Would he act like a rube on a roll or say the graceful thing?

It would have been the graceful thing to do.

Landing on one's feet was a graceful thing to do.

There were times when Theodore could do as graceful a thing as anybody.

I don't like to admit that I'm proud of my pupil when he does graceful things.

He didn't think it a graceful thing to do.

"I'm not the most graceful thing on two feet, Madame."

It pleasures a man to do graceful things for a lady, and if she's pretty, so much the better.

Let's say pulling myself from behind the wheel to get out of the car wasn't one of the most graceful things I'd ever done.

Not making a graceful thing of it, Ainson left them.