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Travelling abroad, the man from this country was wont to assume, and if opposed to contend, ill-manneredly sometimes, that its institutions were far the best in the world.
History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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The auctioneer knocked off the purchase; and the man, more dead than alive, was delivered into the hands of the slave-trader's attendants, who received orders to give him twenty lashes on the spot, for his "cursed ill-manneredly Virginian insolence."
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The auctioneer knocked off the purchase; and the man, more dead than alive, was delivered into the hands of the slave-trader's attendants, who received orders to give him twenty lashes on the spot, for his “cursed ill-manneredly Virginian insolence.”
The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive Hildreth, Richard 1852
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The auctioneer knocked off the purchase, and the man, more dead than alive, was delivered into the hands of the slave-traders 'attendants, who received orders to give him twenty lashes on the spot, for his "damned ill-manneredly Virginia insolence."
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Allah the Great and Glorious, did I not fear ill-manneredly to transgress against the rights of my father, Kamar al-Zaman, and my brother, Prince As’ad, I would assuredly go in to her and cut off her head, even as I cut off that of her eunuch!
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In that time it has moved perhaps a hundred or so feet and I suspect it is only because your 71st is very ill-manneredly pushing from behind. "
I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Richard Sabia 1963
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