2012年3月29日 星期四

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Mar 30th 2012, 05:22

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#* '''1900''', [[w:Charles W. Chesnutt|Charles W. Chesnutt]], ''The House Behind the Cedars'', Chapter I,
 
#* '''1900''', [[w:Charles W. Chesnutt|Charles W. Chesnutt]], ''The House Behind the Cedars'', Chapter I,
 
#*: The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the '''air''' of one thoroughly at home.
 
#*: The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the '''air''' of one thoroughly at home.
# {{obsolete}} A sense of [[poise]], [[graciousness]], or [[quality]].
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# A sense of [[poise]], [[graciousness]], or [[quality]].
 
#* '''1815''', Jane Austen, ''Emma'', [[s:Emma/Volume 1/Chapter 4|Volume I, Chapter 4]]:
 
#* '''1815''', Jane Austen, ''Emma'', [[s:Emma/Volume 1/Chapter 4|Volume I, Chapter 4]]:
 
#*: "He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without '''air'''. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
 
#*: "He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without '''air'''. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."

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