1 There were some Polish exiles, political prisoners, among them.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 2 Porfiry Petrovitch saw them to the door with excessive politeness.
3 Katerina Ivanovna took it and gave him a polite, even ceremonious, bow.
4 "He's a political conspirator, there's not a doubt about it," Razumihin decided, as he slowly descended the stairs.
5 If there is a scandal in your honourable house once again, I will put you yourself in the lock-up, as it is called in polite society.
6 He only ate from politeness, just tasting the food that Katerina Ivanovna was continually putting on his plate, to avoid hurting her feelings.
7 I must add that he expressed it more nicely and politely than I have done, for I have forgotten his actual phrases and only remember the meaning.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 8 "Raskolnikov, a student, I came here a month ago," the young man made haste to mutter, with a half bow, remembering that he ought to be more polite.
9 I can have no other opinion of your daughter's future husband," Razumihin answered firmly and with warmth, "and I don't say it simply from vulgar politeness, but because.
10 I kissed the dust at his feet--in thought only, for in reality he would not have allowed me to do it, being a statesman and a man of modern political and enlightened ideas.
11 Pyotr Petrovitch belonged to that class of persons, on the surface very polite in society, who make a great point of punctiliousness, but who, directly they are crossed in anything, are completely disconcerted, and become more like sacks of flour than elegant and lively men of society.