This exceedingly plain expression is, so far from seeming gross or indelicate, considered as a very high compliment among Orientals.
In the East it considered a very high complimenton the part of a person of rank to present his guest with the remnants of his own dish.
For this reason the visitor, in this case, do not compliment his host on the beauty of his person or the splendour of his dress; but instead make use of the above exclamation.
The second wife of Emperor Franz, Maria Theresia, was a woman of much and true musical taste and culture, and Vigano determined to compliment her in a ballet composed expressly for that purpose.
In his opinion he paid the latter a high compliment when once he said to him that his playing was not that of a king or prince but more like that of a thoroughly good pianoforte player.
You have extended to me the greatest compliment a hospitable people can bestow on a stranger, and that is to give me your attention.
It was the timely application of a jocularcompliment that won from him this last effort of generosity.
The old eye twinkled at the blended compliment and jest.
He said it was very civil in the judges to offer such a compliment to a brother on the bench, and, of course, a respectful letter of acknowledgment must be sent.
If he hangs a man, he does not first draw his entrails and burn them before his eyes, with a mob crowding about to jeer the poor devil's flinching or to compliment him on his "nerve.
Often the young men, stimulated with more or less "moonshine," add the literally stunning compliment of a shivaree.
I'm not going to pick my words, or disguise my meaning, out ofcompliment to you.
It was a surprising compliment on the part of Sir James that he should have proposed to stay over another day.
The most elegant compliment that was paid to Addison, is of this obscure and perishable kind; When panting Virtue her last efforts made, You brought your Clio to the virgin's aid.
I waited that afternoon on Mrs. Squeeze, and poured out before her the flatteries which usually gain access to rank and beauty: I did not then know, that there are places in which the only compliment is a bribe.
She paid people the compliment of crediting them with astuteness, and thought it advisable to be not only more clever than they were stupid, but more clever than they were clever.
He spoke now with the lightness of an agreeable man of the world paying a compliment to a pretty woman.
And that phrase is a high compliment upon the lips of London, the city of parrots and of monkeys.
The greater the difficulty to you, the higher the compliment to the company.
In May, 1820, Scott received from both the English Universities the highest compliment which it was in their power to offer him.
He had his private joke for every old wife or "gausie carle," his arch compliment for the ear of every bonny lass, and his hand and his blessing for the head of every little Eppie Daidle from Abbotstown or Broomielees.
Pardon this side compliment to your Grace's little Jacobite, to whom you have always been so kind.
They have paid me the compliment to make me an honorary member of the corps, as my days of active service have been long over.
Is it necessary to justify such a compliment by examples?
Alas, my dear friend, what can the utmost efforts of friendship offer you, beyond the sympathy which, however sincere, must sound like an empty compliment in the ear of affliction?
Is it a crime to compliment a lover of justice, an advocate of liberty; one who devoted his life to the elevation of man, the discovery of truth, and the promulgation of what he believed to be right?
Is it a compliment to an infinite God to say that every being He ever made deserved to be damned the minute He had got him done, and that He will damn everybody He has not had a chance to make over?
Perhaps it would be impossible to pay him a grander compliment than to say, Castellio was in all things the opposite of Calvin.
The countess found his society so entertaining that she frequently visited him, a compliment he courteously returned.
Oates came in," he continues, "and made me a compliment that I was one that was marked out to be killed.
Many of them had the meanness to compliment me upon my speech.
In complimentto Mr. Cobbett’s untiring industry, and the abundant material provided for its exercise, Old Time had worn his fleetest pair of wings.
This may be a complimentto Mr. Westall, but it is not one to Walter Scott.
In saying that De Montfort was a character which just suited Mr. Kemble, I mean to pay a compliment to both.
His Sonnet to Schiller conveys a fine compliment to the author of the Robbers, and an equally fine idea of the state of youthful enthusiasm in which he composed it.
There had already been some among his fellow-citizens, or perhaps citizenesses, kind enough to compliment him on his good-nature.
But Max Bogen had not paid his wife a falsecompliment for cleverness.
The compliment to his roses, well-deserved as it was, did not at first engage his attention.
That compliment is not nearly so pretty as the sunrise one," said Mollie reflectively.
I tell you I could have swallowed that whole band, trombone and all, if such a compliment would have been any gratification to them.
To think that, after writing many an article a man might be excused for thinking tolerably good, those New York people should single out a villainous backwoods sketch to compliment me on!
A dog-feast is the greatest compliment a Dakota can offer to his guest; and knowing that to refuse eating would be an affront, we attacked the little dog and devoured him before the eyes of his unconscious parent.
What a fine complimentto the patience and forbearance of the mass of the negroes.
She paid her the marked compliment of receiving her on the threshold, at the street-door.
This had been done, not only in compliment to the noble boy to whose father the members were indebted for the privileges they enjoyed, but in anticipation of an exciting time on the lake, in a proposed race with the Butterfly.
The compliment was heartily returned by the Butterfly, and then the cheers were repeated again and again.
This compliment was promptly returned by the Butterfly, as she came alongside the Zephyr.
