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  • She speaks in the up-country twang of the poor South, not the refined drawl of the Delta, an affectation borrowed by the rich people of our own region.   (source)
    affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  • Zooey gave a genuine roar of laughter, as if he clearly relished seeing any affectation brought to light, his own included.   (source)
    affectation = artificial behavior to make an impression
  • I must be getting on. Thank you for your society. (He reflects.) Unless I smoke another pipe before I go. ... But how am I to sit down now, without affectation, now that I have risen? Without appearing to –how shall I say– without appearing to falter.   (source)
    affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  • Eunice [affectedly casual]:   (source)
    affectedly = pretending to be
  • [Speaking of Jordan Baker] The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something — most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning — and one day I found what it was. ... She was incurably dishonest.   (source)
    affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
  • All his interests they treated as affectations.   (source)
    affectations = things done only to make an impression
  • I hate this affectation of youth, sir.   (source)
    affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  • I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his case.   (source)
  • I consider it an affectation to say that my grief prevents my attending to practical affairs.   (source)
  • ...I could not doubt that you murmured the word 'stereotomy,' a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.   (source)
    affectedly = in an artificial manner to make an impression
  • While Mr. Seymour's accent sounded genuine, Richard's fauxBritish-prep-school affectation grated on my ears.†   (source)
  • Instead, she slid her shades up onto her avatar's forehead—a blatant affectation, since sunglasses didn't actually affect a player's vision—and looked me up and down, making a show of sizing me up.†   (source)
  • And there was Robbie, who exasperated her with his affectation of distance, and his grand plans which he would only discuss with her father.†   (source)
  • The Cat could see Jack of Diamonds behind her, pleasantly sipping liqueur from a clear goblet, his little finger raised in affectation.†   (source)
  • The peculiar man waved a lazy wave at Ford and with an appalling affectation of nonchalance said, "Ford, hi, how are you?"†   (source)
  • The shyness which had been part of Theo Lane's vulnerability was still there, as evidenced by the way he now needlessly adjusted his archaic horn-rimmed glasses-the young diplomat's one affectation.†   (source)
  • For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation!†   (source)
  • He normally would not have done so, believing the delay was an unnecessary affectation, but this morning he did; he had to get hold of himself.†   (source)
  • Oh! that I could wear out of my mind every mean and base affectation, conquer my natural pride and conceit.†   (source)
  • She realized suddenly that playing with those marbles was not a deliberate affectation on his part; it was restlessness; he could not remain inactive for long.†   (source)
  • He grabs his hat, that silly affectation, and checks himself in the mirror by the door.†   (source)
  • He was happy that even after the many years that had passed since he had first quit civilian life he could still be frivolous enough to harbor an affectation-a cane that rounded out the suit and tapped like a horse against the cobbles.†   (source)
  • Eve supposed it was intended to be some sort of fancy cane or walking stick, a fashionable affectation.†   (source)
  • Now I felt that his affectations were more than affectations, that his personality had become fluid.†   (source)
  • He had a mincing way of talking, a thin, reedy voice that sounded like an affectation.†   (source)
  • Swaying affectedly on his long legs and drawling self-importantly, he told her that the cadets of his class had collected money for a farewell gift to the head of the Academy and entrusted it to him, asking him to choose and buy the gift.†   (source)
  • She did not know how to answer her mother's shrill, meaningless questions, put with the furious affectation of maternal concern; she could not pretend, when she kissed her mother, or submitted to her mother's kiss, that she was moved by anything more than an unpleasant sense of duty.†   (source)
  • He hated his mother's affectations.   (source)
    affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
  • Fagin's affectation of humanity   (source)
    affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  • For another, cigars, with Zooey, were not in any patent way a young man's affectation.†   (source)
  • It would be all right, in a way, if you thought his personal affectations were sort of funny.†   (source)
  • The same manly, straightforward character, not a shadow of affectation or make-believe.†   (source)
  • Esthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity.†   (source)
  • In the dozen years which followed I left the city half a dozen times; once to find a biosculptor who could rid me of my satyr affectation, the other times to buy food and supplies.†   (source)
  • We engaged in the preliminaries: small talk about Betsy's family, college, career (all stellar, A-list, awesome), and drinks dispersed for everyone (soda pops and Clamato, which Go and I had come to believe was an affectation of Tanner's, a quirk he thought would give him character, like my wearing fake glasses in college).†   (source)
  • The nape of her neck prickled as she realized his manner was not an affectation; she really did mean nothing to him.†   (source)
  • Like Adams, Rush was without affectation and unafraid to speak his mind, sometimes to the point of tactlessness.†   (source)
  • "Affectation is as disagreeable in a letter as in conversation," he once told Abigail, in explanation of his views on "epistolary style," and the same principle applied to making a speech.†   (source)
  • I should have been greatly astonished at this conduct, if the good Doctor had not told me that in this lady I should see a genuineFrenchwoman, wholly free of affectation or stiffness of behavior, and one of the best women in the world.†   (source)
  • When Arthur Lee wrote to tell John Adams that Jefferson's supposed genius was in fact mediocre, his affectation great, his vanity greater, and warned Adams to judge carefully how much he confided in Jefferson, Adams would have none of it, replying, "My new partner is an old friend …. whose character I studied nine or ten years ago, and which I do not perceive to be altered…… I am very happy with him.†   (source)
  • As for his eyes, they were wide and blue as a baby's, and he had eyebrows permanently lifted as if to say affectedly, "How charming!"†   (source)
  • ' Talk about grand affectations!†   (source)
  • She could be sharp, she disliked affectation.†   (source)
  • Blanche speaks with an affectation of demureness.†   (source)
  • It's fearful, it's awful, it's croo-el," and he began to weep affectedly.†   (source)
  • Uncle Henry liked Scarlett immediately because, he said, he could see that for all her silly affectations she had a few grains of sense.†   (source)
  • And he was never after able to see them touch each other with affection, without the same inchoate and choking humiliation: they were so used to the curse, the clamor, and the roughness, that any variation into tenderness came as a cruel affectation.†   (source)
  • At first all this seemed to me a ridiculous exaggeration, the affectation of a gentleman of leisure, a playful sentimentality.†   (source)
  • Conway had no race or color prejudice, and it was an affectation for him to pretend, as he sometimes did in clubs and first-class railway carriages, that he set any particular store on the "whiteness" of a lobster-red face under a topee.†   (source)
  • He immediately puts on an entrance act, places a hand affectedly on his chest, throws back his head, and sings in a falsetto tenor) "It's always fair weather, when good fellows get together!†   (source)
  • But the affectation of the style, with its imitation of the eighteenth century, hampers one, so far as I can remember; unless indeed the eighteenth-century style was natural to Thackeray—a fact that one might prove by looking at the manuscript and seeing whether the alterations were for the benefit of the style or of the sense.†   (source)
  • They were filled with a deep and tranquil affection for each other: they talked without constraint, without affectation, with quiet confidence and knowledge.†   (source)
  • As he made to her his trembling passionate entreaties, she would smile with an affectation of patronizing humor, make a bantering humming noise in her throat, and say: "Why, say—you can't grow up yet.†   (source)
  • He wept affectedly with sniffling sobs.†   (source)
  • He began to sniffle affectedly.†   (source)
  • He sniffled affectedly.†   (source)
  • But there is a right sort and a wrong sort, and it's affectation to pretend there isn't."†   (source)
  • Frau Stohr's affectations were dreadful to behold.†   (source)
  • "Yes," answered Mary without any affectation.†   (source)
  • "I asked a civil question, and I expect a civil answer," he said affectedly.†   (source)
  • "That's better," said Moreau, without affectation.†   (source)
  • Amory liked him for being clever and literary without effeminacy or affectation.†   (source)
  • I'm so listless," she said, drawling it out with the affectation of the uneducated.†   (source)
  • She was such a stranger that the kinship was affectation, and he said, "It can't be!†   (source)
  • Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm.†   (source)
  • He was an exceedingly genial soul, this young man, and wholly free of affectation.†   (source)
  • She had a way of making the best of things that seemed to him a sentimental affectation.†   (source)
  • Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.†   (source)
  • Be Wilson what he might, this, at least, was but the veriest of affectation, or of folly.†   (source)
  • "You had better go home," Lord Warburton said without affectation.†   (source)
  • Your indifference is half affectation, and a good stirring up would prove it.†   (source)
  • He would be a piece of professional affectation.†   (source)
  • Fleur-de-Lys replied to the captain with a bland affectation of disdain;—"Not bad."†   (source)
  • The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this without any affectation.†   (source)
  • Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.†   (source)
  • The affectation of the gauzy child, and her condescension to the boys, was a sight.†   (source)
  • Rome, her poets, orators, senators, courtiers, are mad with affectation of what they call satire.†   (source)
  • He praised her for being without art or affectation, for having simple, honest, generous, feelings.†   (source)
  • He is a retained attorney, and these airs of the bench[176] are the emptiest affectation.†   (source)
  • But if it was an affectation she was at a loss to see what her husband affected.†   (source)
  • He went to balls and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his will.†   (source)
  • 'My affectations!' he murmured; 'what are they?†   (source)
  • Milady remained silent; only this time it was no longer from affectation, but from terror.†   (source)
  • She moved with buoyant steps, and self-conscious, though without affectation.†   (source)
  • The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation of profound thought.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weston—(laughing affectedly) I must protest against that.†   (source)
  • He did not say that the Emperor had kept him, and Prince Andrew noticed this affectation of modesty.†   (source)
  • But Aglaya evidently thoroughly enjoyed the affectation and ceremony with which she was introducing her recitation of the poem.†   (source)
  • "We must give them time to get to know each other a little better, mamma," Mrs. Welland interposed, with the proper affectation of reluctance; to which the ancestress rejoined: "Know each other?†   (source)
  • The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them.†   (source)
  • And these affectations were in sharp contrast to the sincerity of some of her attitudes, notably her devotion to Our Lady of the Laghetto who had once, when Odette was living at Nice, cured her of a mortal illness, and whose medal, in gold, she always carried on her person, attributing to it unlimited powers.†   (source)
  • Now she was aware that they knew all about her; that they were waiting for some affectation over which they could guffaw.†   (source)
  • …all victories to be crowned by his own glorious death, a sort of priestly motive led him to dress his person in the jewelled vouchers of his own shining deeds; if thus to have adorned himself for the altar and the sacrifice were indeed vainglory, then affectation and fustian is each more heroic line in the great epics and dramas, since in such lines the poet but embodies in verse those exaltations of sentiment that a nature like Nelson, the opportunity being given, vitalizes into acts.†   (source)
  • This chief, seated in the centre of the group on a squared block of stone from the quarry, is a tall strong man, with a striking cockatoo nose, glossy black hair, pointed beard, upturned moustache, and a Mephistophelean affectation which is fairly imposing, perhaps because the scenery admits of a larger swagger than Piccadilly, perhaps because of a certain sentimentality in the man which gives him that touch of grace which alone can excuse deliberate picturesqueness.†   (source)
  • Her manner was simple, though for the very reason that she had not yet learned the many little affectations with which women conceal their true feelings.†   (source)
  • Its Literature and Art have what one might call the kink of the unseen about them, and this persists even through decadence and affectation.†   (source)
  • And Miss Stark, fashionably outfitted according to the season, her world and her own pretentious taste, was affectedly posed at the wheel, not only for the benefit of Clyde but the public in general.†   (source)
  • He fancied there was something of affectation in Cronshaw's minute knowledge of cricket; he liked to tantalise people by talking to them of things that obviously bored them; Clutton threw in a question.†   (source)
  • With an affectation of indifference I began to chop idly at the ground in front of me with my hatchet.†   (source)
  • "I think it's affectation to compare the Oder to music, and so do you, but the overhanging warehouses of Stettin take beauty seriously, which we don't, and the average Englishman doesn't, and despises all who do.†   (source)
  • Oh, you pity sing!" she exclaimed, affectedly, thinking all at once as much of her own pose before the window and its effect on the passer-by as of the coat before her.†   (source)
  • She spoke with a cockney accent, but with an affectation of refinement which made every word a feast of fun.†   (source)
  • All the affectation of manner which she had displayed at the beginning disappeared as the ballad proceeded.†   (source)
  • "I see no objection to its being old," the Princess answered dryly, "but whatever else it is it's not euphonious," she went on, isolating the word euphonious as though between inverted commas, a little affectation to which the Guermantes set were addicted.†   (source)
  • He mouthed affectedly.†   (source)
  • "Affectation!" remarked someone else.†   (source)
  • She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.†   (source)
  • Youth isn't an affectation.†   (source)
  • An hour or so later he received a note from Odette, and at once recognised that florid handwriting, in which an affectation of British stiffness imposed an apparent discipline upon its shapeless characters, significant, perhaps, to less intimate eyes than his, of an untidiness of mind, a fragmentary education, a want of sincerity and decision.†   (source)
  • I have sometimes thought, since your marrying Phillotson because of a stupid scandal, that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!†   (source)
  • He was himself more than a little ill; but without any affectation, he could say he was more inclined to be ashamed of the fact.†   (source)
  • And Francoise answered, laughing: "Madame knows everything; Madame is worse than the X-rays" (she pronounced 'x' with an affectation of difficulty and with a smile in deprecation of her, an unlettered woman's, daring to employ a scientific term) "they brought here for Mme. Octave, which see what is in your heart"—and she went off, disturbed that anyone should be caring about her, perhaps anxious that we should not see her in tears: Mamma was the first person who had given her the…†   (source)
  • He did not care any more what his friends thought about him: Cronshaw with his rhetoric, Mrs. Otter with her respectability, Ruth Chalice with her affectations, Lawson and Clutton with their quarrels; he felt a revulsion from them all.†   (source)
  • However, the prince soon changed his mind on this score, and thought that there was not only no affectation of indifference, but that Rogojin was not even particularly agitated.†   (source)
  • Conversation with his cousin had not satisfied his chatty affectation, and so he had intentionally struck up a new acquaintance.†   (source)
  • The cord of her pince-nez tucked behind her ear, she spoke with an affectation that was absolutely excruciating, and from up close, one had the impression of a woman whose reason had long suffered the tortures of boredom.†   (source)
  • …grandmother to place above all other qualities in life, and which I was not to teach her until much later to refrain from placing, in the same way, above all other qualities in literature; taking pains to banish from her voice any weakness or affectation which might have blocked its channel for that powerful stream of language, she supplied all the natural tenderness, all the lavish sweetness which they demanded to phrases which seemed to have been composed for her voice, and which…†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, the sight of this demure affectation aroused another, more distant memory in her monitor—it reminded him more or less of the way Karen Karstedt had smiled as she had stood with him and Joachim beside her still-undug grave in the Dorf cemetery.†   (source)
  • And when the chair-woman came up to collect her penny, with an infinity of smirks and affectations she folded the ticket away inside her glove, as though it had been a posy of flowers, for which she had sought, in gratitude to the donor, the most becoming place upon her person.†   (source)
  • Naphta was smoking a cigarette, and Hans Castorp asked himself whether he would like to do the same and, finding that he had not the least desire, decided this had to be an affectation on Naphta's part.†   (source)
  • Only recently she had told her tablemates about the "affectation" in the tips of her lungs and then, when conversation turned to historical matters, declared that remembering dates had always been her "ring of Polycrates"—which was likewise greeted by rather frozen expressions on the faces of those around her.†   (source)
  • She noticed, however, and as she stood there, bashful and demure, she thrust her head forward at a slight tilt and smiled affectedly with pursed lips, blinking her eyes rapidly.†   (source)
  • His advances to the dwarf were such that the crippled woman grinned until her aged, oversize face was a wreath of wrinkles; he paid Frau Stohr compliments that made the vulgar woman roll her shoulder forward even farther and turned her affectations into almost crazed antics; he asked Fraulein Kleefeld to kiss him on his great, ragged lips and charmed even disconsolate Frau Magnus—and all without any detriment to the tender devotion he showed his traveling companion, whose hand he…†   (source)
  • "I am surprised at you, sir," he added, after a pause, dropping his eyes affectedly, setting his right foot forward, and playing with the tip of his polished boot.†   (source)
  • [She suddenly breaks out vehemently in her natural tongue—the dialect of a woman of the people—with all her affectations of maternal authority and conventional manners gone, and an overwhelming inspiration of true conviction and scorn in her] Oh, I wont bear it: I won't put up with the injustice of it.†   (source)
  • This Musketeer had just come off guard, complained of having a cold, and coughed from time to time affectedly.†   (source)
  • I listened to his statement, which was delivered without any presumption or affectation, and then added that his lecture had removed my prejudices against modern chemists; I expressed myself in measured terms, with the modesty and deference due from a youth to his instructor, without letting escape (inexperience in life would have made me ashamed) any of the enthusiasm which stimulated my intended labours.†   (source)
  • "What affectation of diffidence was this at first?" they might have demanded; "what stupid regardlessness now?"†   (source)
  • There was with them no affectation.†   (source)
  • 'It is true, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with an affectation of humility the very opposite of his, and therefore in no danger of jostling it.†   (source)
  • I bet you think I am writing all this from affectation, to be witty at the expense of men of action; and what is more, that from ill-bred affectation, I am clanking a sword like my officer.†   (source)
  • Alexey Alexandrovitch, with the same expression of indifference, given him by his lifted eyebrows, sat down beside Darya Alexandrovna, and smiled affectedly.†   (source)
  • Mistrustfully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow "cabin."†   (source)
  • I desire an explanation: playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind; and I can't dance attendance on your affectations now!'†   (source)
  • MY aunt went on with a quiet enjoyment, in which there was very little affectation, if any; drinking the warm ale with a tea-spoon, and soaking her strips of toast in it.†   (source)
  • "O, you are so very welcome," said the little lass, with an affectation of grown-up manners at their best which was very quaint.†   (source)
  • There was great affectation of stillness during all these manoeuvers, in order, as Richard assured them, "not to frighten the bass, who were running into the shoal waters, and who would approach the light if not disturbed by the sounds from the fishermen."†   (source)
  • The mind is easily imposed upon by the false affectation of exactness, which prevails even in the misstatements of science, and it adopts with confidence errors which are dressed in the forms of mathematical truth.†   (source)
  • The thing is determined, that is (laughing affectedly) as far as I can presume to determine any thing without the concurrence of my lord and master.†   (source)
  • He struck the butt of his rifle on the bottom of the scow, with a species of defiance, and began to whistle a low air with an affectation of indifference.†   (source)
  • All the affectation of interest she had assumed had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety and fear.†   (source)
  • I wonder not that the restraint appears to gall you—more it were for your honour to have retained the dress and language of an outlaw, than to veil the deeds of one under an affectation of gentle language and demeanour.†   (source)
  • There was something almost imbecile in the movement, and Newman hardly knew whether he was taking refuge in a convenient affectation of unreason, or whether he had in fact paid for his dishonor by the loss of his wits.†   (source)
  • The brutal affectation with which you have enumerated and classified your crimes calls for a severe reprimand on the part of the court, both in the name of morality, and for the respect due to humanity.†   (source)
  • "Unfortunate!" echoed the little man, sideling nigher to his companion, and producing his tablets with an air in which exultation struggled, strangely, with an affectation of self-abasement.†   (source)
  • …of arched passages, and warded off obscure corners where footboys slept at nights with their heads among the knives and forks; curtains which called upon you to believe that they didn't hide anything; panes of glass which requested you not to see them; many objects of various forms, feigning to have no connection with their guilty secret, a bed; disguised traps in walls, which were clearly coal-cellars; affectations of no thoroughfares, which were evidently doors to little kitchens.†   (source)
  • She was incapable of elaborate artifice, and she resorted to no jocular device—to no affectation of the belief that she had been maligned—to learn what she desired.†   (source)
  • Considered as a demise, old Featherstone's death assumed a merely legal aspect, so that Mr. Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr. Vincy hated both solemnity and affectation.†   (source)
  • He made Louis XI. put out his tongue, shook his head, made a grimace, and in the very midst of these affectations,— "Pardieu, sire," he suddenly said, "I must tell you that there is a receivership of the royal prerogatives vacant, and that I have a nephew."†   (source)
  • "Only imagine, I've been taking him about with me for the last four days," he went on, indolently drawling his words, quite naturally though, without the slightest affectation.†   (source)
  • And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once according to my will.†   (source)
  • However, I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy; and as much for the manner in which it was said, as for the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one does not often see such a manner: no, on the contrary, affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.†   (source)
  • Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on this conduct of the Bishop, "It is affectation."†   (source)
  • "Deerslayer," she said, after a considerable pause, "this is not a moment for affectation, deception, or a want of frankness of any sort.†   (source)
  • "It is very clear, notwithstanding," replied the young man, with an artlessness wholly free from affectation; "tell her some fine morning an unheard-of piece of intelligence—some telegraphic despatch, of which you alone are in possession; for instance, that Henri IV. was seen yesterday at Gabrielle's.†   (source)
  • But a minute later his face suddenly changed and with a certain assumed slyness and affectation of bravado, he glanced at Raskolnikov, laughed and said: "This morning I went to see Sonia, I went to ask her for a pick-me-up!†   (source)
  • He tried to resume his former easy, indifferent air, but it was an affectation now, for the rousing had been more effacious than he would confess.†   (source)
  • He came and sat down at our table with a smiling face, stretching out his long legs and hanging his arm over the chair in the slowly graceful way which tall and well-built people may use without affectation.†   (source)
  • Mrs Warren looks round at Vivie and says, with her affectation of maternal patronage even more forced than usual] Well, dearie: have you had a good supper?†   (source)
  • That without any affectation of disparaging such professional distinction as I may have attained (which our friend Mr. Carstone will have many opportunities of estimating), I am not so weak—no, really," said Mr. Badger to us generally, "so unreasonable—as to put my reputation on the same footing with such first-rate men as Captain Swosser and Professor Dingo.†   (source)
  • The cruelty with which he shattered the world she had built up for herself so laboriously to enable her to endure her hard life, the injustice with which he had accused her of affectation, of artificiality, aroused her.†   (source)
  • Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.†   (source)
  • He had never let the fact of her Catholicism trouble him; Catholicism to him was nothing but a name, and to express a mistrust of the form in which her religious feelings had moulded themselves would have seemed to him on his own part a rather pretentious affectation of Protestant zeal.†   (source)
  • She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.†   (source)
  • There were people who had thought him affected; she didn't know whether they meant that his simplicity was an affectation.†   (source)
  • Besides, it's infernal affectation — devilish conceit it is, to cherish our ears — we're asses enough without them.†   (source)
  • "Harkee, Sarpent," he continued more gravely, though too simply for affectation; "this is easierly explained than an Indian brain may fancy.†   (source)
  • You say it's affectation.†   (source)
  • "What will we buy?" asked Jo, ignoring the latter part of his speech, and sniffing the mingled odors with an affectation of delight as they went in.†   (source)
  • Ever an old friend, ever like a dear friend and brother, when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face, and takes a grave liberty with us, and shames us out of our nonsense.†   (source)
  • They came up to us at once merrily and without the least affectation of shyness, and all three shook hands with me as if I were a friend newly come back from a long journey: though I could not help noticing that they looked askance at my garments; for I had on my clothes of last night, and at the best was never a dressy person.†   (source)
  • …Gheldolf van der Hage, first alderman of the ~parchous~ of the said town; and the Sieur de Bierbecque, and Jehan Pinnock, and Jehan Dymaerzelle, etc., etc., etc.; bailiffs, aldermen, burgomasters; burgomasters, aldermen, bailiffs—all stiff, affectedly grave, formal, dressed out in velvet and damask, hooded with caps of black velvet, with great tufts of Cyprus gold thread; good Flemish heads, after all, severe and worthy faces, of the family which Rembrandt makes to stand out so strong…†   (source)
  • Another voice, a woman's, suddenly asked insinuatingly and bashfully, though with mincing affectation: "Why haven't you been to see us for so long, Pavel Fyodorovitch?†   (source)
  • To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.†   (source)
  • He did not even give himself the trouble to dissemble, and displayed it with affectation before the queen.†   (source)
  • And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich and simple elegance, and without affectation.†   (source)
  • Hurry set about repairing his moccasins, by the light of a blazing knot; Chingachgook seated himself in gloomy thought, while Deerslayer proceeded, in a manner equally free from affectation and concern, to examine 'Killdeer', the rifle of Hutter that has been already mentioned, and which subsequently became so celebrated, in the hands of the individual who was now making a survey of its merits.†   (source)
  • One of the girls kept laughing affectedly, and saying, "Now Professor," in a coquettish tone, and the other pronounced her German with an accent that must have made it hard for him to keep sober.†   (source)
  • They had music; Emma was obliged to play; and the thanks and praise which necessarily followed appeared to her an affectation of candour, an air of greatness, meaning only to shew off in higher style her own very superior performance.†   (source)
  • Milady changed the conversation without any appearance of affectation, and asked d'Artagnan in the most careless manner possible if he had ever been in England.†   (source)
  • But if his admiration for Pansy were a delusion this was scarcely better than its being an affectation.†   (source)
  • Sergey Ivanovitch used to say that he knew and liked the peasantry, and he often talked to the peasants, which he knew how to do without affectation or condescension, and from every such conversation he would deduce general conclusions in favor of the peasantry and in confirmation of his knowing them.†   (source)
  • A grotesque-looking lady wearing a bustle (Anna mentally undressed the woman, and was appalled at her hideousness), and a little girl laughing affectedly ran down the platform.†   (source)
  • I wish I had never seen you!" cried d'Artagnan, with that ingenuous roughness which women often prefer to the affectations of politeness, because it betrays the depths of the thought and proves that feeling prevails over reason.†   (source)
  • He found nothing to perplex or disappoint, much to admire and approve, for overlooking a few little affectations of speech and manner, she was as sprightly and graceful as ever, with the addition of that indescribable something in dress and bearing which we call elegance.†   (source)
  • With an affectation of respect which evidently struck Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted.†   (source)
  • …off; she might have the assistance of fine clothes, and the privilege of bashfulness, but the man had only his own good sense to depend on; and when she considered how peculiarly unlucky poor Mr. Elton was in being in the same room at once with the woman he had just married, the woman he had wanted to marry, and the woman whom he had been expected to marry, she must allow him to have the right to look as little wise, and to be as much affectedly, and as little really easy as could be.†   (source)
  • No little affectations marred it, and the cordial sweetness of her manner was more charming than the new beauty or the old grace, for it stamped her at once with the unmistakable sign of the true gentlewoman she had hoped to become.†   (source)
  • The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.†   (source)
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