Hardly spoke a civil word to him or each other before they were hard at it, fighting like children.

He sent out the man with a civil word, and called me to him.

One can't get a civil word out of him.

Get them talking about each other, however, and they can scarcely utter a civil word.

Strange that he hadn't spoken a civil word to her since he'd come home.

He and Jack hadn't exchanged a civil word in over three years.

Phil hasn't addressed a civil word to us in weeks.

Besides, he can't even bring himself to say a civil word to her.

Then he looked away again, without a civil word.

He scarcely noticed anybody else, and you couldn't get a civil word out of him.