polite remark

Example Sentences

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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 Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

Some of those at table with him, being ladies and gentlemen, now and again made a polite remark; to which he answered with equal politeness. 

From The Man by Stoker, Bram

He turned off the furious remonstrances which came like the burden of a song from Berlin, with the polite remark that the Prussian Government would be soon very glad to follow his example.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

I don’t know whether the interpreter thought fit to explain the polite remark to his superior.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

I was just working hard to concoct some polite remark about ballets in general and this one in particular, when the intermission ended and she was again entirely absorbed in the spectacle below.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul