Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which compelled me, for I had found Alfred a very companionable man, entirely frank and unaffected. Those people who think he is a proud and reserved man - a man of few words - labor under a profound mistake: he can be eloquent upon occasion. I cannot forbear relating the delicate compliment he paid me at parting: he said, and I think he meant it, that he hoped I had enjoyed my visit as much...
When summer comes some of them will go yachting, and you will naturally see that you are one of the party; or better, - as I know you have a cat-boat of your own, - it would be a delicate compliment to invite some of them to go with you. In this case see that there is plenty of ginger-ale and soda on board, as these are capital remedies for sea-sickness, and will come in very well, no doubt. If two of your friends happen to get together and talk in an undertone about college matters, though you hear...
...respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some even actually pulled my long plait of hair, - evidently a very high compliment. For the Americans express good-will by touching one another. When pleased with themselves they rub their own hands; when pleased with others, they rub and shake the hands of others. Different degrees of pleasure are expressed by different manners of touching. When greatly pleased, they touch each other...
...This is a famous department of this paper, and the statement is intended as a compliment...
...abundant leisure for reading. Or is it possible that the President recommends the use of Sunday as study-time? Moreover, he argues that by remaining in Cambridge we can enjoy "intellectual conversation" with our fellow-students. Is "intellectual conversation" confined to students? And does he pay a very high compliment to our home surroundings when he intimates that we must remain in Cambridge for this mental stimulus...