Usages

As Mrs. John Sherwood wrote in Manners and Social Usages in 1884, “If one did not mourn well, that is if one did not display grief in every acceptable mode, this demonstrated a lack of respect for the deceased… to go to the opera, or a dinner or a party, before six months have elapsed, is considered heartless and disrespectful.”

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

Her manual on how to behave in modern society, "Usages du monde: Règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne," brought out in 1889, became a best seller.

A Nation Holding Out for a Hero Lennox Morrison 2011

As Mrs. John Sherwood wrote in Manners and Social Usages in 1884, “If one did not mourn well, that is if one did not display grief in every acceptable mode, this demonstrated a lack of respect for the deceased… to go to the opera, or a dinner or a party, before six months have elapsed, is considered heartless and disrespectful.”

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

On August 14, 1947, Ilse Koch, guilty of participating in a “common plan” to violate “the Laws and Usages of War” during her tenure as Kommandeuse of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, stood before the court in a frumpy checkered dress and was sentenced to life in prison.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

Usages that today seem anachonistic then continued side by side, sometimes for long periods.

Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

This book is classified into four volumes - Worship, Worldly Usages, Destructive Evils, and Constructive Virtues.

Imam Ghazzali's Ihya Ulum-Din (The Book of Worship), Volumes I-IV JDsg 2006

This book is classified into four volumes - Worship, Worldly Usages, Destructive Evils, and Constructive Virtues.

Archive 2006-05-01 JDsg 2006

Government, Usages, and Character of the Inhabitants of that

Bibliography - Critical Apparatus 2005

Of the Hed of Seynt John the Baptist; and of the Usages of the

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Of the Day of Doom; and of the Customes of Jacobites, Surryenes; and of the Usages of

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004