Then, using soft words of a courtly speech but half-intelligible to Pornos: "It would seem that I have gone astray.

"I have long aspired to your radiant daughter's hand," said David, who knew that Saul, having once been an unlettered farmer, delighted in courtly speeches.

Such courtly speech from you goes against nature.

It may not be a courtly speech or it may.

The President of the Stock Exchange, Samuel Norton, made us a brief, courtly speech.

That was a courtly speech.

As adept as I was at becoming at courtly speech, there were things which I felt were best said in the vernacular.

But after all the fine manners and courtly speech, it came like a savage beast breaking in among people who were afraid of it.

He was taught courtly speech, singing and to play the flute.

"We had thought to try in Edinburgh-" the old gentleman said, his speech slow and courtly, with a soft Highland lilt.