Here, then, my new lover had met Ursula; howbeit, he made not himself known to her, by reason that already he had heard an evil report of her husband's dealings as Consul, and of her deeds and demeanors.
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Georg Ebers
They seemed real glad to see me, though their manners and smiles and hull demeanors seemed kinder new, somehow, like their clothes.
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Marietta Holley
No sooner is it given out than Algy, Bobby, and Tou Tou, all look at me and grin; but father, who has a wily way of establishing himself in the corner of the pew, so as to have a bird's-eye view of all our demeanors, speedily frowns them down into a preternatural gravity.
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Rhoda Broughton