genteel

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• Preserving the spirit of that era is the Claremont Hotel, a genteel 1884 rambler in the Quiet Side town of Southwest Harbor.

• Recline against your genteel friend as unobtrusively you can.

• These nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late-19th century culture.

• Champion Hill, where the book is set, is two quiet roads of genteel-looking houses, first settled in the 18th century.

• This racial balancing act makes Belle one of the most genteel yet uncomfortable depictions of racism ever to grace the screen.

• The Daily Pic: Steve Mumford's genteel watercolors capture the hard truths of Gitmo.

• Mischievous, more bite than bark in the sense that it was mordant with minimal rhetoric, Heaney was not genteel.

• "I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.

• In those days, such a cage was considered a very genteel ornament for a New England kitchen.

• Board and lodging in a genteel house, five-and-twenty Louis annually.

• This day a genteel woman came to me, claiming kindred of me, as she had once done before, and borrowed 10s.

• The more worshippers take up their quarters mainly on the ground floor—at the back of the central seats and at the sides.