Both Uses of
deport
in
Hard Times
- Seated, with her needlework or netting apparatus, at the window, she had a selflaudatory sense of correcting, by her ladylike deportment, the rude business aspect of the place.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- The spectacle of a matron of classical deportment, seizing an ancient woman by the throat, and hauling her into a dwelling-house, would have been under any circumstances, sufficient temptation to all true English stragglers so blest as to witness it, to force a way into that dwelling-house and see the matter out.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(deport as in: deport herself with dignity) behave in a certain manner