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Sentences starting with compliments

Compliments sound strangely on your lips. [9]
Compliments always embarrass a man. [5]

Sentences ending with compliments

They say that you cannot live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. [5]
I was charged with "rushing into print" with these compliments. [5]
If I undertook--to pay compliments I would do it stronger than any others have done it, for what Mr. Carnegie wants are strong compliments. [5]
Gen. Schofield, and other historic men, paid their compliments. [5]
In my remarks of welcome of Admiral Harrington I am not going to give him compliments. [5]
The newsmonger is of the number, but his manner is not quite hearty--there is something of surliness in his compliments. [12]
It is one of Hamilton Mabie's compliments. [5]
They fished for no compliments. [5]
Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Porter have paid me many compliments. [5]
Are you paying me compliments? [13]

Short sentences using compliments

General Grant paid me compliments. [5]
I like compliments. [5]

Sentences containing compliments two or more times

It is embarrassing to get compliments and compliments and only compliments, particularly when he knows as well as the rest of us that on the other side of him there are all sorts of things worthy of our condemnation. [5]
The gentleman who had been appointed to pay me the customary compliments and to introduce me forgot the compliments, and did not know what they were. [5]

More example sentences with the word compliments in them

But I thank you for the compliment in a land where compliments are few. [11]
It is hard work to make a speech when you have listened to compliments from the powers in authority. [5]
I have listened with the greatest pleasure to the compliments which the chairman has paid to Mr. Rogers and that road of his to-night, and I hope some of them are deserved. [5]
The preliminary sparring was an exchange of compliments, and deceived neither party. [9]
It was sad to see his name disappear from the newspapers; sadder still to see it resurrected at intervals, shorn of its aforetime gaudy gear of compliments and clothed on with rhetorical tar and feathers. [5]
And my compliments to Mr. MacMuir, and ask him for a suit of clothes. [9]
Colonel Sprowle's compliments to Mr. Langdon and requests the pleasure of his company at a social entertainment on Wednesday evening next. [6]
Give my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle Bourienne. [2]
Mackenzie?--and I beg to make my sincere compliments to you, also, for your infinite kindnesses to me. [5]
Philip had dreaded to come to the office that morning and encounter the inquisition and perhaps the compliments of his fellow-clerks. [4]
And in doing these things the Government also compliments itself; it has not been the custom of the world for conquerors to act in this large spirit toward the conquered. [5]
And Honora, following their glances, beheld the two ladies, in the negligee referred to above, with their elbows on the railing of the upper hall and their faces between their hands, engaged in a lively exchange of compliments with the gentlemen. [9]
The guide-book names the preserver of the legend, and compliments his 'facile pen. [5]
In a sense the dead man was himself; in that case compliments and affection lavished upon that corpse went into his own till and were clear profit. [5]
I will do that in a quiet time, when there is not anything going on, and when I shall not be called upon to deliver intemperate compliments on a railroad in which I own no stock. [5]
The Turks, who taught Europe the art of civilized war, behaved all this time in a courtly and chivalric manner, exchanging with the besiegers wordy compliments until such time as the latter were ready to begin. [4]
My modesty won't suffer while compliments are being paid to literature, and through literature to my family. [5]
I am not stingy in compliments to him myself. [5]
I hate the smooth compliments of your macaronies. [9]
But in another sense the dead man was not himself; and in that case all compliments and affection lavished there were wasted, and a sufficient basis for jealousy. [5]
And George Augustus Sala came in at the last moment, just when I was about to go without compliments altogether. [5]
Will you please present my compliments to Mrs. De Winton and Mrs. [5]
The first four pages are devoted to an inflamed eulogy of Woman--simply woman in general, or perhaps as an institution --wherein, among other compliments to her details, he pays a unique one to her voice. [5]
He went through on that purely superficial 'cram', and got compliments, too, while others, who knew a thousand times more than he, got plucked. [5]
He's left compliments on my hands that no decent man would. [8]
Then the insolence of the thing began to work upon him, and he was about to burst forth, when the Duke came forward, and politely moving a chair near to the young commander, said: "My distinguished compliments, monsieur le capitaine. [11]
Therefore, pray do not sink your real character in paying unmeaning compliments to me. [12]
I must pay my compliments to-morrow. [9]
It seemed to me that my lady was tiring of the doctor's compliments, and had transferred her fickle favour to young Mr. Fitzhugh, who was much more worthy, by the way. [9]
I've said so many times when a chairman has distressed me with just such compliments that the next time such a thing occurs I will certainly use a gun on that chairman. [5]
I do not make any pretence that I dislike compliments. [5]
He bowed very low and said: "Ladies, the General's compliments, and he begs that this much of the sidewalk may be kept clear for a few moments. [9]
Evan Butler is jealous that you never send your compliments to him. [7]
I didn't borrow it, for all that.--I made a comparison at table some time since, which has often been quoted and received many compliments. [6]
That same question is the highest compliment a man can pay a woman, and a woman does not mind having a dozen or more such compliments to string on the rosary of her remembrances. [6]
We are unanimous in the pride we take in good and genuine compliments paid us, and distinctions conferred upon us, in attentions shown. [5]
When in England I said that I would start to collect compliments, and I began there and I have brought some of them along. [5]
No, no, monsieur, I know you are about to say something very gracious: but no, you shall pay your compliments to the ladies. [11]
They were complimenting him there; there it was all compliments, and none of them deserved. [5]
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die: "Ah, you have had experience! [5]
She could not help liking Janet Duncan, mere flesh and blood not being proof against such compliments. [9]
And with it he got a perfect ovation in the way of compliments. [5]
I think I have lost so much by not making a collection of compliments, to put them away and take them out again once in a while. [5]
Monsieur de St. Gre sends his compliments, and wishes to know if you will pardon his absence this morning. [9]
And Richard," he goes on to me, "send my compliments to Dr. Drake, and request him to come at once. [9]
Those people who get no compliments like that feel like that. [5]
I tried to gather up its compliments to send to you, but the work was distasteful and I dropped it. [5]
Now arrived Dunois from the city, and plunged through the battle on his foam-flecked horse and galloped up to Joan, saluting, and uttering handsome compliments as he came. [5]
I thank everybody for their compliments, but I don't think that I am praised any more than I am entitled to be. [5]
At that moment Falby entered and said: "Her ladyship's compliments, and all the guests have arrived, sir. [11]
After this pretty exchange of compliments, the governor smiled, and offered her his arm to the door, where our 'char a bans' awaited us. [11]
Go and arrange everything--and give him my heartiest compliments. [5]
The man himself entered immediately, and said that Mrs. Falchion sent her compliments, and would I come at once to see her companion, Miss Caron, who had injured herself. [11]
Attention and deference don't require you to make fine speeches expressing your sense of unworthiness (lies) and returning all the compliments paid you. [6]
It is very difficult to take compliments. [5]
I beg you convey to Mr. Pitt my most obedient compliments, and say that I take his polite wish as my command. [11]
Say, Colonel Stafford's compliments to the General Commanding and he will report himself at once. [11]
They presented their compliments to the distinguished citizen of Cologne, and placed their table at the service of the newcomer. [10]
I made my compliments to the colonel and had them shown to the library fire, and hurried down after them. [9]
But, after all, compliments should be in order in a place like this. [5]
He made me compliments on you, --said that you were a man, sir, though a trifle hasty: in the which I agreed. [9]
And though her colour glowed deeper, and the wind had loosed a wisp of her hair, she took his Excellency's compliments undisturbed. [9]
He had a chemical quality of turning invidious remarks into compliments, and he took this one as Victoria's manner of saying that she did not wish to disturb so important a man. [9]
After this, with cheerful compliments, and the perfunctory declaration on his part that there was nothing dutiable on board, the officers left him, greatly pleased with his courtesy, saluted by the sailors standing at the gangway as they left the ship's side. [11]
I do not care whether you deserve the compliments or not, it is just as difficult to take them. [5]
And so it came about that the other articles were returned to Colonel Carvel with the marshal's compliments, and put back into the cold parlor where they had stood for many years. [9]
Many compliments have been paid to Mr. Carnegie to-night. [5]
I am not bandying compliments now, but thinking of better things than praises or phrases. [6]
There was another argument with the chauffeur, a little more animated than the first; more greasy plugs taken out and wiped, and a sharper exchange of compliments with the crowd; more grinding, until the chauffeur's face was steeped in perspiration, and more pistol shots. [9]
No modest person, and I was born one, can talk on compliments. [5]
Chapter 19 Brown and I Exchange Compliments Two trips later, I got into serious trouble. [5]
I thought you'd allow me to pay my compliments to you. [12]
A lot of accounts have been settled here tonight for me; I have held grudges against some of these people, but they have all been wiped out by the very handsome compliments that have been paid me. [5]
Everybody saw in a moment how true this was, and how wise; so Lyman got a great many compliments. [5]

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