Behave

Usage examples of comport.

He is a little man and no more than a boy, but he comports himself with Apollonian dignity.

But then Griselda Grantly probably know much better than Lucy did how to comport herself in such a situation.

I swear that if she does not comport herself with the utmost obedience to you in every respect, I will send her packing, in despite of our relations.

How should I comport myself if he suggested our climbing over to the back seat?

She had then decided that, whatever impossible social situations her son might prepare for her, she would comport herself with dignity and according to the rules of etiquette which she recognized.

They just point to how a man should attempt to comport himself in various circumstances.

His honest, open features were burnt to a bright red, that comported well with the notion of exposure and hardships, while his sinewy hands denoted force, and a species of use removed from the stiffening and deforming effects of labor.

His mood comported with the aspect of sky and earth, and weariness, the fast ally of despondency, aided in giving a leaden hue to the future and a leaden weight, to his thoughts.

They comported with the shadowy hall, the great oaken gallery, and the tapestried parlor, but are unfitted to the light showy saloons and gay drawing-rooms of the modern villa.

The dozen or so people in the room appeared to be comporting themselves in an orderly fashion.

He mooned about the links by himself, playing a shocking game, and generally comported himself like a man who has looked for the escape of gas with a lighted candle.

After one silent glance at the hens' eggs with their curious jacket of caramelised skillet flakes, she ignored the glass comport on which they nestled.

He broke off to stare glumly at his rival, who sported a chestful of medals that blinked in different colors, and who was holding forth self-importantly to a captive audience of Rubinstein and some of the bigger diplomatic guns, comporting himself as if he were the equal or superior of the ambassadors from the older civilizations of Alpha Centauri and Tau Ceti.

They bore me to a banquet in honor of a brave lieutenant -- Carlin, of the "Vandalia" -- who stuck by his ship in the great cyclone at Apia and comported himself as an officer should.

Woodseer comported himself like a veteran: he had proved that you can calculate the chances.