"Well behaved" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a most competent director of a circus performance, the deportment of his employes was nearly perfect. Even the property men were respectable and well behaved. The performance over, a heavy set man was packing a huge trunk with horse covers and other trappings. He had repeatedly requested the others to lend a hand. Alfred assisted the man with his work until completed. In the interim Alfred advised him why he was there. The man looked the boy ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... perfectly comfortable now with my aquatic menage. The Reis is very well behaved and steady and careful, and the sort of Caliban of a sailor is a very worthy savage. Omar of course is hardworked—what with going to market, cooking, cleaning, ironing, and generally keeping everything in nice order but he won't hear of a maid of ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon
... Cadine by a young lawyer and by an artist—only two of them!—for the girl had more and more of a howling success, and he stole my sweet little girl, a perfect darling—but you must have seen her at the opera; he got her an engagement there. Your husband is not so well behaved as I am. I am ruled as straight as a sheet of music-paper. He had dropped a good deal of money on Jenny Cadine, who must have cost him near on thirty thousand francs a year. Well, I can only tell you that he is ruining himself outright ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... bit if she tears her frock. So are our cousins in England—some of them. Yes, there are some jolly girls, of course; still, after all, what's the good of them, taking them altogether? They are very nice in their way—quiet and well behaved, and so on—but they ...
— The Young Franc Tireurs - And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War • G. A. Henty
... be regretted, for boys who have not been carefully guided, rarely become gallant and well behaved young men; but we will say no more ...
— The Home in the Valley • Emilie F. Carlen
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