polite remark
Example Sentences
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I don’t know whether the interpreter thought fit to explain the polite remark to his superior.
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
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
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 Bram Stoker
“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
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 Paul Heyse
