Demure Women
Soft, Fragrant, Short With Small Feet & Hands Connie Riker. Demure. Women. Soft, Fragrant, Short With Small Feet & Hands Copyright © 2025 by Connie Riker. Published by Connie Riker All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be ...
The Demure Debutante
Caylen McQueen. The DEMURE DEBUTANTE CAYLEN McQUEEN The Demure Debutante Timid Regency Siblings, Volume 2 Caylen McQueen. Front Cover.
The Demure Miss Manning
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The Yale Courant
... demure . Unchanging always , always near , Smiling , demure , Though new friends come and old friends go , Mid laughter gay or fancied woe , Thy comradeship will e'er endure , Smiling , demure . Thy face , ' tis true , is turned ...
Assorted Articles
... demure and the dauntless . Men have loved to dwell , in fiction at least , on the demure maiden whose inevitable reply is : Oh , yes , if you please , kind sir ! The demure maiden , the demure spouse , the demure mother - this is still ...
Pejorative Sense Development in English
... Demure < O. Fr. demurer , ' to stay ' , had originally no ironical subaudition . The oldest meaning was ' quiet ... demure and temperate . Faery Queene I , 10 , 12 . Il Penseroso , 31 . " Come pensive nun , devout and pure , Sober ...
Academy, with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review
... demure is much commoner than mure and is recorded much earlier ( demure , 1377 , mure , 1440 ) . The latter factor may , of course , be an accident . ( iii ) The oldest meaning of demure is " calm , settled , still " ( N.E.D. ) , and in ...
The Academy
... demure is much commoner than mure and is recorded much earlier ( demure , 1377 , mure , 1440 ) . The latter factor may , of course , be an accident . ( iii ) The oldest meaning of demure is " calm , settled , still " ( N.E.D. ) , and in ...
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
... demure , shy , dark hair , brown eyes , probably frightened by the noise and all that . " " Answers to the name of Mrs. Barrett ? " I suggested , as the horses broke into a trot . " No ! no ! no ! " he yelled after me . " Travelling ...
Beauty on ice
... Demure . " What art , " she asked , " what magic can allure You to this creature that your queen's behest Is disobeyed ? Does it with guile invest , And promise that which more of pleasure gives , Than is the certain share of one who ...
A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present
... demure- ness of life , if so be they will but now come in and close with this high and rich dispensation . - Id . , Grand Mystery of Godliness , b . viii . c . 5 . She is so nice and so demure , So sober , courteous , modest , and ...
The Romance of Words
... Demure has been explained as from Mid . Eng . mure , ripe , mature , with prefixed de . But demure is the older word of the two , and while the loss of the atonic first syllable is normal in English ( p . 53 ) , it would be hard to find ...
Jennie of "the Prince's"
... demure . " " Demure ? " said Florence , smiling . called me a demure puss . " " He often " You're a dear old pet , " said Jennie , raising her- self on her knees , and kissing the tiny pink ears . " Why , Jennie , you're a perfect witch ...
On the Study of Words
... Demure ' veyed no hint , as it does now , of an over - doing of the outward demonstrations of modesty . ‡ con- * [ ' Many , ' i.e. Mid . - Eng . mainee , O. Fr. maisnie , a family or household ; Low . Lat . mansionata , the contents of ...
Memories of Westminister Hall: Legal history of Westminster hall, by Edward Foss
... demure faces are chiefly confined to briefless barristers in the Court of Chancery it is otherwise . There demure faces are universal . the Lord Chancellor himself , down to the most recently admitted of the junior counsel , there is ...
Memoirs of a Great Detective
... DEMURE KATE PENDER OF EMSDALE MANY a country town in Canada boasts , among the other triumphs of its civilisation , an elaborate millinery store . The village of ... DEMURE KATE PENDER OF EMSDALE 437 LXXII Demure Kate Pender of Emsdale.
Memories of Westminster Hall
... demure faces are chiefly confined to briefless barristers in the Court of Chancery it is otherwise . There demure faces are universal . the Lord Chancellor himself , down to the most recently admitted of the junior counsel , there is ...
Memories of Westminister Hall
... demure faces are chiefly confined to briefless barristers - in the Court of Chancery it is otherwise . There demure faces are universal . the Lord Chancellor himself , down to the most recently admitted of the junior counsel , there is ...
Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
... Demure came at him his rider was not powerful enough to get him to do his ut- most . With Baltinglass palpably beaten , Wuffy became the possible danger to Demure . It was not until the Bushes were well passed that it was recognised ...