She constantly boasted of her descent, and clung to the courtesy title of "honourable," to which she had no claim.

Ill manners, he said, were the only courtesy fit for such a wretch.

" "And I," she answered, holding out her hand, "as I hope and mean to beas I am your friendpromise that I will have no more to do with him than the barest courtesy demands.

He did not even introduce me to his wife, this courtesy devolving, per force, upon his sister Marian, a very sweet and intelligent girl, who, in a few hurried words, made us acquainted.

And due acknowledgment of so rare a courtesy doth not fail us in the very hand of the ambassador himself, for this letter also was intercepted!

Therefore some go, with courtesy exceeding, Neither to hear nor see, but show their breeding: Each lady striving to out-laugh the rest; To make it seem they understood the jest.

" Each party in a discussion of this nature has an uncontested right to make its own statement of facts and draw its own conclusions from them, to acknowledge or deny the accuracy of counter proof or the force of objecting arguments, with no other restraints than those which respect for his own convictions, the opinion of the world, and the rules of common courtesy impose.

He desiderated a tribunal to determine the right to the title, and he opined that the courtesy prefix of 'Honourable,' which once, it appears, belonged to baronets, should be restored to them.

The "Echo" was the first to do me the justice of printing a defense, and it was followed by the "Times," which printed my letter and one from Mr. Appleton; but of the authors who, having a transatlantic reputation, had profited by the "courtesy right," only Mr. Trollope came forward to sustain me with the statement that he had received more from the Harpershis American publishersthan from his English publishers.

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But this may with truth be affirmed,that many a man fails for the want of courtesy, and for the want of that good-will to his fellows from which all real courtesy springs.

I am enamoured of the American accent, these many years, andthe calumny of superficial observation to the contraryI will maintain, so far as my own experience goes, that there is as much courtesy broadcast in America as in any land; more, I am inclined to think than in France.

Actually, he was only a remote courtesy uncle, having married their father's mother's sister.

Howsoever, the more intelligent merchants do jeer him, the vulgar do admire him, holding his novels oracular; and these are usually sent for tokens or intermissive courtesies betwixt city and country.