courteous act
Example Sentences
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Every good action of yours, every impulse of affection for those who love you, every courteous act towards your companions, every noble thought of yours, is like a leap towards that other world.
From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The courteous act, which was quite spontaneous, charmed the Queen and the Prince.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler
Kitty understood what this courteous act signified; he was disarming himself to reassure her.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
Forth stepp'd King Gunther's servants with courteous act and look, And led them to fit chambers, and in charge their raiment took.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
He is the same delightful, good-hearted fellow as of old; always ready to do a kind, or courteous act.
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
