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"Well-conducted" Quotes from Famous Books

... watch over the city in a quiet and unobtrusive fashion, why did he blazon himself all over with all the stars of the sky, and profess to give public lectures on all the subjects of the world? Every wise and well-conducted student of murder stories is acquainted with the notion of a policeman in plain clothes. But nobody could possibly say that this gentleman was in plain clothes. Why not wear his uniform, if he was resolved to show every stranger in the street his badge? Perhaps after ...

— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton

... old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks ...

— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... "as we are going to a very regular and well-conducted establishment, I think it is a good opportunity for me to say a few words to you as regards ...

— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville

... but bound up my wound, and, like the well-conducted person of the ballad, went on cutting bread-and-butter. ...

— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

... jugular veins lie at either side, but, where these are regular in their distribution, do not practically interfere in a well-conducted operation. ...

— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

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