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Meanings of too demonstrative in English

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Usage of too demonstrative in English
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And she had been exquisitely gentle and not too demonstrative.
Halcyone
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They are seated down the centre aisle; but the place is too demonstrative of their poverty.
Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
3
A lady should not be too demonstrative of her affection during the days of her engagement.
Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most R...
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They gathered round her, eager to show their love, and yet fearing to be too demonstrative.
Amos Huntingdon
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The officers had been called in to overawe the college lads in case they became too demonstrative.
Frank Merriwell's Races
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A soul (in Jewdwine's opinion) a trifle too demonstrative in its hospitality to vagrant impressions.
The Divine Fire
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Also, I mused upon the extraordinary tolerance she accorded to the sad-faced but too demonstrative Mr. Barker.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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Yet he was not too demonstrative.
Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds
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His perfect self-possession, when some of the company became a little too demonstrative, kept the table in perfect order.
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
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Mr. Martin is a barrister, a gentleman whose face and manners suited me at once; a simple, refined, sincere, not too demonstrative person.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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My father was exceptionally loving and kind-hearted, but he never made a fuss, while my English blood kept me from being too demonstrative.
At the Point of the Sword
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I do: I am now in that unenviable frame of mind; my humour, I think, is too soon over-thrown, too sore, too demonstrative and vehement.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
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You tell while I go for it; and Jack bolted, as if afraid the young ladies might be too demonstrative when the tale was told.
Jack and Jill
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Let him take the fate of the recognized leader of his race, Fred Douglass, as an example, and steer clear of his too demonstrative friends.
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point / Autobiog...
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It is before the battle, the "salut," when no hasty word or too demonstrative action can be suffered by the canons of good taste.
Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales
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"And if he becomes too demonstrative," says the Brat, overtaking me with a rush before I reach it, "say-
Nancy: A Novel
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