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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.
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