Cecil was more than
presentable; he looked distinguished, and it was very pleasant to see his slim figure keeping step with Lucy, and his long, fair face responding when Lucy spoke to him.
In Boorioboola-Gha a man is
presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.
"Is he a
presentable sort of a person?" the aunt inquired.
Then, he placed his breakfast before him with great care, and said, "All right, ain't you, Aged P.?" To which the cheerful Aged replied, "All right, John, my boy, all right!" As there seemed to be a tacit understanding that the Aged was not in a
presentable state, and was therefore to be considered invisible, I made a pretence of being in complete ignorance of these proceedings.
ah!" said the Prince de Conde to Raoul, "she is
presentable enough."
One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man--whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a
presentable marketing aspect--the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as a working milker and butter maker here during six days, and on the seventh as a man in shining broad-cloth in his family pew at church, being so marked as to have inspired a rhyme-
For two days his eminence had been exerting his utmost efforts to lick these Flemish bears into shape, and to render them a little more
presentable to the public, and this freak was startling.
Behind him came D'Arnot, clothed in some garments which had been discarded at the cabin by Clayton when the officers of the French cruiser had fitted him out in more
presentable fashion.
Vain and ambitious almost to morbidness, he had had much to put up with in the last two months, and was seeking feverishly for some means of enabling himself to lead a more
presentable kind of existence.
Its value was in the liberty it would get him, the
presentable garments it would buy him, all of which would bring him nearer, swiftly nearer, to the slender, pale girl who had turned his life back upon itself and given him inspiration.
The cover-up job was done to create a "bright and
presentable environment" for patients at the Edinburgh hospital, where children have been treated for 150 years.
The repainting, which NHS Lothian said was to create a "bright and
presentable environment" for patients, has so far cost [pounds sterling]4,311.13.
"We want to ensure that all police stations and precincts are
presentable. Even if the equipment and other materials inside the police stations are already old, the police commanders should make sure that what they have are
presentable police offices," said Eleazar.
Chief Inspector Simon Wright said police aren't happy with the techniques used by the rogue groups but revealed the evidence they provide is "
presentable for court purposes".
