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Made massive inroads on presenting a united parental front in re whining and table-manners.
Lost treasure. Found trike. ailbhe 2007
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Hilda looked to see what his table-manners were like.
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I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table-manners.
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Can't you teach that monkey some table-manners, Tinker?
Five Are Together Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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And please put on your best table-manners tonight, or Charlie the Chimp will be ashamed of you!
Five Are Together Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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"Our gang's got better table-manners," he commented.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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They probably deprecate his table-manners, but they just love his politics.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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Here, there were more than anyone could possibly want, and rib table-manners at all.
Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951
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He describes, for instance, the bad table-manners of a certain clergyman.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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As sumptuous first-class passengers they lounge about the deck in robes of tussore, rich silks and fancy waistcoats, though out of deference to their religious prejudice and Christian table-manners they usually mess by themselves.
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