning, quite cured, and assuming that, after the lapse of two months, the Bohemian affair must be completely finished and forgotten, the amorous cavalier arrived on a prancing horse at the door of the Gondelaurier mansion.†   (source)
  • Luigi slowly relinquished Teresa's arm, which he had held beneath his own, and Teresa, accompanied by her elegant cavalier, took her appointed place with much agitation in the aristocratic quadrille.†   (source)
  • "Well," cried he, with that benevolent politeness which distinguished his salutation from the common civilities of the world, "my cavalier has attained his object.†   (source)
  • He followed with his eye each movement of Teresa and her cavalier; when their hands touched, he felt as though he should swoon; every pulse beat with violence, and it seemed as though a bell were ringing in his ears.†   (source)
  • "Your name?" repeated the cavalier a second time, letting his cloak fall, and leaving his face uncovered.†   (source)
  • At the end of five minutes they perceived the carriage drawn up by the roadside; a cavalier, richly dressed, was close to the door.†   (source)
  • At thirty-five, which was then his age, he passed, with just title, for the handsomest gentleman and the most elegant cavalier of France or England.†   (source)
  • Thus spoke and acted the gallant knights of the time of Charlemagne, in whom every cavalier ought to seek his model.†   (source)
  • The conversation between Milady and the cavalier was so animated that d'Artagnan stopped on the other side of the carriage without anyone but the pretty SOUBRETTE perceiving his presence.†   (source)
  • Porthos saw nothing in all this but a love meeting, given by a lady to a cavalier, or by a cavalier to a lady, which had been disturbed by the presence of d'Artagnan and his yellow horse.†   (source)
  • At the moment she entered, the curtain of a small gallery which to that time had been closed, was drawn, and the pale face of the cardinal appeared, he being dressed as a Spanish cavalier.†   (source)
  • "The lady had a cavalier shut up with her," said Athos, "but as notwithstanding the noise, this cavalier did not show himself, it is to be presumed that he is a coward."†   (source)
  • "What is that stupid fellow troubling himself about?" cried the cavalier whom Milady had designated as her brother, stooping down to the height of the coach window.†   (source)
  • Then, on the anniversary of the day on which I had been insulted, I hung my cassock on a peg, assumed the costume of a cavalier, and went to a ball given by a lady friend of mine and to which I knew my man was invited.†   (source)
  • The cavalier made a movement as if to follow the carriage; but d'Artagnan, whose anger, already excited, was much increased by recognizing in him the Englishman of Amiens who had won his horse and had been very near winning his diamond of Athos, caught at his bridle and stopped him.†   (source)
  • I am not willing that a compatriot, a handsome cavalier, a brave youth, quite fit to make his way, should become the dupe of all these artifices and fall into the snare after the example of so many others who have been ruined by it.†   (source)
  • It was scarcely eleven o'clock in the morning, and yet this morning had already brought him into disgrace with M. de Treville, who could not fail to think the manner in which d'Artagnan had left him a little cavalier.†   (source)
  • …tomb; no longer living but by the strength of his genius, and no longer maintaining the struggle with Europe but by the eternal application of his thoughts—but such as he really was at this period; that is to say, an active and gallant cavalier, already weak of body, but sustained by that moral power which made of him one of the most extraordinary men that ever lived, preparing, after having supported the Duc de Nevers in his duchy of Mantua, after having taken Nimes, Castres, and…†   (source)
  • The gentleman raised his eyes slowly from the nag to his cavalier, as if he required some time to ascertain whether it could be to him that such strange reproaches were addressed; then, when he could not possibly entertain any doubt of the matter, his eyebrows slightly bent, and with an accent of irony and insolence impossible to be described, he replied to d'Artagnan, "I was not speaking to you, sir."†   (source)
  • And then Spoade said they were goingsomewhere, would not be back until late, and Mrs Bland would need another cavalier.†   (source)
  • A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.†   (source)
  • This gentleman was one of those whom the Irish call a calabalaro, or cavalier.†   (source)
  • The incomprehensible language and the unpromising looks of our cavalier only increased the ladies' laughter, and that increased his irritation, and matters might have gone farther if at that moment the landlord had not come out, who, being a very fat man, was a very peaceful one.†   (source)
  • With these Florentines am I, a Paduan; often they stun my ears shouting, "Let the sovereign cavalier come who will bring the pouch with the three goats.†   (source)
  • The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all closing in around him, they set out with him for the city, to the music of the clarions and the drums.†   (source)
  • The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him and said, "Come with us, Senor Don Quixote, for we are all of us your servants and great friends of Roque Guinart's;" to which Don Quixote returned, "If courtesy breeds courtesy, yours, sir knight, is daughter or very nearly akin to the great Roque's; carry me where you please; I will have no will but yours, especially if you deign to employ it in your service."†   (source)
  • For what dread of want or poverty that can reach or harass the student can compare with what the soldier feels, who finds himself beleaguered in some stronghold mounting guard in some ravelin or cavalier, knows that the enemy is pushing a mine towards the post where he is stationed, and cannot under any circumstances retire or fly from the imminent danger that threatens him?†   (source)
  • …not by any fault of its defenders, who did all that they could and should have done, but because experiment proved how easily entrenchments could be made in the desert sand there; for water used to be found at two palms depth, while the Turks found none at two yards; and so by means of a quantity of sandbags they raised their works so high that they commanded the walls of the fort, sweeping them as if from a cavalier, so that no one was able to make a stand or maintain the defence.†   (source)
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