"Considerateness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Miss Howe.—Wonders not that her brother has weight to make her father irreconcilable.—Copy of Mr. Doleman's answer about London lodgings. Her caution in her choice of them. Lovelace has given her five guineas for Hannah. Other instances of his considerateness. Not displeased ...
— Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... somewhere in that body of adroit shufflers who were supposed to minister to his constitutional needs the confused cry of his conscience had evoked an echo. He saw under a high bald forehead kindly eyes watching him; and it was a kindly voice charged with considerateness which one day, over a matter in which time pressed, begged ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... Katherine. "We waited until you'd made a reputation for cleverness and been taken into a society. I think we were considerateness itself." ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... faculties—his imagination, his intelligence, his affections, his senses—had a hand in the game. It seemed to him that Eugenia and he had been very well treated; there was something absolutely touching in that combination of paternal liberality and social considerateness which marked Mr. Wentworth's deportment. It was most uncommonly kind of him, for instance, to have given them a house. Felix was positively amused at having a house of his own; for the little white cottage among the apple-trees—the chalet, ...
— The Europeans • Henry James
... speaking in his own person of his own paternal cares; but another Chinese, treating the same subject, records the munificence of this prince in terms which proclaim still more forcibly the disinterested generosity which prompted, and the delicate considerateness which conducted this extensive bounty. He has been speaking of the Kalmucks, and he goes on thus:—"Lorsqu'ils arrivrent sur nos frontires (au nombre de plusieurs centaines de mille), quoique la fatigue extrme, la faim, la soif, et toutes les autres incommodits insparables ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... I should thank you," she continued in the same pensiveness of manner. "I guess your unbroken reserve was meant for considerateness." ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... leaders of the chorus, that she'd had four proposals that summer. Gail's attitude of cynical frankness about her desire to collect scalps was something to make the average person gasp. She really meant it. She was, as Joy had discovered by this time, quite without malice—also quite without considerateness. ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer |
