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Definition of Courtesies
1. courtesy [v] - See also: courtesy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Courtesies
Literary usage of Courtesies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Child Training: A System of Education for the Child Under School Age by Virgil Mores Hillyer (1915)
"Formal drills as with habit drills can be given for each of these courtesies,
without waiting for the occasion or opportunity to arise. 1. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"THE courtesies OF WAR. Is making use of the trite phrase of " the horrors of
war," none except soldiers are fully aware of what is comprised in that ..."
3. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1901)
"... The Spray floated but somewhat damaged — courtesies from the British consul
at Maldonado — A warm greeting at Montevideo — An excursion to Buenos Aires ..."
4. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"For, courtesies to noble minds are the most extreme extortions that can be.
Favours thus imparted, are not gifts, but purchases, that buy men out of their ..."
5. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"... AND BARRICADES—THRONGED STREETS—SENOR DON FREDERICO DERBYSHIRE—" OUR HOST"—A
WELCOME—OFFICIAL courtesies—OUR QUARTERS—FIRST NIGHT IN GRANADA. ..."
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