1 "Those are my orders, and they must be obeyed," said the footman, confronting Chichikov with none of that politeness with which, on former occasions, he had hastened to divest our hero of his wrappings.
2 'You are looking at pictures from politeness, Yevgeny Vassilyitch,' she began.
3 Set your friend's mind at rest, said he without altering his tone, beneath the politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could be discerned.
4 And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.
5 Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.
6 From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip.
7 Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled.
8 Przebyszewski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in attention.
9 One of the Frenchmen, with the politeness characteristic of his countrymen, addressed the obstinately taciturn Rostov, saying that the latter had probably come to Tilsit to see the Emperor.
10 Apart from considerations of politeness which demanded the call, he wanted to see that original, eager girl who had left such a pleasant impression on his mind, in her own home.
11 She greeted the father and daughter with special politeness and showed them to the princess' room.
12 One would think mere politeness required it.
13 Her first glance at Nicholas' face told her that he had only come to fulfill the demands of politeness, and she firmly resolved to maintain the tone in which he addressed her.
14 But on this occasion the precaution was superfluous, and everything proceeded with the utmost smoothness and politeness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 15 The young officer bowed with easy and elegant politeness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.