Her mind just went over and over the situation of kind Mr. Strong putting himself out to be polite for her sakeJarvis, stiff and ill-mannered, repulsing him.

Volumes might be filled with rules of polite manners in this style: hardly any detail is to be found in the whole business of daily life, even including occupations regarded as unclean, which was not invested with some religious significance.

The Belgian minister did not seem to be aware that slavery is a tabooed subject in polite circles, and he was continually bringing it forward until slaves, slavery, and black people in general became the principal topic of conversation, relieved by occasional discussion upon some new book or pictures, and remarks in praise of the viands before us.

The gentlemen who come to see you occasionally are polite to me, but, under existing circumstances, I feel that they cannot entertain for me the respect I think I deserve.

You might have said that he had the heart to wing a partridge,to "wing it," a pretty phrase in the mouth of a polite sportsman, who, if a poacher were to break the bones of his leg, would, in his own case, think it a little different.

He held a paper in his hand; his demeanour was deferential and exuberantly polite.

He was polite.

Nobody cares how or what we suffer until afterward, when there will be polite expressions of regret, which the survivors will assess at a true valuation!

I had been a school-friend of your dead sister, and for her sake, on the rare occasions of your seeing me, you have always been polite and kindly patronized me.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, and, since the revival of polite literature, the favourite study of European scholars, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

You got to be polite to 'em.

Coming into the presence of the emperor, the bishop paid his respects to him, in the most polite and proper manner.

"It seems really very odd that you were one of those polite young men who used sometimes to pass the plates of sandwiches to us where we stayed hidden in a corner so that the parental eye need not see how many we consumed.

Thus has country freedom corrupted the manners of a polite cat, and at the same time a hay knife (probably) has rendered him tailless.

Mr. Saunders was the polite but excessively middle-class clerk who went out to keep the legal strings untangled for them.

The polite lie made it necessary for them to venture forth at dinner time to eat their solitary meal of sardines and wafers in the grove below.

" "He is like the polite robber who first beats you to death and then says thank you for the purse," said Lady Deppingham.

15.Milton's word, in the fourth line above, is deep, and not depth, as these authors here give it: nor was it very polite in them, to use a phraseology which comes so near to saying, the devil was in the poet.

"My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your Lordship, as first minister, that our language is imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities; and that, in many instances, it offends against every part of grammar.

"Refined manners, and polite behaviour, must not be deemed altogether artificial: men who, inured to the sweets of society, cultivate humanity, find an elegant pleasure in preferring others, and making them happy, of which the proud, the selfish, scarcely have a conception.

"Oh," replied the scrupulously polite Indian, "the young Sahib shot divinely, but God was very merciful to the birds."

So far the rude male: it required the genius of feminine delicacy to define a Civil War as "one in which the military are unnecessarily and punctiliously civil or polite, often raising their helmets to each other before engaging in deadly combat.

" To this polite and business-like inquiry, Lady Shuckburgh replied as follows: "Lady Shuckburgh presents her compliments to Lady Seymour.

" Surely the British Constituent might take a lesson from this extremely polite letter-writer when his long-suffering Member has squeezed him into the Strangers' Gallery.

Bondsman tries to be polite, but he is really just passing the time while he is waiting for Mr. Shoop.