"Bad manners" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was as quiet as a lambe, and durst never challenge his interest in Jerusalem from Godfrey's donation; as fearing to wrestle with the king, who had him on the hip, and could out him at pleasure for his bad manners."—Book ii. chap. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 • Various
... hideous creature, which has also obtained the name of fish-frog, monk-fish, bellows-fish, sea-devil, and other appellatives significant of its ugliness and bad manners. There is also a powerful Raia, which grows to an immense size in the tropics, known as the devil-fish, the terror of ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... delicate matter, the sale of bonds," she continued. "I suppose if they turn out badly the investors have the bad manners ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... the Captain, peevishly, "that the bad manners of these crop ears will spoil the very heathens themselves at last. Whoever heard of an Indian before who refused drink when he ...
— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams
... almost choked himself by cramming handfuls of the hot rice and honey into his mouth, which yawned like that of an old hippopotamus. The men did not at all approve of this assistance, but as it is the height of bad manners in Arab etiquette to repel a self-invited guest from the general meal, he was not interfered with, and was thus enabled to swallow the ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
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