The inside of the "castle" was blocked by a collection of filthy-looking sheds or rooms, which seemed to be full of Arabs and negroes and women-wives of the khaylifa-all of them squalid and mannerless: the paths between were littered with refuse.
"In the Tail of the Peacock"
Isabel Savory
"But he is a mannerless churl, we will not think of him.
"Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard"
Eleanor Farjeon