That would have been so polite to one's host and father-in-law, would not it?
The old deaf gentleman departs at the same time, loading Barbara with polite parting messages to her husband, and bowing distantly to me.
You may say that it is my egotism; but, at a moment like this, what is the use of shamming--of polite pretense?
Not once do we hear the terrible polite voice that chills the marrow of our bones.
In his words there is polite remorse and solicitude; in his face only a friendly mirth.
One veteran porter, who has been here ever since I was born, has a polite but improbable trick of addressing every female passenger as "my lady.
When she got to the gate, and was ready to open it, she presented this bouquet in a very polite and graceful manner to Allie.
The gentlemen greeted Mr. Holiday in a verypolite manner, and informed him of their plan, and that they wanted three more names to make up the necessary number for a party.
I paid her double," said Rollo, "because she was so polite as to give Allie such a pretty bouquet.
I made myself perfect in polite learning, in the works of poets, and versification.
Fearing lest my rude interruption had been overheard, I was framing some polite speech in Portuguese, when he opened the dialogue by asking in that language how I did.
Wouldn't it be as polite just to hold a candle or lantern for me in this confounded watercourse?
It seemed that their fame had gone before them, and the four girls were the objects of much polite and well-bred curiosity.
Miss Annie, with the evident intention of putting bygones out of her mind and being entirely polite and charming.
It was hardly polite of Timothy Peppercorn not to meet her at the door.
Mus' be polite to Johnny Jump-up, or tant play wiv May and Lola!
That might be polite to you--in one sense; it might sound rather unjust to Harry," he answered.
Harry, coming in the afternoon, in his caution risked no more than a politeinquiry and a polite expression of regret.
And perhaps even Mr. Harry may like a rest from devotion--or will you be polite enough to suggest that a temporary change in its object is a better way of putting it?
Jack's epistolary style was of a highly polite but rather unpractised order.
Then he went down into the restaurant scowling, and was ungracious to the polite and conciliating waiters, ordering his food and a bottle of claret as if they had done him an injury.
Always politeand chivalrous, but as aloof as a mountain top.
Rue looked up surprised, shy, not quite understanding how to reconcile his polite words and pleasant voice with the voice and manner in which he had addressed her on the bridge.
Stull passed with a polite grunt; Brandes ranged himself for the girl to pass him.
This young woman iss a hospital nurse und she iss so polite and obliging to volunteer her service for the poor young gentleman.
Murad Bey is unusually polite and effusive, conversing with me in German and French.
Musseer," he added suavely to Neeland, who looked up with a polite smile, "parly voo Anglay?
It's too bad," she acknowledged with a polite show of sympathy.
Conversation, as a talent, exists only in France; in other countries it only serves for polite intercourse, for discussion and for friendship; in France it is an art.
You should get yourself, however, trimmed and docked, Jack, and you will be much more presentable in polite society.
By far the larger proportion of the shocks inflicted upon polite circles arise from this very cause.
A married woman who declines the politeservices of all gentlemen, except her husband and near relatives, is a prude, with false scruples of propriety and delicacy.
They needed Russia and therefore they were very polite to Alexander, but the less he had personally to do with the actual work of the Congress, the better they were pleased.
I therefore pass them by with a politeand very respectful bow.
But Daisy shook her head again; and then first begging the gentleman's pardon, as a politelittle girl should do, stepped up to her faithful friend, and putting her arms about her neck whispered something in her ear.
Of course we can't decide that wisdom does it--we must be polite to Isabel.
I'll be polite enough to him, never fear--if we happen to be thrown together.
Lucy sat looking at him with her eyebrows delicately lifted in casual, polite inquiry.
During this polite interchange Roger had difficulty in restraining his impatience.
She smiled and was gone, the brief adieu leaving each of them to wonder how much more was meant than the polite commonplaces uttered.
There is nothing very polite about such observations, and no pretension to art.
What makes The Merry-Thought different from those appealing to polite taste is the wide swings of emotion that prompt the writers of these poems and catch the compiler’s fancy.
For the most part modern anthologies have, in turn, drawn on collections put together at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the next, when the ideal for inclusion was essentially that of “polite taste.
Amongst which are intermixed the Lucubrations of the polite Part of the World, written upon Walls in Bog-houses, &c.
He seemed to expect an answer, so the King did his best to think of one that should be bothpolite and truthful.
He never forces the note or lashes himself into fury or sentimentality; he limits himself in satire to the polite sphere which he understands, he is a great master of style and possesses every one of its fairy gifts except brevity.
The French language, in its Norman dialect, became the only polite medium of intercourse.
After his grandfather, the marquess of Halifax, Lord Chesterfield, the synonym in the vulgar world for a heartless exquisite, is in reality the first fine gentleman and epicurean in the best sense in English polite literature.
It was easy to see that Perez was a mouse who was accustomed to polite society, and to run about on soft carpets, as he had such very good manners.
The only way to manage this will be to take great pains over your copies and spelling, so that when your first tooth comes out you will be able to write a nice, tidy, polite letter to him.
On driving to the cottage-door I found it open, while a dozen dogs, of different descriptions, showed ready to receive us not in the most polite manner.
It is utter waste to teach some girls to play on the piano, and the idea that it is a necessary part of polite education is now rapidly disappearing from the cultured classes of society.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
