nice-mannered

Straight, buttoned-down Negroes, like my fatherhes a doctorthey like me fine and dandy, like Im the way all black girls should be: boarding-school bred, nice-mannered, good vocabulary, all that stuff.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

Straight, buttoned-down Negroes, like my fatherhes a doctorthey like me fine and dandy, like Im the way all black girls should be: boarding-school bred, nice-mannered, good vocabulary, all that stuff.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

Straight, buttoned-down Negroes, like my fatherhes a doctorthey like me fine and dandy, like Im the way all black girls should be: boarding-school bred, nice-mannered, good vocabulary, all that stuff.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

He was dressed up fine, in an expensive suit and a shirt with French cuffs, all smiling and nice-mannered.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He was dressed up fine, in an expensive suit and a shirt with French cuffs, all smiling and nice-mannered.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

A very nice-mannered girl, but he wasn't used to girls.

At Bertram's Hotel Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1965

“A nice-mannered, sickly-looking boy with long hair, who used to visit her and called her ‘Aunt’.”

Maigret in Montmartre Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

It wasn't jest her looks, for she always was as pretty as a picture, but she was as nice-mannered, well-behaved a gyirl as you'd want to see.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

He was a nice-mannered boy, picking up the Anthology and Baby's doll from the ground, and handing them to her with a charming smile.

Missy Dana Gatlin

A nice-mannered man he is, with a pretty face, an 'some folks hold it to be a pity that we can't change our ideas about baptism and become

The Miller of Old Church 1911