Urbane herself, she dwelt among urbanities; kindly, she everywhere met kindliness.
"Vera"
Elisabeth von Arnim
If he lacks the urbanities which embellish conversation, he is correspondingly free from the brutalities which degrade it.
"Americans and Others"
Agnes Repplier
There should be no scheming in the dark; no secret contracts for which we have to pay blindly;-no refusal to explain the way in which the people's hard-earned money is spent; and before foreign urbanities and diplomacies and concessions are allowed to take up time in the Senate, it is necessary that the frightful and abounding evils of our own land,-our own homes,-be considered.
"Temporal Power"
Marie Corelli