Manner
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2255 examples of Manner in a sentence
Conseil, whom I hadn't alerted, mistook it at first for a gigantic sea snake and was gearing up to classify it in his best
manner.
Oval, stiffened with whalebone, it began with three round knobs; then came in succession lozenges of velvet and rabbit-skin separated by a red band; after that a sort of bag that ended in a cardboard polygon covered with complicated braiding, from which hung, at the end of a long thin cord, small twisted gold threads in the
manner
of a tassel.
In their unconcerned looks was the calm of passions daily satiated, and through all their gentleness of
manner
pierced that peculiar brutality, the result of a command of half-easy things, in which force is exercised and vanity amused—the management of thoroughbred horses and the society of loose women.
As he grew older his
manner
grew heavier; at dessert he cut the corks of the empty bottles; after eating he cleaned his teeth with his tongue; in taking soup he made a gurgling noise with every spoonful; and, as he was getting fatter, the puffed-out cheeks seemed to push the eyes, always small, up to the temples.
The latter, entirely absorbed by his business, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles and red whiskers over a white cravat, understood nothing of mental refinements, although he affected a stiff English manner, which in the beginning had impressed the clerk.
He talked aroma, osmazome, juices, and gelatine in a bewildering
manner.
To him she stood outside those fleshly attributes from which he had nothing to obtain, and in his heart she rose ever, and became farther removed from him after the magnificent
manner
of an apotheosis that is taking wing.
Indeed he pronounced these words in a strange manner:"We are not likely to see Monsieur Rodolphe soon again, it seems."
There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the
manner
of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.
He had drawn his hat over his eyes, and, with his hands behind his back, smiling and whistling, he looked straight at her in an unbearable
manner.
She went on in a tender, suppliant
manner.
He smiled without ceasing in an approving
manner.
For my part, I have only one fault to find with the _Cours de la Fidelite_; one reads this, its official title, in fifteen or twenty places, on marble slabs which have won M. de Renal yet another Cross; what I should be inclined to condemn in the Cours de la Fidelite is the barbarous
manner
in which the authorities keep these sturdy plane trees trimmed and pollarded.
He noticed Madame de Renal's frigid manner, and gathered that she was angry because he had ventured to kiss her hand.
She took his arm and leaned on it in a
manner
which Julien thought strange.
'That,' he said to himself, 'is what rich people are like: they humiliate one, and then think they can put things right by a few monkey-tricks.'Madame de Renal's heart was too full, and as yet too innocent for her, notwithstanding the resolutions she had made, not to tell her husband of the offer she had made to Julien and the
manner
in which she had been repulsed.
M. Chelan detected in his
manner
a fire that was wholly mundane, and very different from that which should have inspired a young Levite.
She made the girl repeat to her several times the assurance that Julien had refused in a positive manner, which would not permit of his coming to a more reasonable decision later on.
He noticed suddenly that Madame de Renal was leaning upon his arm in a marked manner; this action horrified him, he repulsed her violently, freeing his arm from hers.
Julien changed colour; he looked at Madame de Renal in an odd manner, and presently drew her apart, so to speak, by increasing his pace.
I have the honour to inform you that I shall be absent for some hours.''Ah, my dear Julien,' said M. de Renal, laughing in the most insincere manner, 'the whole day, if you wish, the whole of tomorrow, my worthy friend.
There was some hesitation shown, but finally the hand was withdrawn from him in a
manner
which betokened displeasure.
Madame de Renal's cold
manner
persisted for some time, and seemed to Julien to be marked.
'I shall manage to adopt the right manner,' he told the Mayor.
'Thank heaven,' said M. de Renal at other moments, 'I have no daughter, and the
manner
in which I am going to punish their mother will not damage the careers of my children; I can surprise that young peasant with my wife, and kill the pair of them; in that event, the tragic outcome of my misfortune may perhaps make it less absurd.'
They were already on the landing, and the poor tutor, on the verge of disgrace, was ushering out with all due respect the future Prefect of some fortunate Department, when it pleased the latter gentleman to occupy himself with Julien's career, to praise his moderation where his own interests were concerned, etc., etc.Finally M. de Maugiron, taking him in his arms in the most fatherly manner, suggested to him that he should leave M. de Renal and enter the household of an official who had children to educate, and who, like King Philip, would thank heaven, not so much for having given him them as for having caused them to be born in the neighbourhood of M. Julien.
When his wife praised the graceful and witty
manner
in which Julien imparted fresh ideas to his pupils:'Yes, yes, I know, he is making me odious to my children; it is very easy for him to be a hundred times pleasanter to them than I, who am, after all, the master.
Unhappy France!'Madame de Renal did not stop to examine the implications of her husband's
manner.
Julien found himself greeted by the Director in the
manner
which had so frightened him on the day of his joining the Seminary.
Julien answered the questions in a brilliant manner; he saw that Chazel himself was seeking to display the whole extent of his knowledge.
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