polite remark
Example Sentences
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Amy echoed the polite remark, while Will, eying the three with an attempt at a critical estimate, thought to himself, "They don't look a bit nicer than that girl at the corner table."
From A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry
“When you have quite done praising the tea, will you please tell me what you believe about Mr. Harrington’s speech?” said the inexorable Joe, drowning her aunt’s reply to Vancouver’s polite remark.
From An American Politician by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
He has always received me with some polite remark, as if I were a perfect stranger whom he had never seen before, but he always seemed in a hurry to get rid of me.
From East of the Shadows by Mrs. Hubert Barclay
We had heard that when the Empress was a girl, her governess would place her in front of a circle of chairs, and make her go round and address a polite remark to each.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
I don’t know whether the interpreter thought fit to explain the polite remark to his superior.
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
