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Updated: May 27, 2025
He presented strength in a lower form than did the Master from whom his strength came. The willow has a beauty as well as the oak. Firmness is not obstinacy; courage is not rudeness. It is possible to have the iron hand in the velvet glove, not of etiquette-observing politeness, but of a true considerateness and gentleness.
The motives of most of them can have been nothing higher than what leads vulgar people of all ranks and countries to buzz about distinguished men, utterly regardless of delicacy or considerateness. They want to see the notoriety, no matter what it costs him.
This considerateness and scrupulosity may be chivalrous, but they form an irksome drag on a nation at war with Teutons. The two ships were at once transferred by Germany to the Turks.
It was a special thing for this sister who had been a stately young lady of twenty when he was a bad little boy of ten. She had watched him, admiring yet rather aghast, ever since then. To the world at large his social charm lay in or was at least inseparable from his really exquisite manners, his considerateness, the touch of old-fashioned punctilio there was about him.
With a population unparalleled in its increase, and possessing a character which combines the hardihood of enterprise with the considerateness of wisdom, we see in every section of our happy country a steady improvement in the means of social intercourse, and correspondent effects upon the genius and laws of our extended Republic.
"I suppose I should thank you," she continued in the same pensiveness of manner. "I guess your unbroken reserve was meant for considerateness." "Under the circumstances," he replied, a shade piqued by her tone, "anything else might have been embarrassing for you." With eyes traveling seaward she spoke again and there was a ghost of quiet irony in her voice.
With much freedom of manners, he combined a spontaneous courtesy that never failed, and a considerateness derived from a ceaseless kindness of heart that invariably fascinated even strangers."
If, then, we possess the spirit to be reconciled with an offended or an offending brother, there are some things which may be said about the tactics of renewing the broken tie. There is needed a certain tactful considerateness. In all such questions the grace of the act depends as much on the manner of it, as on the act itself.
There was no evidence of those qualities which I feared to find, and his attitude was one of unfailing kindness, considerateness, and generosity. In the many talks I had with him, I was always struck by his evident devotion to a fixed code of personal conduct.
"These two Indians here can make a hustle to get some kind of a litter." Now she could go. That was her one crying thought: She could go! And again he came to her rescue with his smiling considerateness. "You have missed your breakfast, I'll warrant," he said to her. "Please don't wait.
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