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Sentences starting with complimentary

Complimentary round-trip tickets have been tendered to General Butler, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Richardson, and other eminent gentlemen, whose public services have entitled them to the rest and relaxation of a voyage of this kind. [5]

Sentences ending with complimentary

The names under which he mentions the two personages, it will be seen, are not intended to be complimentary. [3]
To apply the term to a man or woman was considered highly complimentary. [4]
He saw that she misunderstood him; but he also saw that, on the face of it, the phrase was not complimentary. [11]
I do not know what he said of thee, but it was not complimentary. [10]
I call that complimentary. [5]
The newspapers have been complimentary. [5]
One so conspicuous and successful in society as Laura could not be out of the way two days, without remarks being made, and not all of them complimentary. [5]

More example sentences with the word complimentary in them

It is true you do not shout, and you do not linger, you only whisper and skip--still, what little you do in the matter is complimentary to the crime. [5]
Now, for many years our international relations have been uncommonly smooth, oiled every few days by complimentary banquet speeches, and sweetened by abundance of magazine and newspaper "taffy. [4]
On the letter-head was printed "The United Northeastern Railroads," and Mr. Austen Vane was informed that, by direction of the president, the enclosed was sent to him in an entirely complimentary sense. [9]
It is a very good article and the writer says all manner of kind and complimentary things about me--for which I am sure thank him with all my heart; but then why should he go and spoil all his praise by one unlucky experiment? [5]
Mr. B. was very complimentary to me when Trollop's break-down in the House showed him the object of my mysterious scheme; I think he will say, still finer things when I tell him the triumph the sequel to it has gained for us. [5]
The next letter to Twichell takes up politics and humanity in general, in a manner complimentary to neither. [5]
She had seen tickets marked complimentary, she remembered, but she could not for the life of her understand why our party should be particularly favored at a celestial exhibition like this. [6]
A remark of the Tribune's about refusal of Canadian copyright, not complimentary, but not necessarily malicious--and of course adverse criticism which is not malicious is a thing which none but fools irritate themselves about. [5]
When at last the lecturer came he sat down informally on the table with one foot hanging in the air and grinned, too, at her bantering but complimentary introduction. [9]
The old gentleman stood surveying the couple--the one with a strongly complimentary right eye, the other with a mixed expression done with the left. [5]
After the more serious business of the morning's repast was over, Dr. Macalister, at the call of the chairman, arose, and proposed my welfare in a very complimentary way. [6]
What should he say to their Majesties if they ordered the choir for the late meal and missed the voice about which the Queen had said so many complimentary things in the Emperor's name? [10]
I have a reception to-night and will be out very late at that place and at Irving's Theatre where I have a complimentary box. [5]
I had been receiving a good many very nice and complimentary attentions, and my head was a couple of sizes larger than usual, and his hat just suited me. [5]
Col. Leonard has received a letter from him in which he offers me a complimentary benefit if I will come there. [5]
The under-graduates of Oxford who hooted their admiration of the shy author when he appeared in the theater to receive his complimentary degree perhaps understood this, and expressed it in their shouts of "Diedrich Knickerbocker," "Ichabod Crane," "Rip Van Winkle. [4]
I thought at one time, as the learned judge was speaking, that I had found that man; but he wound up, like all the others, by saying complimentary things. [5]
In the midst of the talk I let drop a complimentary word about King Arthur, forgetting for the moment how this woman hated her brother. [5]
I know of nothing so little complimentary to a singer as the audience that patronisingly listens outside a room or window,--not bound by any sense of duty as an audience,--between whom and the artists an unnatural barrier is raised. [11]
It certainly could not be called a popular will, and, complimentary as the newspapers were to the energy and success of John Grier, few of them called him public-spirited, or a generous-hearted citizen. [11]
The 'new chum' needs only the acquaintanceship of one of their number, and he becomes at once the happy recipient of numerous complimentary invitations and thoughtful kindnesses. [5]
I have read it, and read it again; and if there is a sentence in it that is not fulsomely complimentary to captain, ship and passengers, I can not find it. [5]
But she holds it on sufferance and by a complimentary construction of language which does not refer to her. [5]
I remember out in Sydney once having to respond to some complimentary toast, and my one desire was to turn in my tracks like any other worm --and run, for it. [5]
Oh Brass, Brass--my dear, good, affectionate, faithful, complimentary, charming friend--if I only had you here! [12]
I wish I dared quote more than the last two verses of these lines, which seemed to me, not unused to giving and receiving complimentary tributes, singularly happy, and were so considered by all who heard them. [6]
He said he could not be moved; that he was as fixed as the North Star, and proceeded to speak in the most complimentary terms of the firmness of that star and its steady character. [5]
He was prodigiously complimentary about some of my books, and is having Pudd'nhead read to him. [5]
The thickets of bushes that bordered its banks threw their shadows across its shallow, turbulent waters ("stormy," the hymn makes them, which is rather a complimentary stretch of fancy,) and we could not judge of the width of the stream by the eye. [5]
Nor shall a brilliant audience be lacking, for my complimentary visitors with their priestly splendor and array of arms will, it is to be hoped, arrive punctually. [10]
I have seen a lady lecturer urged and urged upon the public in a lavishly complimentary document signed by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and some others of supreme celebrity, but--there was nothing in her and she failed. [5]

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