Behaved in a sentence

Oh, I assure you I behaved quite nicely.

I never knew a man who behaved like you do.

I'd heard something about her that made me wild, and I came and behaved like a fool.

Mrs. Baker (relict, it was understood, of a military officer who had fallen in Eastern warfare) behaved to the young ladies with much friendliness.

She, delighted with the success of her stratagem, and careless of what might result from it, behaved more companionably.

Yet, if that were his disposition, he concealed it perfectly; no one could have behaved with more finished courtesy.

Anxious to conciliate the girl in every honest way, Mary behaved to her with the same external respect as ever, and without a hint of express guardianship.

You, Beatrice, said it was about time I behaved like a man.

I'm sorry I behaved in that way when you talked of coming to Falmouth; it wasn't meant as you seem to think.

You've behaved disgracefully yourself -oh!

So far from seeking to impress her visitor with a pose of social superiority, she behaved to him as though his presence honoured as much as it delighted her; look, tone, bearing, each was a flattery which no obtuseness could fail to apprehend, and Crewe's countenance proved him anything but inappreciative.

On his admittance, Tarrant sat alone for nearly five minutes in a pretentiously furnished room-just the room in which he had expected to find Nancy's relative; the delay and the surroundings exasperated his nervous mood, so that, when the lady entered, he behaved with slighter courtesy than became his breeding.

All the old troubles were revived; from morning to night the house rang with brawls between mistress and servants; in the paroxysms favoured by her physical condition, Ada behaved like a candidate for Bedlam, and more than once obliged her husband to seek temporary peace in lodgings.

I behaved wickedly, I deserted my little children.

He looked so ill, and behaved with such lack of self-restraint, that Nancy kept her eyes upon him in an awestricken gaze, as though watching some one on the headlong way to destruction.

We lived there at a boardinghouse, and she behaved badly, very badly.

In the pursuit of an ideal which I fear you cannot understand, I subdue my pride, and confess how basely I behaved to you.

This ideal Shakespear was too well behaved to get drunk; therefore the tradition that his death was hastened by a drinking bout with Jonson and Drayton must be rejected, and the remorse of Cassio treated as a thing observed, not experienced: nay, the disgust of Hamlet at the drinking customs of Denmark is taken to establish Shakespear as the superior of Alexander in self-control, and the greatest of teetotallers.

Officers and men behaved with perfect coolness.

The members of the detachment behaved with the utmost coolness, all working together to remove these obstructions, and not a man sought shelter, although a dropping fire was striking around the detachment, from some source.