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  • He gave it a solemn salutation-Senora--and signed it with his initial, as he had done in the perfumed love letters of his youth.†   (source)
  • No salutation, no signature.†   (source)
  • Islanzadi made the expected response, and in an attempt to please her and demonstrate his knowledge of their customs, Eragon concluded with the optional third line of the salutation: "And may peace live in your heart."†   (source)
  • They shook hands and murmured salutations in a silence that began to stiffen like the beaten white of an egg.†   (source)
  • During the first few months, I received one letter from Winnie, but it was so heavily censored that not much more than the salutation was left.†   (source)
  • Salutations!†   (source)
  • Drinks are offered, salutations exchanged, compliments murmured, sometimes shouted, to Izzi's embarrassment.†   (source)
  • Salugi, they cried, that strange word, maybe some corruption of the Italian saluto, maybe a mock salutation—hello, we've got your hat, now try and get it back.†   (source)
  • "Iwo Jima hero!" was the inescapable salutation.†   (source)
  • Omitting the salutation, I began.†   (source)
  • He clutched it in his hand, restraining the mad urge to thrust it up to the sky in a salutation of victory.†   (source)
  • Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched.†   (source)
  • They all end with little boosters like "Be Strong!" or "Never lose faith" and always the salutation "Love, Donald."†   (source)
  • He handed the phone to an impatient Raison, who listened and ended the call with a polite salutation.†   (source)
  • The writer is a dear friend of Mr. Mompellion's, and so you see he spends much time upon salutations and expressions of concern and hopes that Mr. Mompellion may yet be mistaken in his suspicions of the nature of the disease amongst us.†   (source)
  • Nothing has ever affected me in that same profoundly visceral way as the salutation of the Corps when I broke free from the steamy enclave of the locker room into the blue-hazed, cavernous, light-filtered center of the Armory.†   (source)
  • There is no salutation of any kind.†   (source)
  • But throughout the demon's jesting . chatter and salutations, Max focused on one horrifying realization.†   (source)
  • I suppose the other older folks who live here receive their due share of generosity and respect, but it seems I alone rate the blustery greeting, the special salutation.†   (source)
  • Their German would be more precise, you can trust them more than you can a prisoner, and they would be familiar with addresses and salutations.†   (source)
  • He looked at the great tusks and the curving trunk, caught by the skill of the taxidermist in the moment of challenge or salutation.†   (source)
  • And the young men returned the bows with thanks, returned the wish, went on their way with salutations.†   (source)
  • He did not repeat his salutation, but stood waiting.†   (source)
  • They gazed gravely into the eyes of the men on the ferry, and neither of them moved, or made any sign of salutation, until the craft was made fast.†   (source)
  • He lifted his hand in salutation to her, and she lifted hers to him, her eyes blurred with tears, and the low hull of the vessel swung away around Point Gellibrand and vanished in the murk.†   (source)
  • I would have passed after a brief salutation, for among us there is a dislike of the moneylending class, but he stood squarely in my path.†   (source)
  • Rachelle ran without further salutation.†   (source)
  • She yawned, her teeth flashing, then exchanged salutations with Oromis and Glaedr.†   (source)
  • I went back to the beginning and added "Dear Char" as the salutation.†   (source)
  • "Salutations are greetings," said the voice.†   (source)
  • After that, he gave him the salutation which one would use on a gentleman and went on his way.†   (source)
  • Govinda made the gesture of a salutation and said: "Farewell."†   (source)
  • He did not have to tear open the envelope, for the water had dissolved the glue, but the letter was dry: three closely written pages with no salutation, and signed with the initials of her married name.†   (source)
  • She expected the reply that her insulting letter deserved, a letter that she began to regret the very moment she sent it, but from the majestic salutation and the subject of the first paragraph, she realized that something had changed in the world.†   (source)
  • The salutations varied from man to woman, adults to children, boys to girls, as well as by rank and prestige.†   (source)
  • One time he blacked out all but the salutation 'Dear Mary' from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, 'I yearn for you tragically.†   (source)
  • He went quickly through a salutation and four or five lines of awkward formalities in an unpracticed hand.†   (source)
  • When you arrive in Surda, convey my royal salutations to Lady Nasuada and King Orrin and inform them that our warriors will soon attack the northern half of the Empire.†   (source)
  • It took a moment of clumsy ceremony with overlapping salutations and unheeded questions and a dropped book and a race to retrieve it before the two men were settled at the table and all the objects put away.†   (source)
  • Bill Ramsey, a sixty-eight-year-old black engineer from MIT's class of '51 who arrived to run this program seven years ago to "give something back," speaks first, welcoming the students and offering a gruff but lovable "call me Bill, but no other names, please" salutation.†   (source)
  • And looking very superior, he tossed down on the table a photostatic copy of a piece of V mail in which everything but the salutation 'Dear Mary' had been blocked out and on which the censoring officer had written, 'I long for you tragically.†   (source)
  • "Salutations!" repeated the voice.†   (source)
  • And what are salutations?†   (source)
  • "Salutations!" it said.†   (source)
  • Salutations!†   (source)
  • To everybody I met, I flashed the toothy grin, the hearty salutation, and the slaphappy demeanor of someone desperately in need of friendship.†   (source)
  • I waited for Prophet to utter some endearing salutation like, "Man ain't got no hair on his haid," but the gang contented themselves with staring and whispering when Peter first made his entrance.†   (source)
  • They were dear boys, she thought, as she returned their salutations.†   (source)
  • When its master came into the room it winked one eye in salutation, although it was stuffed.†   (source)
  • Maria had turned and waved her hand at him and El Sordo waved disparagingly with the abrupt, Spanish upward flick of the forearm as though something were being tossed away which seems the negation of all salutation which has not to do with business.†   (source)
  • (abruptly to Parritt) Speaking of whiskey, sir, reminds me—and, I hope, reminds you—that when meeting a Prince the customary salutation is "What'll you have?†   (source)
  • As he rode up to the church, the old priest came out to meet him, and after his salutation stood looking at Father Latour, shading his failing eyes with his hand.†   (source)
  • Salutations to Thee, 0 God Supreme!†   (source)
  • We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing…†   (source)
  • He rode up to the Bishop and reining in his black gelding, uncovered his head in a broad salutation, while his escort surrounded the churchmen and fired their muskets into the air.†   (source)
  • Then, overcome with wonder, his hair standing on end, Arjuna bowed his head to the Lord, joined his palms in salutation, and addressed Him: In Thy body, 0 Lord, I behold all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings—the Lord Brahma, seated on the lotus, all the patriarchs * The principal text of modern Hindu devotional religiosity: an ethical dialogue of eighteen chapters, appearing in Book VI of the Mahabharata, which is the Indian counterpart of the Iliad. and the celestial…†   (source)
  • …it galloped without weariness or progress, forever and forever immortal beneath the brandished sabre and the shot-torn flags rushing down a sky in color like thunder; stood there and heard Sutpen inside the house speak his single sentence of salutation inquiry and farewell to the granddaughter, and Father said that for a second Wash must not have felt the very earth under his feet while he watched Sutpen emerge from the house, the riding whip in his hand, thinking quietly, like in a…†   (source)
  • Father Vaillant caught up his two valises himself, the chamberlain not being there at the moment, and thus laden, was bowing himself backward out of the presence, when the Pope rose from his chair and lifted his hand, not in benediction but in salutation, and called out to the departing missionary, as one man to another, "Coraggio, Americano!"†   (source)
  • Salutations, salutations to Thee!†   (source)
  • …instant before he looked at it and which might fade, vanish, at any instant while he still did: the dead tongue speaking after the four years and then after almost fifty more, gentle sardonic whimsical and incurably pessimistic, without date or salutation or signature: You will notice how I insult neither of us by claiming this to be a voice from the defeated even, let alone from the dead In fact, if I were a philosopher I should deduce and derive a curious and apt commentary on the…†   (source)
  • Then he took up the corkscrew and went out of the door sideways, muttering some form of salutation.†   (source)
  • Then, making a salutation as to the ship herself, "And good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man."†   (source)
  • Having answered the Count's salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken.†   (source)
  • Martin and Leora came into a shambles of salutations and daughters.†   (source)
  • They left the pool in silence, after this one salutation.†   (source)
  • [He takes off his hat to Mrs. Pearce, who disdains the salutation and goes out.†   (source)
  • "George, I let Mary go yesterday," was not an unfrequent salutation at the dinner table.†   (source)
  • He raised his hand in salutation, but Gunch ignored it and crossed the street.†   (source)
  • It was accompanied by a smile and a salutation from the cashier who paid it.†   (source)
  • Throughout the squalor of her homeward drive--she spoke at once--his salutation remained.†   (source)
  • What could Briggs do but accept the salutation?†   (source)
  • She gave the dancing-girls' salutation in mockery.†   (source)
  • "Your sarvant, sir, your sarvant," said the grub-man, making a low salutation behind his apron.†   (source)
  • "I am afraid you had given me up, sir," said the old man, after many apologies and salutations.†   (source)
  • Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars.†   (source)
  • He receives these salutations with gravity and buries them along with the rest of his knowledge.†   (source)
  • "Miss Price all alone" and "My dear Fanny, how comes this?" were the first salutations.†   (source)
  • He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.†   (source)
  • The only parting salutation of which he delivered himself was a sulky 'Good night, father!'†   (source)
  • The laborers paused, sat up, wrung the water from their hands, and returned the salutation.†   (source)
  • And Jo took heart again, for that salutation could not be called lover-like.†   (source)
  • The old lady smilingly returned his salutation, and, closing the door, went back to her own room.†   (source)
  • Kartasov went out without making his salutation, and the box was left empty.†   (source)
  • After hailing the mom with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third.†   (source)
  • I'd rather have a hearty English handshake than all the sentimental salutations in France."†   (source)
  • Madame de Villefort acknowledged the salutation with one of her most gracious smiles.†   (source)
  • 'Your thervant, Thquire,' was his cautious salutation as they passed in.†   (source)
  • 'Well, Mr. and Mrs. Micawber,' was my aunt's first salutation after we were seated.†   (source)
  • The action, taken with the salutation, could not be misunderstood, and was not.†   (source)
  • "I have not failed to do so, your Reverences," replied the young man, returning their salutation.†   (source)
  • I am Simonides, and a Jew; and I return you your salutation, with prayer to know who calls upon me.†   (source)
  • Thus they applied very curtly to the salutations, healths, and jokes of their companions.†   (source)
  • At this moment the countess perceived Albert, and returned his salutation with a smile.†   (source)
  • He responded politely to the salutations of Gilberte's companions, even to mine, for all that he was no longer on good terms with my family, but without appearing to know who I was.†   (source)
  • The cheery salutation he had ready for her died unborn and he tumbled the pieces of pottery awkwardly on the grass while some unfamiliar, deep-seated emotion, mixed with pity and glad assurance of his power to succor her, held him dumb.†   (source)
  • He gave me no salutation; indeed it was no time for civilities; only "Come!" says he, and set off running along the side of the mountain towards Balaehulish; and I, like a sheep, to follow him.†   (source)
  • And when after a time Whiggam was sent for and appeared and had acknowledged Clyde's salutation, he observed: "Whiggam, I've just been telling my cousin here about our conversation this morning and what I told you about our plan to try him out as the head of that department.†   (source)
  • ELVSTED, in passing, exchanges slight salutations with the gentlemen in the inner room, then goes up to the table and gives HEDDA her hand.†   (source)
  • Trenor, red and uncomfortable, had cut short his salutations on the pretext of a word to say to the head-waiter; and the rest of the group soon melted away in Mrs. Trenor's wake.†   (source)
  • One of the campers below the crossing came out in the open to halloo at Jett, more in friendly salutation than otherwise.†   (source)
  • Now, as one of the squirearchy, greeted with honorable salutations by the villagers, he marched into his office, and peace and dignity were upon him, and the morning's dissonances all unheard.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Axia!" he shouted in salutation.†   (source)
  • And for that he hath been a king, it is meet that other than common observance shall be his due; wherefore note this his dress of state, for by it he shall be known, and none shall copy it; and wheresoever he shall come, it shall remind the people that he hath been royal, in his time, and none shall deny him his due of reverence or fail to give him salutation.†   (source)
  • Sally had bustled off to her kitchen whilst Jellyband, still profuse with his respectful salutations, arranged one or two chairs around the fire.†   (source)
  • Charles could give no reason; but Margaret felt as if, over tremendous distance, a salutation had passed between them.†   (source)
  • Such salutations always astonished Dick—acquaintances saying "Hi!" to them, or speaking only to one of them.†   (source)
  • Robin told me shortly he was sorry he had put himself about, turned his back upon me without a sign of salutation, and as he went towards the door, I could hear him telling Duncan that I was "only some kinless loon that didn't know his own father."†   (source)
  • When the Surgeon entered—a self-poised character of that grave sense and experience that hardly anything could take him aback,—Captain Vere advanced to meet him, thus unconsciously intercepting his view of Claggart, and interrupting the other's wonted ceremonious salutation, said, "Nay, tell me how it is with yonder man," directing his attention to the prostrate one.†   (source)
  • [Mutual salutations.†   (source)
  • While the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors, Billy, undeterred thereby, revering him as a salt hero, would make advances, never passing the old Agamemnon man without a salutation marked by that respect which is seldom lost on the aged however crabbed at times or whatever their station in life.†   (source)
  • Otsego is said to be a word compounded of Ot, a place of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region.†   (source)
  • Jasper was at the helm, and he kept away, smiling at the same time as if he felt no anger at the rudeness of the salutation.†   (source)
  • It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance: "Good day!"†   (source)
  • The queen remained for a short time to receive the compliments of the city dignitaries and to reply to the salutations of the ladies.†   (source)
  • "And where the deuce ha' you been?" was Mrs. Joe's Christmas salutation, when I and my conscience showed ourselves.†   (source)
  • But the fresh air and bright sun seldom failed to restore me to some degree of composure, and on my return I met the salutations of my friends with a readier smile and a more cheerful heart.†   (source)
  • The nod with which, instead of a hand-shake, he wound up this little speech was perhaps rather a meagre form of salutation; but on the whole it was all the occasion demanded.†   (source)
  • All of these people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched out their families to gape at me; but nobody ever noticed that other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no response for their pains.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I saw him at his work in the woods, felling trees, and he would greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well.†   (source)
  • This unexpected salutation alarmed the girl no more than the presence of the fierce inhabitants of the woods.†   (source)
  • Outside the balustrade of the tower, directly under the point where the priest had paused, there was one of those fantastically carved stone gutters with which Gothic edifices bristle, and, in a crevice of that gutter, two pretty wallflowers in blossom, shaken out and vivified, as it were, by the breath of air, made frolicsome salutations to each other.†   (source)
  • Steerforth, after very much improving Mrs. Gummidge's spirits by a cheerful salutation and a jocose embrace, took my arm, and hurried me away.†   (source)
  • He rose to return the salutation.†   (source)
  • 'Papa!' she exclaimed, after the morning's salutations, 'guess whom I saw yesterday, in my walk on the moors.†   (source)
  • It was a little confusing, though, that the young woman began to speak to the old one in a language which Maggie did not understand, while the tall girl, who was feeding the donkey, sat up and stared at her without offering any salutation.†   (source)
  • As soon as this slight salutation had passed, Montcalm moved toward them with a quick but graceful step, baring his head to the veteran, and dropping his spotless plume nearly to the earth in courtesy.†   (source)
  • Whenever I went out, I heard on all sides cordial salutations, and was welcomed with friendly smiles.†   (source)
  • All stood up to receive her; and, replying to their courtesy by a mute gesture of salutation, she moved gracefully forward to assume her place at the board.†   (source)
  • She was yet speaking when a tall, half naked savage, approached the spot where they stood, and after examining the whole party as closely as the dim light permitted, for more than a minute in perfect stillness, he gave the usual salutation in the harsh and guttural tones of his own language.†   (source)
  • Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.†   (source)
  • As he passed, this person exchanged a cold and distant salutation with Baglioni, but fixed his eyes upon Giovanni with an intentness that seemed to bring out whatever was within him worthy of notice.†   (source)
  • With this salutation Mr Squeers patted the heads of two hollow-eyed, small-boned little boys, whom the applicant had brought with him, and waited for further communications.†   (source)
  • Seeing this, as he exchanged the usual salutations, Clennam decided to speak to his mother without postponement.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wickham, after a few moments, touched his hat—a salutation which Mr. Darcy just deigned to return.†   (source)
  • When they issued from beneath its concealment, they found the scout awaiting their appearance nigh by, and the only salutation between them was the significant gesture for silence, made by their sagacious leader.†   (source)
  • It was at this critical instant that Hist spoke to Judith in a low voice, placed some small object unseen in her hand, and then turned to meet the salutations of the Huron girls, with whom she was personally a great favorite.†   (source)
  • The sentries of all arms salute her wherever she makes her appearance, and she touches her hat gravely to their salutation.†   (source)
  • He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation.†   (source)
  • "Well, how do you go on?" and "What have you settled?" and "Oh! we can do nothing without you," followed the first salutations; and Henry Crawford was soon seated with the other three at the table, while his sister made her way to Lady Bertram, and with pleasant attention was complimenting her.†   (source)
  • But no formal salutation was exchanged.†   (source)
  • They had begun the morning with an indifferent salutation, and both had rejoiced in being aloof from each other, like a patient who has actually done without his opium, in spite of former failures in resolution.†   (source)
  • "It is her own perversity, 'Duke," cried the disappointed sheriff, who felt the loss of the first salutation as grievously as many a man would a much greater misfortune; "and I must say that she comes honestly by it.†   (source)
  • He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was "very glad;" but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley's salutation.†   (source)
  • Jarndyce," said Gridley with a rough sort of salutation, "you bear your wrongs more quietly than I can bear mine.†   (source)
  • Throwing his shield over his shoulder, as if to invite the confidence of the other, he made a gesture of salutation and was the first to speak.†   (source)
  • As Mabel ceased speaking, she waved her handkerchief in return to a salutation from Jasper, who kept his eyes fastened on her form until the white sails of the cutter had swept round a point, and were nearly lost behind its green fringe of leaves.†   (source)
  • 'I believe—' the young lady began, as she inclined her head with an air of some confusion, in reply to the salutation of Nicholas.†   (source)
  • A more elastic footstep entered next; and now I opened my mouth for a 'good-morning,' but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison SOTTO VOCE, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummaged a corner for a spade or shovel to dig through the drifts.†   (source)
  • "My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace," answered Isaac, with a low congee, nothing embarrassed by the Prince's salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.†   (source)
  • He was an ugly priest by torchlight; of a lowering aspect, with an overhanging brow; and as his eyes met those of Mr Dorrit, looking bareheaded out of the carriage, his lips, moving as they chaunted, seemed to threaten that important traveller; likewise the action of his hand, which was in fact his manner of returning the traveller's salutation, seemed to come in aid of that menace.†   (source)
  • She trotted forth to raise a typhoon off the cook-house, and almost on her shadow rolled in the Babu, robed as to the shoulders like a Roman emperor, jowled like Titus, bare-headed, with new patent-leather shoes, in highest condition of fat, exuding joy and salutations.†   (source)
  • If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels…†   (source)
  • She entered the room with an air more than usually ungracious, made no other reply to Elizabeth's salutation than a slight inclination of the head, and sat down without saying a word.†   (source)
  • Though I could almost have consigned her to the mercies of the wind on the topmost pinnacle of the Cathedral, without remorse, I made a virtue of necessity, and gave her a friendly salutation.†   (source)
  • But the new member was equal to the occasion, and rising, with a grateful salutation to the Chair, said in the most engaging manner, "Mr.†   (source)
  • The chief extended his arm and taking the other by the wrist, they once more exchanged friendly salutations.†   (source)
  • 'HOW do you do?' said the other gentleman, altering the emphasis, as if to give variety to the salutation.†   (source)
  • This salutation was addressed to Mr. Brownlow, who had stepped up to within a short distance of the respectable couple.†   (source)
  • When at length, in the afternoon, the Major gained admission to Amelia, instead of the cordial and affectionate greeting, to which he had been accustomed now for many a long day, he received the salutation of a curtsey, and of a little gloved hand, retracted the moment after it was accorded to him.†   (source)
  • The young Frenchman who commanded the Montcalm leaped on the taffrail; and, with that high-toned courtesy which relieves even the worst acts of his countrymen, he raised his cap and smiled a salutation as the Scud shot past.†   (source)
  • She had already uttered the name of Paul, and was beginning to speak in the hurried and eager voice with which female affection is apt to greet a friend, when, drawing back, the disappointed girl closed her salutation by coldly adding—"I did not expect, Doctor, to meet you at this unusual hour."†   (source)
  • To each individual, as he or she rode close by him, he gave a nod that was extremely good-natured and affable, but which partook largely of the virtue of equality, for not even to the ladies did he in the least vary his mode of salutation, by touching the apology for a hat that he wore, or by any other motion than the one we have mentioned.†   (source)
  • Upon the entrance of Richard (only known to him as the valorous Knight of the Fetterlock) he arose gravely, and gave him welcome by the ordinary salutation, "Waes hael", raising at the same time a goblet to his head.†   (source)
  • Mr. George laughs, and with a glance at Mr. Smallweed and a parting salutation to the scornful Judy, strides out of the parlour, clashing imaginary sabres and other metallic appurtenances as he goes.†   (source)
  • Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so, instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's.†   (source)
  • The agent arose, and having bowed to Lord Wilmore, who returned his salutation with the stiff politeness of the English, he retired.†   (source)
  • She was in hopes that the evening would afford some opportunity of bringing them together; that the whole of the visit would not pass away without enabling them to enter into something more of conversation than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his entrance.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan's intention was to go out without speaking to the worthy mercer; but the latter made so polite and friendly a salutation that his tenant felt obliged, not only to stop, but to enter into conversation with him.†   (source)
  • Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and…†   (source)
  • At this critical moment, the young hunter, who during the salutations of the parties had sat in rather sullen silence, sprang from the sleigh of Marmaduke to the heads of the refractory leaders.†   (source)
  • Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew's repeated salutations, and signed to him to take place at the lower end of the table, where, however, no one offered to make room for him.†   (source)
  • 'Gentlemen!' said Mr. Micawber, after the first salutations, 'you are friends in need, and friends indeed.†   (source)
  • Although he was accompanied by a regular interpreter, the chiefs made their salutations in a manner that dispensed with his services.†   (source)
  • Quite forgetting even his hunger in the heartiness of his salutation, John Browdie shook Nicholas by the hand again and again, slapping his palm with great violence between each shake, to add warmth to the reception.†   (source)
  • "Son of Arrius," he said, cheerily, after salutation, "I salute you for Sheik Ilderim, who requests you to mount and go to the city.†   (source)
  • She greeted her host with affectionate respect and made a shrinking, but amicable salutation to Major Dobbin, who, as her instinct assured her at once, was her enemy, and had been speaking against her; and the bustle and clatter consequent upon her arrival brought Amelia out of her room.†   (source)
  • He made his former rough salutation, which was not deficient in a certain respect, to Mr. Jarndyce, and bowing slightly to us, went downstairs to his room.†   (source)
  • But, pending the salutation, Miss Knag, who was tinged with curiosity, stepped accidentally behind the glass, and encountered the lively young lady's eye just at the very moment when she kissed the old lord; upon which the young lady, in a pouting manner, murmured something about 'an old thing,' and 'great impertinence,' and finished by darting a look of displeasure at Miss Knag, and smiling contemptuously.†   (source)
  • Sir Leicester stands to return his parting salutation, Mr. Tulkinghorn again rings, Mercury takes another flight, and Mr. Rouncewell and Rosa leave the house.†   (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)
  • But, instead of receiving their salutations with courtesy, John and his petulant attendants could not resist the temptation of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly resented by these insulted dignitaries, and produced fatal consequences to the English domination in Ireland.†   (source)
  • Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of Darmonodes' elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones.†   (source)
  • The former now held out his hand to Harry Maylie; and hearty salutations were exchanged between them.†   (source)
  • He merely bowed his head in reply to her salutation, which the two ladies returned with a patronizing air, and at the same time looking severely at the individual in the blue coat and bamboo cane who accompanied Miss Polly.†   (source)
  • the body of the Indian was hastily removed into the cave beneath, followed by the whining hounds, who missed and moaned for the look of intelligence that had always met their salutations to the chief.†   (source)
  • And Malluch, greatly delighted, gave him parting salutation, and started to ride away, but returned presently.†   (source)
  • The salutation was so well understood that Morrel, with the same expression in his eyes, placed his handkerchief to his mouth; and these two living statues, whose hearts beat so violently under their marble aspect, separated from each other by the whole length of the room, forgot themselves for a moment, or rather forgot the world in their mutual contemplation.†   (source)
  • "These, young ladies," said Mrs. Pardiggle with great volubility after the first salutations, "are my five boys.†   (source)
  • The master received their boisterous salutations with a variety of imitations from his own throat, when the dogs, probably from shame of being outdone, ceased their out— cry.†   (source)
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