"Mannerly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a mannerly forbearance: The truth appears so naked on my side That any purblind eye ...
— King Henry VI, First Part • William Shakespeare [Aldus edition]
... is much "dressed up" and can take time to play that she is an agreeable hostess, all children, whether little aristocrats or arabs, enter into the civilized spirit of the occasion and become more mannerly. ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... as having something gentle and downcast in his looks; but then he could not better himself, for the poor youth had not a word to throw at a dog. Now Jin Vin was so full of his jibes and jeers, and so willing, and so ready, and so serviceable, and so mannerly all the while, with a step that sprung like a buck's in Epping Forest, and his eye that twinkled as black as a gipsy's, that no woman who knew the world would make a comparison betwixt the lads. As for poor neighbour ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott |
