Then we must go a great way back, and begin with our grandfathers, with the ancestors who freed us from Great Britain, but did not free themselves from the illusion that equality resides in incivility and honesty in bluntness.
You can have no idea of the incivilityin which old Peter Stadinger's whole nature is steeped.
There was a choice of risks: the risk of behaving with extraordinary incivility and unhandsomeness to a lady, and the risk of going on a fool's errand.
That is always another word for incivility at sea; so we can disregard a hail or a flag of distress, without attracting notice.
After what you have heard, I hope you will pardon my seeming incivility during the course of my illness, in giving you my left instead of my right hand.
She saw, indeed, many Stumfoldians, but it seemed that their eyes looked at her harshly, and she was quite sure that the coachmaker's wife treated her with marked incivility as they left the porch together.
As to any charge of incivility which might attach to her for not returning the visit of a lady who had been so civil to her, of that she thought nothing.
The Henkyl Hunters were no "chuffs", no conundrums, with the strange riddle of incivility up a sleeve.
Pemrose; Jack at a Pinch had made gorgeous his incivility and was parading it before her eyes.
He found his hotel a den of incivilityand his dinner "a squashy, sloppy meal.
And when people pay as they go, and spend their money like gentlemen, I am sure nobody can accuse me of any incivility since I have been in the office.
I am sure the captain can't say that I have shewn him any manner of incivility since he hath been here.
To the Chancellor's habitual incivility and insolence it is allowed that Arden always responded with dignity and self-command, humiliating his powerful and ungenerous adversary by invariable good-breeding.
Thurlow's incivility to the solicitor reminds us of the cruel answer given by another great lawyer to a country attorney, who, through fussy anxiety for a client's interests, committed a grave breach of professional etiquette.
Lady riders are seldom obliged to complain of the incivility of a passer-by.
He also considered that it was a species of incivility when seated at a meal to ask for some dish which was at the other end of the table, instead of taking what was close at hand.
We then gained instant admission, and the lady was greatly reprimanded by her husband for her incivility and indiscreet behaviour.
I am afraid Gaffer Rutledge has not confined his incivility to language--Are you sure he did not give you a beating?
I think perhaps Mr. Amherst's incivility toward you arose from his dislike to your mother's marriage.
The eyes of the young noble first rested upon the boy; but immediately turning towards the elder of his two visitors, he advanced towards him, without noticing the apparent incivility of his demeanour.
To be left alone when I have no mind to talk," said Diogenes with a smile which was so pleasant, so merry, so full of self-deprecating irony that it tempered the incivility of his reply.
I crave your pardon, sir," said Diogenes somewhat more seriously, "my incivility is unwarrantable in the face of your courtesy.
Here the door opens to admit Sir Guy and Cyril, who are driven to desperation and afternoon tea by the incivility of the weather.
