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Example sentences for "mannerly"

Lexicographically close words:
mannerism; mannerisms; mannerist; mannerists; mannerless; manners; mannes; mannikin; mannikins; mannis
  1. Iuli: Good Pilgrime you doe wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly deuotion shewes in this: For Saints haue hands which holy Palmers touch, 75 And Palme to Palme is holy Palmers kisse.

  2. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: The truth appears so naked on my side That any purblind eye may find it out.

  3. Which I'll not call a creature of thy place, Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, Should a like language use to all degrees And mannerly distinguishment leave out Betwixt the prince and beggar.

  4. Without great people, without mannerly ways; it is sorrowful I am after our king that is gone.

  5. The fiddle was there in the middle, and the harp answering to it; and twelve mannerly women to bring my love to his bed.

  6. Promises he accounts but a kind of mannerly words, and in the expectation of your manners not to exact them: if you do, he wonders at your ill breeding, that cannot distinguish betwixt what is spoken and what is meant.

  7. J had thought, quoth this gentleman, he had here dwelled, and marched home mannerly in his botes: farre from the place he dwelt not.

  8. It will take a day or two, but Hugh Mannerly is unfailing and perfectly discreet.

  9. He telephoned to the Home Office forthwith, but Mr. Mannerly had praetermitted his control of aliens in the interests of dinner.

  10. For what other purpose did Hugh Mannerly and the Alien Control Department exist?

  11. Once again, after being promised the full sinister support of all the conspirators, I feel ungracious in having to record that the utmost efforts of Mr. Hugh Mannerly failed to produce any result.

  12. Was her aunt trying her, she questioned, to see if she would not forget herself and be ill-mannerly again?

  13. Shake hands with me, I shake hands with thee: Ye are full of courtesy, that is the best; And you take great pain, ye are a mannerly guest.

  14. Mannerly came hurrying along toward the minister's about dark, equipped from top to toe, and wearing the white vest that decided him to be the happy man.

  15. I have never seen more mannerly people than our hussars.

  16. The child who sought to be mannerly certainly must have felt rather discouraged at the prospect laid before him.

  17. Thou wilt not find thy master's sister half so ready to take thy freedoms, as thy mannerly master is!

  18. The quality of elegant serving and mannerly eating should be just what is every day observed at the family dinner of the same household.

  19. Polite usage recognizes certain minute distinctions between the mannerly and the unmannerly ways of performing every act of life that affects the comfort and happiness of others.

  20. If things are different from what we are accustomed to, we must try to accustom ourselves to them, and the mannerly guest will strive to do this, not as a cross, but as a pleasure.

  21. But the mannerly tourist will claim no more.

  22. If he is a rough-and-tumble sort of person the office is likely to be that kind of place; if he is quiet and mannerly the chances are that the office will be quiet and mannerly.

  23. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: The truth appeares so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out Som.

  24. Which mannerly deuotion shewes in this, For Saints haue hands, that Pilgrims hands do tuch, And palme to palme, is holy Palmers kisse Rom.

  25. Brought up to good behaviour and courage and mannerly ways.

  26. Dragon: It is not mannerly to eat without being invited.

  27. And for your merchandising, I am as like to help you with my good word as Mannerly Margery, provided you bid fair for it; since, if the lady loves me not so much, I can turn the steward round my finger.

  28. We are delighted to observe that you lead your lives in a more mannerly way than most of the other inhabitants of the pond.

  29. There were not only great, horrid pikes and great mannerly carp and roach and perch and sticklebacks and eels.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mannerly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amiable; civil; correct; courteous; debonair; decent; decorous; gallant; genteel; graceful; gracefully; graciously; ladylike; mannerly; orderly; polite; refined; respectful