 | American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) - 1886 - 1202 стор.
...remember his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion had made almost natural; chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it under his arm ; knees bent, and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor ! His dress in visiting... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1920 - 806 стор.
...march at present is more like a dabchick's." A lady has left a description of him entering a room, " knees bent, and feet on tiptoe as if afraid of a wet floor." When his feet were not swollen with the gout, they were so slender, he said, that he " could dance... | |
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He always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; chapeau bras between his 'hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor. 
