Besides, the common civility of speech, contrasted with the gross vulgarity to which I had been accustomed, was something like the polish of civilization.

It must be a family characteristic," Clayton observed sardonically, "to ignore the common civilities and make unsolicited observations instead.

Don't they teach common civility to folks in Camelot?

Apparently, something that can't be said with common civility?

Day is an emblem of sunshine, communion with nature and animals, and common civility.

As for the governess, she is a woman, and should be treated with common civility.

It was only common civility.

They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required.

' That neither did she, but she did expect common civility.'

Yet they had never exchanged more words than the common civilities in all the four years of college.