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291 examples of Manners in a sentence

He wished to enlarge their horizon, to raise them to the comfort and good manners of the middle class, by making them masters; but how long it would take! and he no longer felt the courage to await victory, in this prison of hunger.
"Did master sleep well?"Conseil asked me with his perennial good manners.
She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.
It was the same on the following days; her talks, her manners, everything changed.
By the mere effect of her love Madame Bovary's manners changed.
Emma was stamping her feet as she repeated—"Oh! what manners!
Madame de Renal had soon forgiven him his extreme ignorance, which was an additional charm, and the roughness of his manners, which she succeeded in improving.
'This pretty youth has very bad manners!' she thought; the worldly-wisdom of a provincial capital can never pardon mistakes of this sort.
His heart was divided between the ambition aroused by the Bishop's youthfulness, and the sensibility and exquisite manners of this prelate.
'The more one rises towards the highest rank of society,' thought Julien, 'the more one finds these charming manners.'
But how can I have inspired such love, I, so poor, so ill-bred, so ignorant, often so rude in my manners?'
This was too much for Julien; he had acquired the manners but had not yet the heart appropriate to his station.
He was amazed by the sweetness of their voices, the simplicity and nobility of their manners; he required to wash his imagination clean of all the vulgar behaviour, all the unpleasant thoughts the atmosphere of which he had to breathe at Verrieres.
The manners of these men annoyed M. de Renal.
Signor Geronimo did not go to bed until two in the morning, leaving the family enchanted with his good manners, his obliging nature and his gay spirits.
Amanda observed his courage; it formed a charming contrast with the simplicity of his manners; in an instant, she preferred him to the big young man in the long coat.
'The awkward manners of this young cleric may perhaps be concealing a learned man,' the Academician, who was sitting near her, said to the Marquise; and Julien overheard something of what he was saying.
This young gentleman was going out riding, and was somewhat embarrassed, for his manners were perfect.
Despite good tone, perfect manners, the desire to be agreeable, boredom was written upon every brow.
Julien after being guilty once or twice of a breach of good manners, had pledged himself never to address another word to Mademoiselle Mathilde.
He was so much impressed by M. de Beauvoisis's gentle manners, by his air at once formal, important and self-satisfied, by the admirable elegance of his surroundings, that in a twinkling all thought of being insolent forsook him.
Never had Julien seen combined in a single person the absurdity which keeps one amused and the perfection of manners which a poor provincial must seek to copy.
Look at Croisenois who hopes to marry me; he is nice and polite, he has perfect manners like M. de Rouvray.
Travels of Uzeri'You are feeling cross,' the Marquise de La Mole said to her; 'I warn you, that is not good manners at a ball.''It is only a headache,' replied Mathilde contemptuously, 'it is too hot in here.'
'Politeness,' he said to himself, 'is nothing more than the absence of the irritation which would come from bad manners.'
'These fine Paris manners have found out the secret of spoiling everything, even love,' he said to himself with an extreme disregard of justice.
I must be wanting in elegance in my manners, my way of speaking must be heavy and monotonous.
He's not very pleasant personally, I grant you, his manners are terrible and he's dirty, but as far as the trial's concerned he's quite immaculate.'
The former was laid in a foreign country; and the latter embraced a crude effort to describe foreign manners.
There was no part of the continent where the manners of England and its aristocratical notions of blood and alliances, prevailed with more force than in a certain circle immediately around the metropolis of New York.
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