Complimented

Examples

• He knew as well as I did that it was just as likely, at that time of year, I was going down there whaling; but I felt complimented, too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She gave her evidence in the gamest way, and was highly complimented by the Bench, and cheered right home to her lodgings. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• At two o'clock he bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had written, and locked the door of the office after me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Go to my father if you want to be complimented. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You complimented me two minutes since on my powerful mind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am accustomed to be complimented by strangers as the--ha--Father of the Marshalsea. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Captain Keeldar was complimented on his taste; the compliment charmed him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You complimented me on my ready memory not long since, but you seem to doubt it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When I complimented him on his Metamorphosis, he declined to take it as a joke. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mrs. Gardiner then rallied her niece on Wickham's desertion, and complimented her on bearing it so well. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Shakspeare never was complimented with a finer pair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Well, he's going to ask the whole gang,--I hardly felt complimented by the word,--and whatever he gives you, he'll give you good. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was the first time it had ever been so complimented, and Madame Defarge knew enough of its antecedents to know better. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Becky complimented him upon that dress and admired him almost as much as his own wife and children, to whom he displayed himself before he set out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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