"Demean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; do &c 680; officiate &c 625. bear oneself, behave oneself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry oneself, conduct oneself, acquit oneself. run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course; steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards, shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Our opponents furthermore demean themselves as though to-day one of the greatest pleasures of parents was to have their children about them all day long, and to educate them. It is just the reverse in reality. What hardships and cares are to-day caused by the education of a child, even when a family has but ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel
... the wife, "do not you demean yourself by naming witnesses along with justices and constables. All the world knows how they come ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... said the doctor, smiling pleasantly. "A man who can't mend a hole in his own donkey can never demean himself by patching up my ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... attired, and to despise every restraint, even of ordinary ceremony, were a privilege of the sovereign alone. Yet when it pleased him to assume state in person and manners, none knew better than Charles of Burgundy how he ought to adorn and demean himself. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 373, Supplementary Number • Various
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