polite remark
Example Sentences
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“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 Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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
She wore a dazzling toilet; "from Worth," she replied, in explanation to some polite remark which Elsa had made upon her dress.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
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
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
