Compliment
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223 examples of Compliment in a sentence
"Well then, it will serve master right!""How true!""When one has the honor of being an expert as master is, one mustn't lay himself open to--"Conseil didn't have time to complete the
compliment.
He blushed at the
compliment
of his landlord, who had already turned to the doctor, and was enumerating to him, one after the other, all the principal inhabitants of Yonville.
"And who doesn't want for women, either," softly added the sailor, thinking he was paying the stranger a
compliment.
Madame de Renal remarked that, when alone with her, he never expressed himself well except when he was distracted by some unforeseen occurrence, he never thought of turning a
compliment.
M. de La Mole, who had secured a bishopric for his nephew, had chosen to pay him the
compliment
of bearing the whole of the expense himself.
At length the prelate could not refrain from paying the young seminarist a
compliment.
'Madame de Renal, too, had the most beautiful eyes,' he said to himself; 'people used to
compliment
her on them; but they had nothing in common with these.'Julien had not enough experience to discern that it was the fire of wit that shone from time to time in the eyes of Mademoiselle Mathilde, for so he heard her named.
Altamira had paid him a handsome compliment, evidently springing from a profound conviction: 'You have not the French frivolity, and you understand the principle of _utility_.'
I have no regrets in saying this as, in return for your
compliment
to me, I also find you rather attractive, especially when you look at me as sadly as you are now, although you really have no reason to do so.
Mr. Harper bowed in silence to the compliment, and he soon resumed the meditations from which he had been interrupted, and for which the long ride he had that day made, in the wind, might seem a very natural apology.
"For the compliment, I might thank you," cried the lieutenant with a laugh; "but modesty forbids.
The surgeon, who was well acquainted with these views of his patient, beheld him, as he cavalierly turned his back on Mason and himself, with a commiserating contempt, replaced in their leathern repository the phials he had exhibited, with a species of care that was allied to veneration, gave the saw, as he concluded, a whirl of triumph, and departed, without condescending to notice the
compliment
of the trooper.
Although the housekeeper did not altogether comprehend the other's meaning, she knew he used a compliment, and as such was highly pleased with what he said.
He frequently declared, with unconquerable simplicity and earnestness of manner, that it gave him more pleasure to see the former brought in wounded than any officer in the squadron, and that the latter afforded him the least; a
compliment
and condemnation that were usually received by the first of the parties with a quiet smile of good nature, and by the last with a grave bow of thanks.
It would be but a sorry
compliment
to science, to say that a doctor of medicine had fractured both his legs by injudiciously striking them against a pair of barposts."
The trooper was enjoined to vigilance, and the letter concluded with a
compliment
to his honor, zeal, and undoubted bravery.
Katy was too much pleased with this
compliment
to make any resistance, while he buckled her close to his own herculean frame, and, driving a spur into his charger, they flew from the lawn with a rapidity that defied further denial.
And then she diluted the
compliment
by adding, "But it's powerful seldom you're a mind to, I'm bound to say.
I took the freedom one day, after we had talked pretty close to the subject, to tell him that it was true I had received the
compliment
of a lover from him, namely, that he would take me without inquiring into my fortune, and I would make him a suitable return in this, viz.
At last he told me that, without compliment, he was charmed with my company, and asked me if I durst trust myself in a coach with him; he told me he was a man of honour, and would not offer anything to me unbecoming him as such.
Mr. Pickwick acknowledged the compliment, and cordially shook hands with the stout gentleman in the top-boots.
And there, sure enough, in the leaden gutter of a tiled roof, were Mr. Winkle and Mrs. Pott, comfortably seated in a couple of chairs, waving their handkerchiefs in token of recognition--a
compliment
which Mr. Pickwick returned by kissing his hand to the lady.
Eh, Mary!''Get along with you, you wretch,' said the hand-maiden, obviously not ill-pleased with the compliment, however.
Mr. Snodgrass acknowledged the
compliment.
On this occasion, however, and as if expressly in
compliment
to any follower of Mr. Pickwick's, he unbent, relaxed, stepped down from his pedestal, and walked upon the ground, benignly adapting his remarks to the comprehension of the herd, and seeming in outward form, if not in spirit, to be one of them.
Mr. Winkle smiled feebly over his blue neckerchief in acknowledgment of the compliment, and got himself so mysteriously entangled with his gun, in his modest confusion, that if the piece had been loaded, he must inevitably have shot himself dead upon the spot.
By way of adding force to the command, he thrust the brass emblem of royalty into Sam's neckcloth with one hand, and seized Sam's collar with the other--a
compliment
which Mr. Weller returned by knocking him down out of hand, having previously with the utmost consideration, knocked down a chairman for him to lie upon.
This was a double-barrelled
compliment.
The deputy-shepherd seemed by no means best pleased with Sam's arrival; and when the first effervescence of the
compliment
had subsided, even Mrs.
'It's from Dodson and Fogg's.''And it's uncommon handsome o' Dodson and Fogg, as knows so little of me, to come down vith a present,' said Sam.'I feel it as a wery high compliment, sir; it's a wery honorable thing to them, as they knows how to reward merit werever they meets it.
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