He sat down beside Whitney and, defying all the proprieties with his usual careless elegance, he put his arm around her shoulders, drawing her dose.

'Permit me to observe,' said I, 'that your shawl is not thrown on with your usual elegance.'

She was doing it with her usual spare, economical elegance, but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else.

He was dressed with his usual quiet elegance in a black coat and pantaloons, and a plain white waistcoat.

Stagiros got us up alongside a wharf with his usual elegance.

His legs were free to move with his usual elegance, in faultless dress trousers and patent-leather pumps.

But on this September 16 even Horrocks lacked the usual elegance of the impeccably dressed British staff officer.

He was wearing a pair of gym shorts and a torn T-shirt, having given up completely on his usual sartorial elegance.

Though these sculptures are minus Mr. Michael's usual elegance, they are important precedents for some recent paintings called "Fields."