And I will gladly do all in my power to help you," replied this very complaisant lady.
These prelates either did not believe Richard had murdered his nephews, or were shamefullycomplaisant themselves.
In the former all the people are complaisant but the publicans; in the latter there is hardly any complaisance but among the publicans.
It is a very odd contrast between France and England; in the former all the people are complaisant but the publicans; in the latter there is hardly any complaisance but among the publicans.
A complaisant subaltern had at last obeyed the captain's repeated orders.
All the day long she busied herself with her multifarious duties, and was particularly cheerful; in the evening she showed herself most complaisant towards the two young men who were her guests.
I believe she had," replied the duke, with careless naivete and a complaisant forgetfulness, of which no words could translate the tone and the vocal expression.
He was equally cold and equally complaisant on the Mount of Olives.
That's very kind of you, and very complaisant of her.
The masters of the stage objected to it in that form; and, it being all the same to the complaisant Sir William, he converted his tragedy into a comedy!
The self-complaisant way in which he used to utter "Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in his day," was universally imitated, and has made the phrase itself proverbial.
I have observed, of late, a change of conduct in the Russian Ambassador at this Court, whom I have an opportunity of meeting frequently in company; from being cold and distant, he is complaisant and affable.
Philippe de Commines delineates in his memoirs an ambassador as ‘a complaisant man, who takes liberties with things and words in order to attain his end.
This was put forward as one potent reason why the French were complaisant about yielding us the Bay itself.
Groseilliers had thus to reckon with the new fur-trading proprietors of Quebec, who were to prove themselves less complaisant than the old.
If you would save his life, little Asse, it can only be by being friendly and complaisanttowards his master and judge; and such, in truth, am I.
You know we did not make great progress with the complaisant clerk who was to make us book-learned.
When Mikolai comes back from the army and marries, I'll rub it into him, too, 'Take a complaisant wife.
In April, 1599, this boy was legitimated by letters-patent, which were duly registered by the complaisant Parlement of Paris.
You are at least," she answered sharply, "a very complaisant one.
My Lord has been in one, and as I am the most complaisant poor creature in the world, I put myself into one too, purely to be suitable company to him.
But to come upon a poor woman with the gloomy face of jealousy, before she gives the least occasion for't, is to set a complaisant rival in too favourable a light.
