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1  Her manner was cold, and she talked little.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
2  Lena's good looks and gentle manners appealed to him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  Everything about this old man was in keeping with his dignified manner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
4  She was a thin, hard-faced woman, very well-dressed, very reserved in manner.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
5  She was quicker in speech, lighter in movement and manner than the other girls.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
6  I felt like a boy in their company, and all manner of forgotten interests revived in me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
7  These boys had no practised manner behind which they could retreat and hold people at a distance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
8  I thought her manner with her customers very good, and wondered where she had learned such self-possession.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  She was formal in manner, and made calls in rustling, steel-grey brocades and a tall bonnet with bristling aigrettes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
10  With me they had been like older brothers; had restrained their speech and manners out of care for me, and given me so much good comradeship.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
11  She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
12  Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V