The Secretary of State laughed as heartily as his normal cold and scholarly manner allowed.

Beneath Jacobs' mild and scholarly manner, and his extraordinary musical mind, there is a steely determination to achieve the results he wants.

But it was only by maintaining a dry, scholarly manner that he could keep going.

Cold nerve, an unreadable face, skillful fingers, and a shy, scholarly manner that was deceptive.

'It'll work this way,' Paul said in his slow, scholarly manner.

He was truly the first among equals in discharging his judicial duties in a prompt, scholarly and fair manner.

He was a smallish brown-skinned man with delicate bones and a precise, scholarly manner.

His vague, scholarly manner always made him appear much older than he really was.

The Committee recommended that a perpetual society be formed to improve the law and the administration of justice in a scholarly and scientific manner.

The scholarly manner was all gone now.