1048 examples of politenesses in sentences
Mrs. Bowyer's eyes flew to Mary, but she was too well bred a woman not to pay her respects first to the lady of the house, and there were a number of politenesses exchanged, very breathlessly on Mrs. Turner's part, before the new-comers were free to show the real occasion of their visit.
They saluted them in various ways by different movements of their bodies, all which the giants returned with perfect politeness, and then vanished.
We had always considered JOHNNY CRAPAUD as the pink of politeness.
So she was escorted with great gifts and politenesses back to Egypt.
Kalitan ushered them to the camp with great politeness and considerable pride.
Many pieces of goods had been provided for the potlatch, and these were given away, given and received with dignified politeness.
Nor did he confine his concern to naval stores, or military preparations; but carried with him whatever he thought might contribute to raise in those nations, with which he should have any intercourse, the highest ideas of the politeness and magnificence of his native country.
This civility was so uniformly and reciprocally performed, that the politeness of the stork may be regarded as even less disputable than its piety.
Gaspar, who looked on, was astonished by a certain deferential politeness on the part of the big cowpuncher.
"Where now?" asked Bell, undecidedly, after the due politenesses with the hostess had been exchanged.
Those, however, who act in this way naturally, because their profession obliges them to lead a recluse life, or because their character rebels against feigned politenesses and conventional usage, ought in common justice to be tolerated.
Major Noltitz and I go up to this amiable couple, and the conventional politenesses are reciprocally exchanged.
He blustered politenesses to Lady Tilchester, who smiled vacantly while she was attending to something else.
Mrs. Bligh, uttering a hideous shriek, clutched Mrs. Wale, and Mrs. Wale, with a scream as dreadful, gripped Mrs. Bligh; and quite forgetting their somewhat formal politeness, they reeled and tugged, wrestling towards the window, each struggling to place her companion between her and the 'dobby,' and both uniting in a direful peal of yells.
The second in command was a Portuguese, da Cunha, who spoke French, but it was a different sort of French from the French Holroyd had learnt in Southport, and their intercourse was confined to politenesses and simple propositions about the weather.
This song, especially the nasal part, was received with such ill-concealed joy by our usual stolid river audience that one afternoon I took it upon myself to avenge our house-boat family for these truly British politenesses.
"The art of politeness he certainly has failed to retain, for you can have no idea what a brusque philosopher he is.
However, perhaps he has visited the Continent to learn politeness, and I think he may chance to learn a lesson of love also.
Detained at Auckland, or carried about in Grey's train, he was treated with a studied politeness which prevented him from being honoured as a martyr.
she will hear you," I remonstrated, quite awed in that still, majestic presence, for now we stood before our aged hostess, who, with a cold but stately politeness after Major Favraud's salutation and introduction, waved us in and across her threshold.
His ready politeness, unusual for one in his station, determined us to cultivate his maritime acquaintance, and in a short time we had drawn forth the outlines of his story, simple and bare as this was of incident.
It accounts also for the return of the virtue of politeness, for that also is a nameless thing ignored by logical codes.
Politeness has indeed about it something mystical; like religion, it is everywhere understood and nowhere defined.
Charles is not entirely to be despised because, as the type of this movement, he let himself float upon this new tide of politeness.
His name is unconnected with any great acts of duty or sacrifice, but it is connected with a great many of those acts of magnanimous politeness, of a kind of dramatic delicacy, which lie on the dim borderland between morality and art.