He wrote elegies on the great, letters and courtly compliments and love-lyrics to his friends, satires with an air of general censure.

The reception he met with was flattering; he was complimented warmly by some of the speakers on his own side; but it must be confessed that his debut was more showy than promising.

Racine having ironically complimented Perrault on the ingenuity with which he had elevated little men above the ancients in his poem (published 1687), le Siècle de Louis le Grand.

And the two Dromios' humble joy must not be forgotten; they had their congratulations and greetings too, and each Dromio pleasantly complimented his brother on his good looks, being well pleased to see his own person (as in a glass) shew so handsome in his brother.

Barshalloch very handsomely complimented me, and sent for the mutchkin.

The sentences of felons were often reversed, in consideration of their "patriotism" women of scandalous lives have been pensioned, and complimented publicly and various decrees passed, all tending to promote a national dissoluteness of manners.

They have been dignified with the name of "bread riots," and the great English journal that exercises a sort of censorship over governments and nations has gravely complimented us on the national progress we have made, as evidenced in the existence here of a starving population!

The huntsman invariably compliments him on his spirit and his cunning, but what he wants isthe brush.

" Then he bluntly complimented me upon my eyesight.

But I may perhaps be permitted to indulge my vanity by publishing it as a testimony that his previous praise of what I had written was genuine, and not merely the laudatory compliments of a correspondent.

My client appreciated my skill and complimented me patronizingly in very fair English, though with a slight Russian accent, delaying me intolerably to express his approval.

"He hoped gentlemen would compliment the President privately, as individuals; at the same time, he hoped such adulation would never pervade the House."

"When the blind went up and down and you smiled," he repliedsurely a naïve compliment to my way of "taking a call"!

Specially did they compliment me on my axe-work.

It was etiquette, on such occasions, to compliment every article of the establishment successively, as it appeared; so the Deacon's wife began at the table-cloth.

In an hour he returned, found the ladies in their freshest dresses, and complimented them suitably.

In one case he was so good as to refer to a question, put by me from the jury box, as a proper and pertinent one, at which I naturally felt vastly complimented.

It is, undoubtedly, the special economical event of the day, upon which the commercial, and scarcely less the political, diplomacy of the Government may be most justly complimented for its mastery of prejudices and impediments, which, under the circumstances, and in view of the peculiar system to be combated, appeared almost insurmountable.

In the next place the province of Gaul is praised, and is deservedly complimented in most honourable language by the senate for resisting Antonius.

"There are cavaliers beneath the windows of the Mentoni palace; doubtless they compliment our friend Olivia.

Whether this was due to Peter's untiring efforts to keep us within bounds, or whether the novelty of the journey was in a measure gone, it is difficult to determine, but we evidently were not so buoyant and were duly complimented on our good behavior.

There followed, accordingly, a formal presentation with an introductory address by the Director, who, in excellent English, thanked Mr. Morse in the name of Prussia and of all Germany for his great services, and speeches by the principal persons presentthe Belgian envoy, Baron de Nothomb, very felicitously complimenting the Professor in French.

" This, though usually a great compliment, disappointed Eleonora, as she answered, rather frigidly, "So people say.