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verb

Deport v. t. (past & past part. deported; pres. part. deporting)

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment; to expel (from a region or country). "He told us he had been deported to Spain."

To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; followed by the reflexive pronoun. "Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince."

noun

Deport n. Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. (Obs.) "Goddesslike deport."

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"Deport" Quotes from Famous Books

... stage. I remember well my anxious and agitated state of mind while waiting at the hotel for the arrival of the stage. I had never ridden in one, I am not sure that I had even seen one, and I did not know just what was expected of me, or just how I should deport myself. An untraveled farm boy at seventeen is such a vague creature anyway, and I was, in addition, such a bundle of sensibilities, timidities, and embarrassments as few farm boys are. I paid my fare at the hotel at the rate of a sixpence a mile for about thirty-two miles, and when ...

— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... nose above my chin if I failed to behave properly. Grannie remarked that I might have the spirit of an Australian, but I had by no means the manners of a lady; while aunt Helen ventured a wish that I might expend all my superfluous spirits on the way, so that I would be enabled to deport myself with a little decorum when arrived ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... the events of past ages, while others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. Some teach me how to live, and others how to die. Some, by their vivacity, drive away my cares and exhilarate my spirits; while others give fortitude to my mind, and teach me the important lesson how to deport myself, and to depend wholly on myself. They open to me, in short, the various avenues of all the arts and sciences and upon their information I may safely rely in all emergencies. In return for all their services, they only ask me to ...

— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson

... a half-hearted effort to arrest and deport aliens, it could at least not be accused of letting the Sedition Act remain a dead letter. Some unnecessary and thoroughly unwise prosecutions in the year 1799 were followed by a series of trials for seditious libel in the spring term of the federal ...

— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

... feared, instead of the fellows he had shunned whenever they sought to provoke him. Even now, although baseball was a gentle game in comparison with football, he was not absolutely sure he could always deport himself as a gentleman and a sportsman while ...

— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott

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