comme-il-faut

• “La société est très comme-il-faut, et on ne donne rien au garçon.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841

• “It harmonises with the point of view revealed in the "Letters from Sebastopol" (especially in the second and third series), and shows, like them, the change effected by the realities of war in the intolerant young aristocrat, who previously excluded all but the comme-il-faut from his consideration.”

  Forged Coupon And Other Stories

• “England I was told that there were two things which an Englishman who was _comme-il-faut_ never did.”

  Anna the Adventuress

• “Sa femme est bonne, et si simple que j'ai rarement vu un comme-il-faut plus acheve sans etre de la distinction.”

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

• “He praised both his aunts for their good management of a small income, for the position they had been able to retain in society, and particularly for their lady-like manners and good breeding; explaining sometimes that I should probably find it different in some respects from French comme-il-faut, and mentioning in what particulars.”

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

• “He praised both his aunts for their good management of a small income, for the position they had been able to retain in society, and particularly for their lady-like manners and good breeding; explaining sometimes that I should probably find it different in some respects from French _comme-il-faut_, and mentioning in what particulars.”

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894

• “Sa femme est bonne, et si simple que j'ai rarement vu un comme-il-faut plus achevé sans être de la distinction.”

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894

• “You know she was as ingenious as a Yankee, and had the admirable faculty of doing every thing comme-il-faut.”

  Jamie Parker, the Fugitive

• “He complimented them upon being seen at church; again he said that every _comme-il-faut_ person made a point of attending the”

  The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

• “The world of wits, the _gens comme-il-faut_, which I lately left, and in which I never again will intimately mix -- from that port,”

  The Letters of Robert Burns

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