He could have paid no greater compliment to David's mother.

No greater compliment could have been paid to a young student.

He realized that a great compliment had been paid him.

He had never seemed to want to play with me before, and I took it as a great compliment.

A great compliment, to tell her how battered she was looking.

But it is a great compliment coming from those men.

I know that one, and you couldn't have paid me a greater compliment.

It was as if, in not knowing, he'd paid her a great compliment.

I consider it a great compliment that he has given me this book.

That he had come to see her at all was a great compliment.