She felt that she was signing her own condemnation! Among the four people, therefore, who entered the Hotel Grande in the Rua do Sul there were two whose feelings were the reverse of cheerful.
But convention is stronger than the primal impulses--sometimes it triumphs over death itself--and convention was all-powerful now.

It led Iris away captive in the train of the smiling and voluble Senhora Pondillo, and it immersed Hozier in a tangle of fearsome words which turned out to be the stock in trade of a clothier.

The mere male of Maceio decks himself with gay plumage.

Philip was hard put to it before he secured some garments which did not irresistibly recall the heroes of certain musical comedies popular in England.
Coke experienced worse vicissitudes.

Even the variety and richness of a master mariner's vocabulary was taxed to its utmost resources when he was coaxed into "trying on" a short jacket apparently intended for a toreador.