A manner rude and wild Is common at your age.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, introduction.

Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 2. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

Detection is, orought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love- story oran elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Sign of Four, ch.1.

Style is beginning something in the manner which will make it necessary for things that happen later to happen.

-Nichols, Mike originally Michael Peschowsky
  In Film Comment, May.

No good poetry is written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinksfrombooks, conventionand cliche¤  ; and not from life.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  'Prolegomena', in The Poetry Review, Feb.

To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his younger brother popped on to histhrone and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactlyare you behaving in this extraordinary manner.

-Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler
  To Hamlet. Rosecrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, act1.