Civility such as his and violence such as he suggested were incongruous.
If his civilityhad disarmed her earlier in the day, if she had been able to speak lightly of the threat of her imprisonment, the fear that had always been in her heart was now a blind terror--not of the man's passions but of his lack of them.
There was a latent cruelty under his air of civility which astonished and terrified her.
She endeavoured to repress this by more than her usual reserve, but the cold civility of her air now seemed rather to encourage than to depress him.
Madame Montoni seemed to assume the air of a princess; but Montoni was restless and discontented, and did not even observe the civility of bidding her welcome to her home.
He carried his disinterestedcivility further; and, from some quarter, procured me a chair.
I confined myself, therefore, to the remark that I had merely met with civility; and asked "what she saw in civility to throw the recipient into a fever of confusion?
The professor now spoke politely, and even deferentially, and he looked apologetic and repentant; but I could not recognise his civility at a word, nor meet his contrition with crude, premature oblivion.
By a disastrous chance the Jacksons were down there too, and a good deal of constrained civility had to pass between the two families.
Everything with him was graduated--carefully graduated civility towards his superior, towards his inferiors carefully graduated incivility.
It is also a civilitythat can be readily interchanged, which in itself gives it an advantage over all other civilities.
Luncheon is a very useful institution to a mistress of a house, as it enables her to show a considerable amount of civility to her friends and acquaintances.
He lived on terms of civility with men of all parties.
Mr. Burke saw me," she says, "and he bowed with the most markedcivility of manner.
He had been advised not to show the smallest civility to the Dean of St. Patrick's.
Nothing," says he, "is better known of Boileau than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt of modern Latin; and therefore his profession of regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than approbation.
They missed there the constant, sweet civility of Carlsbad, and found themselves falling flat in their endeavors for a little cordiality.
Rob Roy maintained a cold haughty civility during their short conference, and so soon as he had left the house.
This gentleman was named Lane, "a very zealous Protestant, yet he lived with so much civility and candour towards the Catholics, that they would all trust him as much as they would any of their own profession.
You bear witness that only the most innocent civility ever passed between your brother and my poor young wife?
Shah Soojah would not see the man whom he had ingloriously supplanted, on the pretext that he 'could not bring himself to show common civility to such a villain.
Lord and Lady Granville have met with nothing but remarkablecivility from all classes.
When Master Thompson advanced to the governor, he was told abruptly, and without even the ordinary civility which is due from one gentleman to another, to make his way to the rear as a prisoner.
Before he had come to an end of the line, and when it must have been made plain that not one of the Regulators cared to bestow the commonest civility upon him, he espied Sandy Wells.
He came close up to her, scarcely according her the civility of greeting.
But let me advise you to study civility while in my power.
I wish every ane were o' your way o' thinking; but I find this auld coat and thae clouted shoon nae great recommendations to civility onywhere.
Rue de la Paix, where they will also find almost every publication they are likely to require, and will meet with the utmost civility and attention.
Derhorter, called the Hôtel Bourbon, the most comfortable and economical, and the civility of the master cannot anywhere be surpassed.
An ambassador from shore soon solved the mystery, by coming to beg so much powder as would serve to answer my civility with becoming respect.
The Cid had borne me by this time into the middle of the throng about the gateway, who, wondering to see a stranger of my appearance arrive without attendants, eyed me with a mixture of civility and forwardness.
He took it, and promised to do so, smoothly, and with as much lip-civility as I had a right to expect.
I'd like to know why not," he replied with more civility than the bare words as quoted can convey.
