Examples of 'Amiable' in a Sentence

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• "Madame your wife is so amiable as to insist on showing me her pearl necklace," explained the latter.
• You are too amiable, madame.
• "You are too amiable, madame."
• Then that person is a most amiable person.
• "She is very amiable, then, is she not?" said Albert.
• Well, amiable Corsican, let us suppose it is Providence.
• "If I tell you one thing, you will be so amiable as to set aside all impediments."
• But Fernand, instead of responding to this amiable gesture, remained mute and trembling.
• Do you think him handsome and amiable enough to be willing to marry him?
• You have been extremely amiable to come.
• As for Sophia, she preserved a mien of amiable cheerfulness.
• She seemed to be of an amiable disposition, and not averse from the lighter distractions.
• "That would be very amiable on your part," Madame Foucault managed at last to reply, not very articulately.
• He was still smiling in the most amiable manner.
• "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing.
• As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded.
• Nice, amiable people, Watson!
• Having carefully studied every detail of the quaint personality Polly felt more amiable.
• Your amiable reception of me at our last meeting still dwells pleasantly in my memory.
• I lov'd him, notwithstanding, for he had many amiable qualities.
• He's amiable to you!
• "You'd make an amiable stepmother-in-law!"
• I think I never knew a more angelically amiable disposition in my life!
• On a nearer view, Major Stuart proved himself a man of most amiable character.
• Mademoiselle, you are so amiable!
• Some amiable gardener sells them.
• My amiable friend,' said I, 'I never have any money.
• But however, but however, he might have had amiable intentions.
• An amiable bull who is determined to make every colour scarlet!
• "My amiable child," murmured Mr. Turveydrop, adjusting his cravat.
• Ah! amiable indeed!
• The amiable creature with the polished head told me a long story, which I think was about gardening.
• 'You would do something, whatever you were, my dear Traddles,' thought I, 'that would be pleasant and amiable.
• Mrs. Pocket instantly showed much amiable emotion, and said, "This is that odious Sophia's doing!"
• He had not a handsome face, but it was better than handsome: being extremely amiable and cheerful.
• It was his amiable nature.
• Amiable and dear little Twoshoes!
• I am playful; playfulness is a part of my amiable character.
• She had what they called an amiable temper, an affectionate temper.
• I have known many adventurers; interesting spirits--amiable society!
• Rigaud Lagnier Blandois, my amiable subject, you will get your money.
• Come, sir,' said Rugg, 'I will put it on the lowest ground of argument, and say, Amiable?'
• And so the amiable couple parted.
• 'He seems an amiable fellow.'
• So you may judge how amiable he is, by running your eye along his heighth.
• 'Bless you, sir, there's not a bit of him,' returned Betty, 'that's not amiable.
• And arter all, my Lord," says he, "it's a amiable weakness.
• 'Amiable man that 'ere, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, smoking violently.
• Now, don't allow yourself to be fatigued beyond your powers; there's a amiable bein'.
• He's a-keepin' guard in the lane vith that 'ere dark lantern, like a amiable Guy Fawkes!
• The young ladies laughed very heartily, and the old one tried to look amiable, but couldn't manage it.
• She had taken an amiable caprice to me.
• Mrs. Fairfax seemed to think it necessary that some one should be amiable, and she began to talk.
• She was quite amiable.
• "She doesn't look very amiable," he replied.
• But the woman was amiable, and directed them.
• Yet she was perfectly amiable, but indifferent, and rather hard.
• 'Not in the least,' the Phoenix replied, in a tone of amiable regret.
• He kept turkeys and guinea fowls, and was a most amiable man.
• The Psammead, however, was unexpectedly amiable.
• 'My amiable lady!'
• Where is she--my amiable lady?
• 'She does not seem so amiable,' I thought, 'as Mrs. Dean would persuade me to believe.
• 'They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
• Often, also, do they show themselves to thee as amiable ones.
• Ah, thou amiable fool, Zarathustra, thou too-blindly confiding one!
• They looked much more amiable, almost cordial.
• Home, home, I'll eat at home, I don't feel equal to it here, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, my amiable relative.
• Totski immediately made some amiable remark.
• Pure amiable curiosity,--I assure you--desire to do a service.
• Evgenie Pavlovitch and Prince S. suddenly grew extremely gay and amiable.
• "Nicolai Ardalionovitch!" said Lebedeff, in a most amiable tone of voice, addressing the boy.
• Nastasia, however, smiled amiably; but Varia did not try to look amiable, and kept her gloomy expression.
• The hurricane is succeeded by a zephyr of amiable surprise.
• An elderly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella.
• He is an amiable man, an able preacher, and has been longer among us.
• The amiable artist carried his sting, but Ladislaw did not choose to appear stung.
• Jasper has shown himself in an unusually amiable light since we left town.
• "Possibly a worse one," replied the amiable Creole.
• "Oh! no," protested Raoul, whereupon Clotilde turned upon him with a perfectly amiable, nurse's grimace for silence.
• I am impatient to see you, and likewise this amiable man.
• I am both pleased and instructed by the conduct of this amiable woman.
• I believe, too, that I have charmed the eye, at least, of the amiable Eliza.
• Never more shall we behold this once amiable companion, this once innocent and happy girl.
• Can you expect sincerity from the man who withholds it from an amiable and deserving wife?
• Yesterday, my dear friend, Lucy Freeman, gave her hand to the amiable and accomplished Mr. George Sumner.
• But no matter how comic the exaggeration, these legends were invariably amiable.
• "No, and there's no good going into it now," put in Sister Soulsby, with amiable decisiveness.
• "You!" growled Haley, in no amiable mood.
• This woman was not very amiable in her person.
• Showing who the amiable lady, and her unamiable maid, were.
• The amiable Sophia was now in her eighteenth year, when she is introduced into this history.
• Nor is their conduct towards their relations and friends less amiable than towards one another.
• The whole thoughts, therefore, of both the brothers were how to engage the affections of this amiable lady.
• Mrs. Penniman was truly amiable, but she now gave signs of temper.
• He will be an idle, amiable, selfish, and doubtless tolerably good-natured fellow.
• You are an honest, amiable girl, and an intelligent young man might easily find it out.
• "The feeling is natural, and amiable," said he.
• Mr Best came forward, amiable, towards his colleague.
• Demimondaines nicely handsome sparkling of diamonds very amiable costumed.
• Thrice happy will he be whom so amiable a creature will bless with her favours.
• I never met with a disposition more truly amiable.
• He is a most amiable, charming young man, I believe.
• I have no doubt of his being a most amiable young man.
• Some of the objects of his curiosity spoke very amiable feelings.
• Miss Campbell always was absolutely plain--but extremely elegant and amiable.
• No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English.
• I remember once calling you 'George,' in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago.
• He professed himself extremely anxious about her fair friend--her fair, lovely, amiable friend.
• "What an amiable creature I was!--No wonder you should hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance."
• It has never worn an amiable form to me.
• I shall see no one half so amiable where I am going.
• There had been something remarkably amiable about her.
• She never appeared more amiable than in her behaviour to you last night.
• Your sister is an amiable creature; but yours is the character of decision and firmness, I see.
• He is perfectly amiable.
• I wish I could call her amiable.
• He is a sweet-tempered, amiable, charming man.
• Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves.
• "In what an amiable light does this place him!" thought Elizabeth.
• He must know that she was as amiable and unpretending as we have found her.
• He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all.
• Is she said to be amiable?
• It implies everything amiable.
• Edward is very amiable, and I love him tenderly.
• I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
• She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent.
• Yet, as I have said, when on shore she was kind-hearted and amiable enough.
• Gertrud would like to see me in the fine clothes which the most amiable Herr has given me.
• He had always been an amiable chap.
• She accorded it in pleasant words and with the most amiable of smiles.
• There was an amiable fascination in the sympathetic grey eyes and the persuasive smile.
• "They have already acquired the love of individual liberty," said this amiable optimist.
• She was as corrupt as possible without self-reproach, and as amiable as possible without self-restraint.
• No one could have been more discreet, more corruptly sagacious, more sunnily amiable, than this singular woman.
• She was amiable, pains-taking, petting, slightly exacting, slightly critical, moderately chatty, moderately loving.
• As for Mrs. Whitewood, amiable woman and excellent housewife, though an invalid, her conversational faculty consisted in listening.
• She saw him amiable, attractive, affectionate, and only a little, a very little, peculiar.
• In a commercial transaction of the retail order much depends on the seller's engaging and amiable aspect.
• She was very amiable during the walk back, and raved much over Edna's appearance in her bathing suit.
• A transient spark of amity shot across the space betwixt us ----She look'd amiable!
• But in the world, he's the most amiable man I know, and a devoted croquet player.
• The conversation began amiably, but just because it was too amiable, it came to a stop again.
• For sole reply Daniel gave him a shy, childlike, meek, and amiable smile.
• "Of whom you imagine me to be one?" said Prince Andrew, with a quiet and particularly amiable smile.
• Pretty amiable?
• This amiable spirit was felt at once, and both aunts 'my deared'
• A formal apology will make him see how foolish he is, and bring him down quite amiable.
• These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me.
• Rely, therefore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and amiable, do not despair.
• During all that period she appeared to me the most amiable and benevolent of human creatures.
• I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.
• Until this I had thought him merely an amiable person who wished to do a favor.
• "There's no telling," said I, keeping as amiable as I could; "nor any telling which objects the most."
• I intend to make my last year here as amiable as possible.
• The "sights" looked amiable, and took vermouth.
• A knock at the door interrupted him, and his face resumed its amiable expression.
• We all, indeed, once thought your temper soft and amiable: but why was it?
• Carol was amiable.
• She thought that it would be amiable to bow to Mrs. Champ Perry.
• The inhabitants of the Humble Home were supposed to be amiable and intelligent.
• Perhaps the most amiable feature of life in Gopher Prairie was the summer cottages.
• Suppose she never again saw him at breakfast, silent but amiable, listening to her chatter.
• Olaf was a Norse chieftain: straight, sunny-haired, large-limbed, resplendently amiable to his subjects.
• They were attracted to each other; a Swedish Othello and Desdemona, more useful and amiable than their prototypes.
• In a short while the three antagonists could be seen together in an amiable bunch.
• In short, it is an amiable rabble.
• With that exception, Paris is amiable.
• They danced a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding.
• Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper with a moustache; an amusing variety.
• It's all very well to be jolly and amiable when you're indifferent to anyone.
• "Just as you please, my dear," said the amiable Mr. Ablewhite.
• I have asked whether Henry the Eighth was an amiable character?
• He was most affectionate in his inquiries regarding that amiable relative.