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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

  • Hilda looked to see what his table-manners were like.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • 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.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Can't you teach that monkey some table-manners, Tinker?

    Five Are Together Again Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

  • 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

  • "Our gang's got better table-manners," he commented.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • They probably deprecate his table-manners, but they just love his politics.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • Here, there were more than anyone could possibly want, and rib table-manners at all.

    Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951

  • He describes, for instance, the bad table-manners of a certain clergyman.

    A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

  • 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.

    Pan-Islam

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