"It was the courteous thing to do," one American official said.

He did the courteous thing, of course, and asked how her reading had gone.

The courteous and proper thing would have been to strike him dead.

"I guess the courteous thing to do would have been to call," Miller said.

He did a very courteous thing in going at once to appraise the Queen.

I didn't know what good being behind me would do in the event of a ricochet, but it seemed the courteous thing to say.

There wasn't anything pressing that needed to be done, though, and it was the courteous thing to do.

Nonetheless a courteous thing to do-I've felt like an animal in a zoo with no one to talk to.

It seemed the courteous thing, although only Del shared the lodge.

Still, I do the courteous thing and wave back.