1 Aside from this, there was a general feeling that the attempt to educate and civilize the red men at Hampton would be a failure.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 2 I don't want you to do anything but be civil to him and help to the pudding.
3 I'll do anything for you, Jo, if you'll only dress yourself nicely, and come and help me do the civil.
4 "You began the evening well, Charlotte," said Mrs. Bennet with civil self-command to Miss Lucas.
5 To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very favourable answer.
6 Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required.
7 That is all very proper and civil, I am sure," said Mrs. Bennet, "and I dare say she is a very agreeable woman.
8 In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.
9 Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her.
10 The housekeeper came; a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil, than she had any notion of finding her.
11 Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease.
12 It was more than civil; it was really attentive; and there was no necessity for such attention.
13 It was so dark that I could not see the means of exit; and, as I wandered round, I heard another specimen of their civil behaviour amongst each other.
14 I walked round the yard, and through a wicket, to another door, at which I took the liberty of knocking, in hopes some more civil servant might show himself.
15 These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.