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  • So I went to the parlour, and said, making a very low courtesy,

    Pamela 2006

  • With hesitating steps, she moved forward on the platform, stopped and stood motionless, clasping her large handsome ungloved hands in front of her, without a courtesy,

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

  • “If the noble Earl of Sussex,” said Leicester, bowing to his rival with the easiest and with the most graceful courtesy,

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Swain and others that citizens would be treated with courtesy,

    Civil War Erika Lindemann 2004

  • * With volunteers who carried out their responsibilities and functions with pride, efficiency and courtesy,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • “We sometimes succeed in collecting a pleasant party,” retorted Marston, with ironical courtesy,

    The Evil Guest 2003

  • Polly laughed in his face just as she used to do, when she said that, and, in spite of the doubt cast upon his courtesy,

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • Now, because I consider this to be unjust treatment, and because you have always shown me kindness and courtesy,

    The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck

  • The Master said, By breadth of reading and the ties of courtesy,

    The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius

  • Mademoiselle presented me to the French minister very prettily, however; and though I thought his greeting somewhat scant in courtesy,

    The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

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