polite remark
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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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
"That's not a polite remark to make to an old tree with moss on his branches," said the oak.
From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Carl Ewald
I don’t know whether the interpreter thought fit to explain the polite remark to his superior.
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
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 Ossip Schubin
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
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