In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.
2010, (w), Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:
He chose to speak largely about Vietnam ..., and his wonderfully sonorousvoice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.
puhekieltä One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:
He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that ... he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.
1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage....