What is "mannering"

Usage examples of "mannering".

I can hardly leave her with a band of tinkers, especially when Mannering charged me to look after her.

Nicholas Mannering, from all reports, was an odious monster of ill nature, such as in comparison would make Sandor look a veritable paragon.

I would much rather spend my afternoon with you than set out on the trail of the Mannering chit.

His first glimpse of Miss Delilah Mannering was one that would haunt him, and not in a pleasant manner, for a very long time.

Miss Mannering did not seem offended by so ungainly an exhibition, though the innkeeper patently considered it the ultimate demonstration of villainy.

Myself he considers a hardened profligate, and Miss Mannering a prime piece of Haymarket-ware.

Delicately, she made known her opinion that Miss Mannering was going on a very bad way.

Acquit yourself of the notion that my interest in Miss Mannering is at all honorable.

Miss Mannering, and since he could think of no other destination any more interesting, His Grace directed his footsteps toward the Royal Crescent.

If Miss Mannering means to go on in the way she has begun, the consequences will be incalculable!

Miss Delilah Mannering was to be her sole responsibility, caused Binnie to lower her gaze once more to her coffee cup.

Miss Mannering herself walked into the morning room, trailed by the faithful Caliban, both of them greatly improved in appearance by thorough scrubbings.

Miss Mannering appeared less dismayed by this accusation of boldness than intrigued.

For a moment, Miss Mannering had looked very much like a young lady in love.

Miss Mannering was far from a beauty, but she had a fresh and wholesome look about her, and her ingenuous manner could not help but appeal.