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• "Well, well, cap'n," returned the sea-cook, ". . . Why, there you all are together like a happy family, in a manner of speaking."
• No doubt it maddened him; it knocked him over afresh—in a manner of speaking.
• [H]e is—in a manner of speaking—in eclipse as it were, sir!"
• Because in a manner of speaking I am sentimental about my childhood—not my own particular childhood, but the civilization which I grew up in and which is now, I suppose, just about at its last kick.
• James. Brought up in the country, I suppose? Bill. In a manner of speaking, yes.
• Rosenstock. If the gentlemen would perhaps like to try the Alpenrose... First Hiker. Is that a hotel too? Rosenstock. In a manner of speaking.