Crossword-Solution: RESPECTFULNESS 14 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

His pride was ushered back to its throne by the respectfulness of Oley Sundquist: “Evenin', doc! The woman is a lot better.

Montague was very fond of hearing him talk: he paid her the familiar respect which a lady of fallen fortunes, at a certain period after the fall, enjoys as a befittingly sad souvenir, and the respectfulness of the lord of the house was more chilling.

The thought in each mind was the same: “What a strange resemblance!” The Lord Protector reflected a moment or two in perplexity, then he said, with grave respectfulness-- “By your favour, sir, I desire to ask certain questions which--” “I will answer them, my lord.” The Duke asked him many questions about the Court, the late King, the prince, the princesses--the boy answered them correctly and without hesitating.

Ingenious Jordan, Inspector of the Poor at Berlin,--his thousand old women at their wheels humming pleasantly in the background of our imaginations, though he says nothing of that,--writes twice a week to his Majesty: pleasant gossipy Letters, with an easy respectfulness not going into sycophancy anywhere; which keep the campaigning King well abreast of the Berlin news and rumors: something like the essence of an Old Newspaper; not without worth in our present Enterprise.

And though he never failed to maintain externally a certain gentle respectfulness of demeanour towards me, yet it was more the natural deference of the younger to the elder, of the strong to the weak, than the duty paid by a serving-lad to his master's son.