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Updated: June 13, 2025
"In Philip's words," suggested her husband, "it would have been politer to have told us before they made up their minds!" Phyllis laughed. "I confess I rather agree with him," she said. "It was a little shock.
This, and a tear on All Souls' Day, when she has been to place a bunch of chrysanthemums on her baby's grave, are the only manifestations of sensibility that I have discovered in her. From the second of January to the second of November she is a human creature tied to a bell-rope, with an immovably stolid face and a monosyllabic vocabulary in which politer terms occur but sparsely.
From such men, brilliant in arms, have sprung descendants who have made their mark in a politer epoch, men and women who have become courtiers, companions of kings, leaders of men, pioneers of learning. Carved into these ancient houses in Beauvais are crests and mottoes which are the pride of these descendants now scattered over Europe.
I translated his command into politer terms, and we started again toward Gettysburg, knowing that Heth would follow with the other four brigades of the division. We found the enemy posted on a ridge just beyond Willoughby's Run, and deploying on both sides of the road we went into the engagement.
Things aren't a bit better for being fussed over. In fact Father says most things come out better in the end if they're left alone. 'Add salt to taste, and then serve. It would have been more sensible to say 'then eat." But I suppose serve is a politer word. By the way, have you any salt?" "Not a grain," said Miss Rutherford. "I entirely forgot the salt."
I expected every moment that my master would accuse the Yahoos of those unnatural appetites in both sexes, so common among us. But nature, it seems, has not been so expert a school-mistress; and these politer pleasures are entirely the productions of art and reason on our side of the globe. The author relates several particulars of the Yahoos. The great virtues of the Houyhnhnms.
But certain it is that a man with an old-fashioned Teutonic stomach a man who would have liked to dine off roast meat with Charles the Great or to breakfast off beef-steaks with Queen Elizabeth will find Norman diet, if not exactly answering to his ideal, yet coming far nearer to it than the politer repasts of Paris.
To assault a scoundrel so well-armed would have been the height of folly, and to tell the truth so imbued was I with the politer spirit of the gentle art of house-breaking that this sudden confrontation with the ruder, rough-house methods of the highwayman left me entirely unable to cope with the situation.
His son, to whom he spoke, sat in a sedan-chair which, delicately enamelled without, was as delicately upholstered within. Through the window of the chair, only the young man's face showed. If you had not known better you might have mistaken it for the face of a lady of an earlier, a politer, though not of a bloodier age. But you would have known better.
I am not sorry the small boy stuck his foot in. Millions of Americans though in a politer way are doing it all this week. We want to poke through to the truth. We want something more than a theater property Victory Arch, our soldier boys marching under it as if it were a real one!
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