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... go and speak to them,' I said; 'it would seem discourteous to be so near, and not speak to people who have shown me so ...

— "The Pomp of Yesterday" • Joseph Hocking

... so Scattergood always ended a conversation, abruptly, but as one became accustomed to it it was neither abrupt nor discourteous. ...

— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

... families in the place received permission to build a pew in which to sit. Here also such indignant and violent protests were made by the young men that the selectmen were obliged to revoke the permission. It would be interesting to know the bachelors' discourteous objections to young women being allowed to own a pew, but no record of their reasons is given. Bachelors were so restricted and governed in the colonies that perhaps they resented the thought of any independence being allowed to single women. Single men could not live alone, but ...

— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle

... he was commanding himself; his tone was not quite discourteous, but he had none of the genial satisfaction which he ordinarily showed in the company of refined people. She attributed his displeasure to her neglect of Alice. But it did not affect her as it had been wont to; she was disposed ...

— Demos • George Gissing

... which the Greeks welcomed the dead body of Hector, did not fail to welcome Guynemer's end. At the end of three weeks a coarse and discourteous paean was sung in the Woche. In its issue of October 6, this paper devoted to Guynemer, under the title "Most Successful French Aviator Killed," an article whose lying cowardice is enough to disgrace ...

— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux

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