The Duke of Argyle was exceedingly polite to him, and upon his complaining of the shelties which he had hitherto ridden being too small for him, his grace told him he should be provided with a good horse to carry him next day.

What had changed her from a clinging, sweetly mid-Victorian girl into a reserved, coldly polite woman, Nick could not imagine.

He was excessively polite, hat in hand, and making a most respectful bow.

The beauties whom he sighed for were most frigidly polite, So perforce he came and sat beside the little girl in white.

Such nights as these try men's souls; but Van Bibber passed the stage-door man with as calmly polite a nod as though the piece had been running a hundred nights, and the manager was thinking up souvenirs for the one hundred and fiftieth, and the prima donna had, as usual, began to hint for a new set of costumes.

What time he was compelled to be in the house, in the few remaining days before round-up, he avoided Flora or was punctiliously polite.

In fact, no one is more exquisitely polite than an octoroon woman when she desires to be polite, when she elevates the subserviency of her race into graciousness.

The poor girl was only sixteen years of age, pretty and well-behaved, and her murderer was one of the aristocracy of New Zealand, and, as Mr. Earle observes, a remarkably polite savage.

But there she stopped, feeling that it would be scarcely polite to tell him that she had begun of late years to lose faith in him.

The German authorities, though scrupulously polite, were adamantine in their refusal to permit us to pass through the German lines.

Jean is getting quite natural with me now, and isn't so awfully polite.

The parson, of the church came to call at once, but grandmamma nearly made him spoil his hat, he fidgeted with it so, and he hardly dared to ask for more than one subscriptionshe is so beautifully polite, and she often is laughing in her sleeve.

However, as the attendants were all liberally fee'd, they remained strictly polite even if they felt amused.

There was no man who could have displayed more perfect courtesy in his gravely polite salute.

As no man could be more gracefully or delicately polite than John Effingham, when the humour seized him, Mrs. Bloomfield was struck with the kind and gentleman-like manner with which he met his young kinswoman on this trying occasion, and the affectionate tones of his voice, and the winning expression of his eye, as he addressed her.

Officiously polite in her manners, and inflexibly attentive to her interest, she seemingly acquiesces in every thing you propose.

The Commandant hurried out from his office to welcome thema bustling little officer with sandy hair and the kindliest possible face; a trifle self-important, obviously proud of his prison, and, after a fashion, of his prisoners too; anxiously, elaborately polite in his manner, especially towards Dorothea.

I therefore suffered unnecessary annoyance during my first shopping in London, because I was overwhelmingly polite and affable to the man behind the counter.

Mrs. Ridgeley had no special inducement to waste herself on Mrs. Markham, and none to exhibit any sensibility at the treatment of Barton; her manner was an admirable specimen of the cool, neighborly, indifferently polite.

She looked sensible, yet why was she so infernally polite to Luke Tweezy?

The Commandant was not inwardly afraid; he was innately polite.

She was quiet, and was, though utterly untrained, instinctively polite, and profited from the first day by the example of her teacher's quiet elegance.

I am invariably polite to her and consider all her wishes, and she often tells me she is very proud of me; but all trace of the familiarity she exercised towards me in the beginning has disappeared.

"If I could bring myself to reproach you, Captain," he went on, ironically polite, "I might protest that your last visit to this island savoured of a too-inquisitive intrusion.

Well, when they had done votin', Sonny, after first thankin' 'em,which I think was a mighty polite thing to do, an' they full o' the giggles at his little expense that minute,why, he went on to say thet he requie'd 'em to make thess one condition, an' that was thet any question he missed was to be passed on to them thet had been a-gradj'atin' so fast, an' ef they missed it, it wasn't to be counted ag'inst him.