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I've never been any hand, as you know, at dancing attendance on royalty - unless it's young and female, but especially not Beastly Bert - nor do I enjoy the unsought hospitality of Society parvenus in the wilds of Yorkshire (a sort of English Texas peopled by coarse braggarts and one or two decentish slow bowlers) with nothing to do but watch horses run in the pouring rain.

Watershed 2010

Mind you, 'they may take our GARL, but they'll never take our M74 extension' would make a decentish headline.

Archive 2009-09-01 Jeff 2009

Mind you, 'they may take our GARL, but they'll never take our M74 extension' would make a decentish headline.

Did Purcell bolt too early once again? Jeff 2009

TRUE BLOOD didn't move me as much as it did you, Ed, and I thought Paquin did pretty well with what she was given, but it's decentish and could improve, but is rather heavy-handed so far.

True Blood; Fringe Ed Gorman 2008

The LPO and Philharmonia share a residency at the RFH and get decentish government money at the next level down.

Archive 2005-02-01 Jessica 2005

The LPO and Philharmonia share a residency at the RFH and get decentish government money at the next level down.

Underdog schmunderdog Jessica 2005

Two hundred decentish, rather subdued-looking people were sitting packed on long wooden benches.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

I've never been any hand, as you know, at dancing attendance on royalty - unless it's young and female, but especially not Beastly Bert - nor do I enjoy the unsought hospitality of Society parvenus in the wilds of Yorkshire (a sort of English Texas peopled by coarse braggarts and one or two decentish slow bowlers) with nothing to do but watch horses run in the pouring rain.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

They were about to compel a decentish sort of man, who did the business of Chancery as well as such business can be done under the present system, to retire upon half allowance, in order to make room for one Sir William Fullhat, who had no objection to £14,000 a year and a peerage.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various

(The summary is the author's, not mine.) (1) The decentish code of morals which prevails in this twentieth century is the outcome of all the human ages.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen