amiableness

Example Sentences

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I fear, Vi, that you have lost something of your old amiableness since the blow.”

From The Late Tenant by Tracy, Louis

But the imaginative man cannot be content to regard the sea with this ignorant amiableness.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert

He was a man of blameless morals, deep erudition, and sincere piety; and he was greatly beloved for the amiableness of his manners. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert

When he got here, he chatted to R—— over our lunch, with something of the simple amiableness of a child, about the wild flowers, the ways of insects, and notes of birds.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography by Morley, John

There was the most perfect civility and amiableness even in the interchange of not very delicate pleasantries between the people at Coucy.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry