It isn't Complimental, that's a fact.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
If they think it's Complimental, they are infarnally mistaken, that's all: it's an insult and nothin' else, makin' a fool of a body that way.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
But 'tis wonderful to see what curtseys and legs pass between us; and as before we were thought the kindest brother and sister, we are certainly the most Complimental couple in England.
"The-Love-Letters-of-Dorothy-Osborne-to-Sir-William-Temple-1652-54"
Osborne, Dorothy