Major Andre walked from the stone house, in which he had been confined, between two of our subaltern officers, arm in arm ; the eyes of the immense multitude were fixed on him, who, rising superior to the fears of death, appeared as if conscious of the dignified deportment which he displayed.

They were often congratulated by General McNaughton for their deportment on the March Past after the monthly church parade ( services were voluntary on the other Sundays, but a soldier had to inform the Orderly Sergeant if he wanted to attend ).

Preference is given to portraits which in expression, deportment and costume, convey a very clear idea of the life, taste and colour of their period ... Next come the group of devotional pictures on a small scale, intended originally for the privacy of the home rather than public worship ... A few pictures fascinate by their narrative as the predella by Fungai or the three Cassoni as do the drawings by being preparatory studies for the more elaborate works.

There, English literature, French, Italian and German, as well as deportment, were taught.

His person was said to be deformed, and his want of mine or deportment was alleged as a disqualification for the office of Lord Chancellor.

Lieutenant-General Fleetwood, Col. Sydenham, Lord Commissioner Whitlock, Cornelius Holland, and Mr. Strickland were required to clear themselves touching their deportment in that affair.

It was not a fair trial as both his defense, and deportment at the time of defense bears out.

All this while he never left his post for a moment, and I thought I could discover a gravity in his deportment not discernible in those by which he was surrounded.

for being " the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld ; a person also of innate modesty, virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex " At the age of eighteen, during a three-week celebration at Oxford, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts.

These dramas are distinguished by their emphasis on a strong sense of style, deportment, and a witty repartee that is used to conceal the raw emotions which lie just beneath the surfaces of the dramatic lives of its characters.

Candidates were also judged on their skills of deportment, appearance, speech, and level of skill in calligraphy, all of which were subjective criteria that allowed the already wealthy members of society to be chosen over ones of more modest means who were unable to be educated in rhetoric or fanciful writing skills.

Spacey loosely based Lester's early " schlubby " deportment on Walter Matthau.

One early convert observed: “ The wisdom of their instructions, the purity of their doctrine, their Christ-like deportment, and the simplicity of their manners, all appeared truly apostolical .” The Shakers represent a small but important Utopian response to the gospel.

In contrasting the literary standards of chivalry with the actual warfare of the age, the historian finds the imitation of an ideal past illusory ; in an aristocratic culture such as Burgundy and France at the close of the Middle Ages, " to be representative of true culture means to produce by conduct, by customs, by manners, by costume, by deportment, the illusion of a heroic being, full of dignity and honour, of wisdom, and, at all events, of courtesy.

The word is also used, more about women than men, to describe a mode of dress and deportment intended not to encourage the opposite sex ; actual standards vary widely.

Modesty in dress and deportment is usually encouraged by peer pressure, although a few countries enforce rigid dress codes.

Though initially cool to the idea of a commoner queen, the Swedish press quickly warmed to Queen Silvia and soon began publishing admiring articles about how easily she fit into the country's expectations of queenly deportment.

This honor indicates that Temple City Schools are in a higher percentile in categories such as academics, deportment and other scholastic activities.

The rabbinical and Talmudical graduates of the Slobodka Yeshiva tried to live up to a higher code of dress and deportment, to the point of being accused of being dandies.

To these qualities he joined a majestic figure ; but his aspect and deportment were more suited to the part of a hero than of a lover.

In Rebecca Solomon's 1851 painting The Governess, the title figure ( seated right, with her charge ) exhibits the modest dress and deportment appropriate to her quasi-invisible role in the Victorian household.

Many of the same standard tunes are found in both the military and civilian pipe band repertoires, and many similarities exist in terms of musical style, historical and musical influences, and dress and deportment.

Brant studied under the guidance of Wheelock, who wrote that the youth was " of a sprightly genius, a manly and gentle deportment, and of a modest, courteous and benevolent temper.

In his book " 1776 " David McCullough quotes Rush, referring to George Washington: The Philadelphia physician and patriot Benjamin Rush, a staunch admirer, observed that Washington " has so much martial dignity in his deportment that you would distinguish him to be a general and a soldier from among 10, 000 people.

The Emperor is about five feet ten inches in height, and of a slender but elegant form ; his complexion is comparatively fair, though his eyes are dark ; his nose is rather aquiline, and the whole of his countenance presents a perfect regularity of feature, which, by no means, announce the great age he is said to have attained ; his person is attracting, and his deportment accompanies by an affability, which, without lessening the dignity of the prince, evinces the amiable character of the man.

He has, like so many other secular and religious culture symbols, gone over to the side of the ruling classes.

Most Amber characters are members of the two ruling classes in the Amber multiverse, and are much more advanced in matters of strength, endurance, psyche, warfare and sorcery than ordinary beings.

*# The division of mankind threatens it with destruction ... Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization ...

The metaphor of flesh being torn illustrates the length to which the ruling classes and socialites would go to further increase their wealth.

Most of England's traditional ruling classes regarded the Rump as an illegal government made up of regicides and upstarts.

Sahrawi-Moorish society in Northwest Africa was traditionally ( and still is, to some extent ) stratified into several tribal classes, with the Hassane warrior tribes ruling and extracting tribute-horma-from the subservient Znaga tribes.

While Gramsci's views argue that culture ( beliefs, perceptions and values ) allows the ruling class to maintain domination, Marx's explanation is along more economic lines, with concepts such as commodity fetishism demonstrating how the ideology of the bourgeoisie ( in this case, the existence of property as a social creation rather than an ' eternal entity ') dominate over that of the working classes.

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.

The 18th century saw the rise of the Enlightenment, a movement devoted to science and rationalism, predominantly amongst the ruling classes.

Subsequently, negotiations between the two groups allowed the remaining Gauls to settle en mass in central Anatolia and / or became integrated with the Greek ruling classes elsewhere following 279 BC.

Although educated Indians " by and large took a vicarious pleasure " in seeing the British rulers humbled, the ruling upper classes sided with the Allies.

Some Marxists, together with others on the left, view nationalism, racism ( including anti-Semitism ), and religion, as divide and conquer strategies used by the ruling classes to prevent the working class from uniting against them.

The internationalist philosophies of Bolshevism and of Marxism are based upon class struggle transcending nationalism, ethnocentrism, and religion, which are intellectual obstacles to class consciousness, because the bourgeois ruling classes manipulated said cultural status quo to politically divide the proletarian working classes.

Most people who could afford a book wanted it to be in French, since that was the common language of the ruling classes.

The Ottoman Turks ( or Osmanlı Turks ) were the Turkish-speaking population of the Ottoman Empire who formed the base of the state's military and ruling classes.

Argued that the state and the ruling class uses culture and ideology to gain the consent of the classes it rules over.

Almost uniformly, people who are darker-skinned and of indigenous descent make up the peasantry and working classes, while lighter-skinned, Spanish-descent Latin Americans are in the ruling elite.

In general the English ruling classes of the 18th century vehemently opposed republicanism, typified by the attacks on John Wilkes, and especially on the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

* partial or total expulsion of the former ruling classes from the public life at early stages of existence of each socialist state ; however, in all socialist states this policy gradually changed into the policy of " one socialist nation without classes "

The ruling classes began to differentiate themselves through forms of architecture and other cultural practices that were different from those of the subordinate laboring classes.

Mesopotamia is generally considered to be the location of the earliest civilization or complex society, meaning that it contained cities, full-time division of labor, social concentration of wealth into capital, unequal distribution of wealth, ruling classes, community ties based on residency rather than kinship, long distance trade, monumental architecture, standardized forms of art and culture, writing, and mathematics and science.

Socially, this led to the adoption of Greek practices and customs by the educated native classes in order to further themselves in public life and the ruling Macedonian class gradually adopted some of the local traditions.