Formality

Examples

• Mrs. Farebrother welcomed the guest with a lively formality and precision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Winifred advanced with odd, stately formality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was evidently relieved at finding any excuse for delaying the business formality in the library, to which his own words had referred. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Being deprived of all formality. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I shall be back in good time to-morrow--but before I go I should like that little business-formality, which I spoke of this morning, to be settled. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I was cured of that formality suddenly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The document produced at the convention is at its best nothing but a suggestive formality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The purity of her life, the formality of her notions, her ignorance of the worldevery thing was against me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I reclined my head on his shoulder, in order to talk to him with less formality. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It won't take a minute--a mere formality. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They had grown accustomed to a humanly liberating atmosphere in which formality was an instrument instead of an idol. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There appeared, however, judging by Mr. Godfrey's next words, to be one more trifling formality which it was necessary to observe. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Take this stew please in all formality and fill thy mouth with it and talk no more. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Lydia laughed, and said: Aye, that is just like your formality and discretion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• 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.

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