1 Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.
2 During the interlude of music which succeeded the TABLEAUX, the actors had seated themselves here and there in the audience, diversifying its conventional appearance by the varied picturesqueness of their dress.
3 It was not that she had, in the conventional sense, any doubt of Mrs. Hatch's irreproachableness.
4 Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances.
5 Think how much better you can criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
6 Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.
7 But Lena had picked up all the conventional expressions she heard at Mrs. Thomas's dressmaking shop.
8 Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type.
9 He possessed a good figure, a pleasing face, not overburdened with depth of thought or feeling; and his dress was that of the conventional man of fashion.
10 She draped it across the boy in graceful folds, and in a way to conceal his black, conventional evening dress.
11 And Jurgis looked the fellow squarely in the eye, and so the fellow wasted no time in conventional protests, but read him the deed.
12 He well knew that the authority of an Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 13 The officer's profanity sounded conventional.
14 The men there seemed to be in conventional moods, altogether unaware of the impending annihilation.
15 But angry honesty made a 'bad man' of him, and mealy-mouthedness made a 'nice woman' of her, in the vicious, conventional channelling of sympathy by Mrs Bolton.