"Curtsy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made a curtsy, and Mary Louise continued on her way, and by and by, after a while, she came to a great big bear sitting on a stone by the roadside. On the ground by his side was a big bundle tied with a ...
— The Iceberg Express • David Magie Cory
... pulled the gate towards herself and, crushed behind it, curtsied to Thomas Batchgrew. This curtsy, the most servile of all Western salutations, and now nearly unknown in Five Towns, consisted in a momentary shortening of the stature by six inches, and in nothing else. Mrs. Tams had acquired it in her native village of ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... each with his bow or her curtsy. Mammy paused a moment to deliver her pronunciamento. "Don' you fret, marster! I ain' gwine let er soul tech one er my chillern!" Julius followed her. "Dat's so, marster! An' Gawd Ermoughty knows I'se gwine always prohibit jes' de same care ob de ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... bobbed her curtsy. Was this the man she was to be so dreadfully afraid of? Her whole charming little face ...
— Sue, A Little Heroine • L. T. Meade
... went to the door. He met the landlady just entering with a basket of eggs in her hand. She dropped him a curtsy. ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
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