He greeted us with all the correct and public decorum one might expect.

Mr. Hawley's mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his "awful language," was formidable in its curtness and self-possession.

Were this true, it would not only be against public decorum, but his own interest; although I did not entertain any suspicion before.

Public decorum forbade that the queen should ostensibly accept the offer of a man who made her a widow ten weeks before.