pleasant reception

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But the King demurred: perhaps he recalled his pleasant reception in Washington last year, the warm words of Winston Churchill at Quebec.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not a pleasant reception but, as a matter of fact, the man ordinarily affable was nervous and consequently irritable.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

It was a pleasant reception room, not very bookish in aspect, but in my agitation I was too eager to feel surprised by the large billiard table in the offing.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher

Thus, among ourselves, we had a pleasant reception and a discussion of many phases of the question that brought us together.

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

On this occasion I well remember my pleasant reception by Charles W. Eliot, tutor in mathematics, and E. N. Horsford, professor of chemistry, and, I believe, dean of the school.

From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon