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"Courtesy" Quotes from Famous Books

... danger zone yet?" asked one of the two young women whose acquaintance Blake and Joe had made through the courtesy of ...

— The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front - Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films • Victor Appleton

... acquirements and the dispensations of prosperity as our troops entered the city by the principal residence street, it was noticed that guards were left at all the houses that displayed the British flag—a reward for English courtesy, and the feeling of the troops that the British are ...

— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead

... me. For your going forward with me should destroy you and profit me nothing. It would be but as the host bringing his guests one field beyond his garth, when their goal is the ends of the earth; and if there were a lion in the path, why should he perish for courtesy's sake?" ...

— The Story of the Glittering Plain - or the Land of Living Men • William Morris

... Threlkeld this day; so farewell, and be assured your courtesy will not be forgotten ...

— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... the moment with the hope that this great woman would approve of her on the financial side that she took no time to reflect that some other quality might, in courtesy, have been suggested. But she confessed to possessing a certain capital, and the tone seemed rich and deep in which Mrs. Farrinder said to her, "Then contribute that!" She was so good as to develop this idea, and her picture of the part Miss Chancellor might play by making liberal donations ...

— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James

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