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• She seemed to have lost her deference. (8)
• His immediate deference made her regretful. (10)
• No one paid him any deference save the princess. (10)
• The director received us with the utmost deference. (9)
• He bent, as though in deference to those unspoken memories. (8)
• A few of them limped unsoldierly in deference to blistered feet. (7)
• She spoke well; better than he, and she won his deference by it. (10)
• He let his voice drop a little, as if in deference to my scruples. (8)
• That day had been to the ladies a lesson of deference to opinion. (10)
• In deference to her maidenly understanding, she gazed inquiringly. (10)
• The waiter, lean in the chaps, pervaded with such free-masonical deference. (8)
• In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference. (1)
• Every day Mr. Pollingray puts on evening dress out of deference to his sister. (10)
• He was equally active with his pen in deference to the new artistic principles. (3)
• The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. (4)
• If it is a merit to treat a fatuous mother with deference, Bittridge had that merit. (9)
• An Englishman was everywhere treated with a certain deference: Americans were at best tolerated. (14)
• They were arguing: angrily, it was true: yet with the first mutual deference of practised logicians. (10)
• On foot, from necessity or in deference to his dismounted commander or associates, his conduct was the same. (1)
• As to the first, no writer ever refrained out of deference to it from criticising, or even discharging, his cook. (16)
• And, in spite of himself, James felt the influence of her deference, of the faint seductive perfume exhaling from her. (8)
• I did not pretend an original right to them, coming so late as I did to the place, and I think my deference pleased him. (9)
• She was treated with profound and sincere deference, because of certain humble virtues, the product of her secluded life. (7)
• In that matter, his natural delicacy and his deference to Percy had always checked him from sounding the subject closely. (10)
• In that matter, his natural delicacy and his deference to Percy had always checked him from sounding the subject closely. (22)
• An attitude of hostility to aristocracy because it was aristocracy, was as incomprehensible to him as an attitude of deference. (8)
• The beautiful concision of style in this document gave Algernon a feeling of profound deference toward the law and its officers. (10)
• The beautiful concision of style in this document gave Algernon a feeling of profound deference toward the law and its officers. (22)
• I assure you, that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow, in comparison with myself, I should not pay him half so much deference. (4)
• He comported himself with absolute, with kindly deference to the lady whose more than vital spark he let the gossips puff at and blur. (10)
• It was mighty pretty, as Pepys would say, to see the delicate deference Clemens paid our plain hero, and the manly respect with which he listened. (9)
• The compressed energy of the man under his conscious display of a great-minded deference to the claims of family ties and duties, intoxicated him. (10)
• He is escorted with great deference to the dressing-room, received by the performers with keen anticipatory delight and ostentatiously welcomed to their ranks. (21)
• Elizabeth was chiefly struck by his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required. (4)

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