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the manner in which a person behaves
- He seemed about five-and-twenty years of age, and was of the middle height; his countenance was frank and handsome; and his demeanor easy and prepossessing.Chapter 34 — Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative to a Young.... (23% in)
- As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.Chapter 6 — Oliver, Being Goaded by the Taunts of Noah, Rouses into Action.... (8% in)
- By the time he had got upon his legs, the Jew had disappeared; so Mr. Lively, after ineffectually standing on tiptoe, in the hope of catching sight of him, again forced himself into the little chair, and, exchanging a shake of the head with a lady in the opposite shop, in which doubt and mistrust were plainly mingled, resumed his pipe with a grave demeanour.Chapter 26 — In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene.... (17% in)
- Panting for breath, the old man stammered for a word; and in that instant checked the torrent of his wrath, and changed his whole demeanour.Chapter 26 — In Which a Mysterious Character Appears Upon the Scene.... (53% in)
- ...lacking the niceties of discrimination, and being troubled with no more subtle misgivings than those which resolve themselves into a dogged roughness of behaviour towards everybody; and being, furthermore, in an unusually amiable condition, as has been already observed; saw nothing unusual in her demeanor, and indeed, troubled himself so little about her, that, had her agitation been far more perceptible than it was, it would have been very unlikely to have awakened his suspicions.Chapter 39 — Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the.... (72% in)
- Fagin nodded to him to take no further notice just then; and, in a few minutes, the girl subsided into her accustomed demeanour.Chapter 44 — The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose.... (65% in)
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