polite remark

Example Sentences

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"Hullo, another——" "Misfire," was the polite remark of the sergeant.

From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.

So sorry did I feel for the woman that I leant across and addressed some trivial, polite remark to her, but received no reply.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

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

He has always received me with some polite remark, as if I were a perfect stranger whom he had never seen before, but he always seemed in a hurry to get rid of me.

From East of the Shadows by Barclay, Hubert, Mrs.

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

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald