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Rootes the extraccio {u} n, and that may be had {e} in .2. maners, that is to sey in nombres quadrat, and in cubic {es}: Amonge the which {e}, ffirst of Num {er} acio {u} n, and aft {er} ward {e} of þe oþ {er} s by ordure, y entende to write.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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Sorree; i noes dat it iz bad maners to showt but dis iz verree egg-siting!
Video: Kitteh Wants The Laundry - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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You may consider good maners to be a strategy that only works among educated adults, and is therefore beneath contempt in your Gangsta Rap circles where constant insults calling out your foes is the preferred startegy.
It's the new Bloggingheads — with me and Eve Fairbanks. Ann Althouse 2009
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We're not familly or friends with the owners, we were just users, and it's sneaky to impute something like “loyality” or good maners…it's a two-way street.
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People with albinism have good maners and excellent behaviour and feel some bit complex due to their appearence.
Da Vinci Code Redux Kay Olson 2006
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What fitting revenge when the little one starts demanding maners of her mother – and she will.
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Of Ethiope, and the auncient maners of that nation.
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Of Aegipte, and the auncient maners of that people.
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The Fardle of Facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie by
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A man very farre differing from divers Courtiers in these dayes, who for soothing shamefull and gracelesse maners in such as allow them maintenance, are called and reputed to bee Gentlemen, yea speciall favourites: whereas much more worthily, they should be accounted as knaves and villaines, being borne and bred in all filthinesse, and skilfull in every kinde of basest behaviour, not fit to come in Princes Courts.
The Decameron 2004
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