" "Reckon it won't make her any better for me to be impolite to her," returned the Colonel calmly.

"At him, if I'm not being impolite, Mr. Beaumaroy.

"I don't find you the least impolite, Dr. Arkroyd," said Beaumaroy.

But it is not so bad and so dark that a slip in diplomacy, a careless word, or an impolite gesture, can instantaneously, as if by magic, involve twenty million men in a struggle to the death.

"When the priest pointed out how incredible the whole story was, the soldier swore to its truth, and became very impolite to his auditor.

Glances at his carelessly purchased clothes were veiled, and never utterly impolite, but he was conscious of them.

How impolite it was in everybody, how unkind, to go away!

Me!" "How impolite." "But that's Dan Brayley.

Didn't you postpone until another day a visit to Amy Stanton last winter, for just such a reason as this,that you might go to Annie Grainger's when her mother went to Baltimore,and Amy never thought of its being impolite or unkind.

" "Yes, that is just it," Laura went on eagerly; "and so you see that when she and her mother have made preparations for companyeven one personit would put them to a great deal of trouble and inconvenience to change the time, and it would be unkind and impolite to ask them to do it.

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She was offended because her account had been sent to her through a servant who had been impolite; so that he hastened to offer her his excuses, giving her all the time she desired.

I am going to greet him, for fear he may consider me impolite.

Old Mater is ravenous and impolite as the rest, except that she always waits for her children to get a few mouthfuls first; but not another hen or chicken must come near them.

Those divines, whose policy it is to handle slaveholders "with gloves," if they must handle them at all, doubtless regard Nathan as an exceedingly impolite preacher.

"That would have been impolite, Quade, and not at all in agreement with the spirit of our brotherly partnership.

Don't be impolite, Ossep.

I had half a suspicion of Sir Hargrave, as well from the character given us of him by a friend, as because of his impolite behaviour to the dear creature on her rejecting him; and sent to his house in Cavendish Square to know if he were at home: and if he were, at what time he returned from the ball.

And if, in truth, I found them so I would not be so impolite as to smile.

We had a Robin's nest last season in the grape vine over the back door, and I used to watch them all the time" and then Rap hesitated in great confusion, for fear that he had been impolite in stopping the Doctor.

My polite requests were ignored; impolite demands were answered with threats and curses.

A recent American writer is responsible for this statement, that if you ask an ordinary Japanese which is better, to tell a falsehood or be impolite, he will not hesitate to answer "to tell a falsehood!"

That's some comfort!" Mrs. Crull here became conscious that it was highly impolite to lose her temper, and she fell back to the support of her old friend.

Those who may have called on the bride without having received wedding cards should not have their visits returned, unless special reason exists to the contrary, such visit being deemed an impolite intrusion.

I MAKE MYSELF ACQUAINTED WITH THE IMPOLITE WORLD AND ITS PLACES OP UNFASHIONABLE RESORT.