Formalities

Examples

• Shirley never laughed at her former governess; even the little formalities and harmless peculiarities of that lady were respectable in her eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such formalities as are required to be observed in so doing, may be known on application to the proper branch of that Department. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We would have to be married under Italian law and the formalities were terrific. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Herbert would also take a sheet of paper, and write across it with similar formalities, Memorandum of Herbert's debts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The ceremonies which follow later are but meaningless formalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Cos it must be proved, and probated, and swore to, and all manner o' formalities. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There were few formalities observed in approaching the Martian chieftain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• There were no formalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There are one or two small things--mere formalities--which I must arrange with you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No formalities were to retard our progress until a position was secured when the time could be spared to observe them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As I had anticipated, no one was present to prosecute the case against me--the necessary formalities were observed, and I was discharged. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They performed the formalities of the occasion briefly, intelligently, conscientiously. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He has promised that there shall be no trouble--but of course the formalities must be gone through. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typist: Vance