Example Sentences

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His debonairness reminded me of Gaston Cheverny’s, at the same age, for the young Austrian was little past 276 twenty.

From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot

I believe so, said I. - Then I’ll go to the Duke, by heaven! with all the gaiety and debonairness in the world.

From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Sterne, Laurence

To Him thou art turned, when His grace illumines thine heart; and forsakes all vices, and conforms it to virtues and good manners, and to all manner of compliance and debonairness.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma