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

The guests shake hands with the hostess, and making some polite remark about the "beautiful wedding" or "lovely bride," continue in line to the bridal pair.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily

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

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

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald