"Respectfulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of this second conversation, bears testimony to the respectfulness of his Lordship's attention. "There was nothing in his manner which approached to levity, or anything that indicated a wish to mock at religion; though, on the other hand, an able dissembler would have done and said all that he did, ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt
... better to announce at once," he said, with the same stiff respectfulness as of an old family lawyer, "a boat rowed by six men has come to the landing-stage, and there's a gentleman ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton |
