The piece of acting that most cheered me was Mr. GRAHAME HERINGTON as the philanderer's manservanta very tactful and observant performance.

It does not take long and when the other train has gone roaring past, the switched train can back up and get on the track and go serenely onhe resolved to be tactful.

Mr. Neelands hesitated, and became tactful.

Perhaps she thought it more tactful to hurry on home tonight.

I can see, Dawson, from the tactful skill with which you have dealt with me that discretion is among your most distinguished characteristics.

As for Logotheti, he was too tactful to refuse a game in which every one knew him to be a past master, in order to sit out and talk to her the whole evening.

"Well, Mr. Harrison," he concluded, "you have performed a disagreeable duty in a tactful manner.

diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c 702.

The country on either side of the Darling was now alive with natives, and though a sort of armed truce was kept up, it was at the cost of constant care and watchfulness, and the tactful submission to numerous annoyances, including much petty pilfering.

From her presence, from her tactful silence he drew comfortto an extent, rest.

Still, as Hallam's a tactful fellow, it's possible he'll first come to you.

He had meant to be tactful, but it looked as if he had been rash.

He was tactful and was satisfied to get his money.

In fact, he saw it would be tactful if he waited for some time, but he did not mean to do so.

Monsieur Servien was displeased with his son, but was too timid as well as too tactful to make any overt reproaches.

With his quiet ways, tactful temper and air of kindly aloofness, he was popular with the more sensible boys, while the others left him in peace, as he did them.

From a report of Col. F.B. MILDMAY'S speech: "Just as an accomplished horseman exercised ideal control over the strongest horse with the lightest hand, so Mr. Lowther had shown such tactful skill in handling them that those who had sat under him had bus-consciously been disposed to accept his guidance.

Nobody knew that, an hour before, she had been in Madam Routh's room, making a clean breast of the whole transaction, and disclosing the truth of Miss Craydocke's magnanimous and tactful interposition, confessing that without this she had been at her wits' ends how to put a stop to it, and promising, like a sorry child, to behave better, and never do so any more.

No! I am not going to call them "eighty years young," or employ any of those banal euphemisms with which would-be "tactful" but really club-footed sentimentalists insult the intelligence of the so-called "old."

And so the little misunderstanding, which might easily, had Bessie been less patient and tactful, have grown into a quarrel that would have ended their friendship before it was well begun, was smoothed over, and Dolly and Bessie, tired but happy, went upstairs to their room together, and were asleep so quickly that they didn't even take the time to talk matters over.

Sir Geoffrey's tactful policy and wise counsels did much to promote the prosperity of this native state, and during the trying days of the South African War, he was able to secure the neutrality of the tribesmen.

With which tactful brotherly explanation he abruptly retraced his steps to the vestibule, where he waited.

To ensure success as teachers, students should be tactful, observant, and sympathetic; they should be medically fit, and physically suited to the work, and should produce evidence of a good general education.

'E was just tryin' to be tactful.

Moderate, tactful, restrained, patriotic, he was the only man who, when difficulties arose, was always able to approach the Chancellor, sure of finding some tenable compromise.