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Example sentences for "her manner"

  • Her manner is decided, her voice emphatic, as though aware that there is no nonsense in its owner's composition.

  • Her manner is that of one who is not pleased.

  • No," said she, and there was no pose in her manner now; it was sincerely human.

  • Said she, her manner ingenuous: "It doesn't strike me as astonishing that a man should make a sensible speech.

  • Yes, I understand," replied she, her manner a gentle graciousness, which in some moods would have sent his pride flaring against the very heavens in angry scorn.

  • Miss Winthrop wondered at her manner, but replied, "Brain fever, I am told.

  • Her eyes were continually seeking his face, but there was something in her manner in this respect that puzzled him more than anything else.

  • By reason of her interdict, made at West Point, so earnestly, and indeed fiercely, and confirmed by her manner, her father had never mentioned the name of Dennis Fleet.

  • She became an artistic study to him, for her every movement was grace itself, except that there was no softness or gentleness in her manner.

  • Her manner at once became cold, observant, and thoroughly self-possessed.

  • Since the holidays she had not urged Lily to return to Bellomont, and the first time they met in town Lily fancied there was a shade of coldness in her manner.

  • She had, to a shade, the exact manner between victory and defeat: every insinuation was shed without an effort by the bright indifference of her manner.

  • And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.

  • He only half existed for her this evening: her manner was as different as her dress.

  • Even more marked than this, though, was the change that had taken place in her manner.

  • When she next came, I observed a feverish excitement in her manner, which assured me, even plainer than the coy sweetness displayed in our last interview, that her heart had been touched by her lover's attentions.

  • Struck by her manner, I lifted her face and looked at it.

  • I thought the suspicions of the police rested upon nothing more tangible than the peculiarity of her manner at the inquest and the discovery of her handkerchief on the scene of the tragedy.

  • And then, her air, her manner, her tout ensemble, is so indescribably improved!

  • Edmund first began again-- "I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday, particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing everything in so just a light.

  • Thaddeus was too much pleased with her manner not to accept this courtesy.

  • Surprised at her manner, he held it in his hand.

  • Her father, accustomed to her manner, and suspecting no immediate cause of concern, continued to smoke with the apparent phlegm which would seem to belong to that particular species of enjoyment.

  • The strength of her emphasis, indeed, as well as her manner, caused Hetty to look up reproachfully.

  • While Judith was loquacious and caressing in her manner, Hetty remained thoughtful and silent.

  • Judith spoke bitterly, and with her usual force, but her listener was too much struck with the novelty of the sensations he experienced to advert to her manner.

  • She was scarcely forward in her manner, though there was sometimes a freedom in her glances that it required all the aid of her exceeding beauty to prevent from awakening suspicions unfavorable to her discretion, if not to her morals.

  • Lady Arabella was a little offended at this want of freedom on his part, and become somewhat sterner in her tone--a thought less condescending in her manner.

  • Was not Lady Arabella right throughout, right in her conclusions, though so foully wrong in her manner of drawing them?

  • Even though she had made an advance--and some elusiveness in her manner led me to doubt it I could not go to her now.

  • There was no such thing as embarrassment in her manner, no trace of misgiving that she would not move properly in the affair.

  • Still palpitating, she reached the house in Fillmore Street, halting a moment with her hand on the door, knowing her face was flushed, anxious lest her mother or Lise might notice something unusual in her manner.

  • Her manner changed to one of stinging scorn.

  • He followed her, puzzled, yet piqued and excited by her manner, as with rapid steps she hurried along the pavement.

  • She was almost retiring in her manner, but she made Jack feel that she had a strong personal interest in his welfare, and she asked a hundred questions about the voyage and about town and about Edith.

  • The audacity of the remark was quite obscured in the innocent frankness and sweetness of her manner.

  • But she could do no less than give him her city address, though the information was not accompanied by any invitation in her manner.

  • But the change to which I now refer was superadded to this: it was in her manner, which became anxious and fluttered.

  • Giving her a strict charge to be careful of her manner, and only to carry in my card and say I waited, I sat down in the drawing-room (which we had now reached) until she should come back.

  • She however took her time; she drew out their quiet gossip as if she had wished to profit by their meeting, and this confirmed precisely an interpretation of her manner, of her mystery.

  • Her manner, warmer than usual, took on a portion of its old reserve.

  • Her manner at parting had, however, reassured him.

  • There was some appearance of hurry and agitation in her manner.

  • As she arose, her manner began to change, and, ere she had reached the door, the quicker flowing blood was restoring the color to her cheeks.

  • There was a certain decision and independence in her manner which he had learned to respect.

  • There was not the slightest impatience nor bitterness in her manner: it was as well regulated as the sentiment she expressed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her arrival; her being; her brother; her chamber; her ear; her first; her former; her good; her hands; her knees; her ladyship; her left; her life; her little; her lover; her nose; her people; her room; her turn; her was; here comes; here goes; here used; here you; hereditary descent; heroic deeds