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  • They lived in such close proximity and moved in so many of the same circles that they felt obliged to remain on cordial terms.†   (source)
  • Aibileen is no more than cordial with me, nervous, stands at the kitchen sink and never stops working.†   (source)
  • The soldiers, really not much older than I, were cordial, even friendly.†   (source)
  • Whatever their relationship was, it wasn't cordial.†   (source)
  • We'll try to keep it cordial, although of course we started off on the wrong foot."†   (source)
  • We mustn't be afraid to change!" he added cordially, but his wife ignored him.†   (source)
  • In the weeks to come, Madame Manec is perfectly cordial; she walks with Marie-Laure to the beach most mornings, takes her to the market.†   (source)
  • We went outside into the cordial afternoon sunshine.†   (source)
  • The visitors—all three were ginger-haired and freckled—were shown their rooms, their cases were carried up by Hardman's son Danny, there was cordial in the kitchen, a tour of the house, a swim in the pool and lunch in the south garden, under the shade of the vines.†   (source)
  • Her aunt welcomed him cordially, and in a few moments put her head in at the parlor door, her understanding glance taking in the two silent young people.†   (source)
  • Jon Arryn and he had been cordial, but never friendly.†   (source)
  • Then the moment passed, and Her Highness looked like a normal elegant woman again, with a cordial smile and a soothing voice.†   (source)
  • "We see Theodore Decker?" the younger, Italian-looking guy said to Mr. Borowsky as the older one peered cordially inside the classroom.†   (source)
  • I was allowed to spend two weeks with him there on the wind-swept plain, mostly waiting in the strange vacancy of a cold apartment, trying to compose cordial things to say to the other wives.†   (source)
  • "If you've worked to preserve the past," the leader said, trying to be more cordial, "surely you can work to create the future.†   (source)
  • Burnham was decisive, blunt, and cordial; he spoke under a level blue gaze that Olmsted found reassuring.†   (source)
  • Walt Disney sent Kroc a cordial reply and forwarded his proposal to an executive in charge of the theme park's concessions.†   (source)
  • He and Kim remained cordial but distant, no matter how much I tried to sell them on each other.†   (source)
  • There is, of course, no reason at all to suppose our meeting will be anything but cordial.†   (source)
  • After a couple of paces he turned again and came back to embrace me, but I was not strong enough to return his cordiality.†   (source)
  • She shows him into the library, where a fire has been lit and two glasses of some unknown cordial set ready.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino, in fact, shook his hand with warm cordiality, and on occasion even permitted himself a pat on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • "So sorry to have wasted your time," he said with mock cordiality.†   (source)
  • He learned to be cordial to everyone—a sophisticated and ultimately false front.†   (source)
  • The Chairman was very cordial when I poured him sake, and thanked me by raising his cup in the air before drinking it; but all evening long he never looked at me.†   (source)
  • They wanted to keep up with the news, and Father always spent some time with them—it was good business, Father said, to be cordial with people.†   (source)
  • As the days passed, Ameh Bozorg grew less cordial.†   (source)
  • I've read his book, and I must say"—he smiled his cordial smile, everything about him was held within decent bounds—"it's a very remarkable achievement."†   (source)
  • She firmly shook my hand and cordially introduced herself.†   (source)
  • "Certainly glad you finally made it, old man," said the Humbug, cordially pumping Milo's hand.†   (source)
  • He shakes hands with both men, his face jovial, cordial.†   (source)
  • Eragon asked, eager to return to more cordial footing with Arya but also genuinely curious.†   (source)
  • Most cordially, Walter F. Tempest President, EZ Products I scooped out Styrofoam peanuts, piling them neatly next to the box, until I found the package inside.†   (source)
  • Good evenin' yourself," returned Himes with unusual cordiality.†   (source)
  • But my old friends Quil and Embry became part of the fabric as they joined Jacob's pack, and even Sam and Emily were cordial.†   (source)
  • He wanted to get on, but he was cordial and rode with the Crow because he felt that if he were discourteous some of the young bucks might try to make sport with him farther south, when he was out of range of the old chief's protection.†   (source)
  • I say, trying to be cordial.†   (source)
  • Shawn agreed but was still wary and cordial at best when he was one on one with his brother.†   (source)
  • When she sensed him getting ready to turn again—a turn that Gabby knew would signal the end of cordial relations between them—she took a step forward, almost against her will.†   (source)
  • Milkman hadn't seen him this relaxed and cordial in a long long time.†   (source)
  • For the next few hours, Heather and I pretend cordiality, amidst watching Mom cook; Jake show off his soccer trophies; and watching Leigh play with Hunter, who is happy to have company.†   (source)
  • It is miruvor, the cordial of Imladris.†   (source)
  • I see the senor's having a hard time deciding," Mustafa remarked cordially.†   (source)
  • Milo's office was a barbershop, and his deputy mayor was a pudgy barber from whose obsequious lips cordial greetings foamed as effusively as the lather he began whipping up in Milo's shaving cup.†   (source)
  • Jack is usually cordial, due, Cedric figures, to his passing friendship with James.†   (source)
  • A quack doctor pitched patent medicines from the back of a wagon: "A rare cordial to fortify the innards against infective parasites, unwholesome damps, and malignant effluvia!"†   (source)
  • My aunts had been very cordial to Ultima.†   (source)
  • He gave Tomas his hand and pumped it cordially.†   (source)
  • They managed to exchange cordial good-byes and separate peacefully, though all four knew they were in for a brawl.†   (source)
  • His demeanor suggested anything but cordiality.†   (source)
  • Receiving Adams with all customary cordiality, Franklin insisted that he move in with him to quarters previously occupied by Silas Deane.†   (source)
  • In the morning, Anys Gowdie brought a cordial that she said was decocted from the tops of feverfew with a little wormwood in sugared sack.†   (source)
  • In spite of the hour and the intrusion on his privacy, Oliveri was cordial, claiming to be a night owl who never went to bed before one o'clock.†   (source)
  • Despite Bram's attempts to be cordial, Max could tell that Ms.†   (source)
  • The two men smile cordially, but there is steel in their eyes.†   (source)
  • His voice was clear, impersonally cordial.†   (source)
  • "If I had but my cordial with me," Queen Lucy was saying, "I could soon mend this.†   (source)
  • It was the beginning of many such afternoons, all of them stimulating, cordial, and memorable.†   (source)
  • She managed to be cordial and distant at once.†   (source)
  • I know certain families have enjoyed relationships because of their children, had carpools and holiday barbecues, and perhaps a shared weekend at a country house upstate or on the Long Island shore, but on the whole an unwritten covenant of conduct governs us, a signet of cordiality and decorum, in whose ethic, if it can be called such a thing, the worst wrong is to be drawn forth and disturbed.†   (source)
  • For all she knew, this big young man smiling at her with such cordiality might be a sheriff—or"Do you know who that is?" she asked.†   (source)
  • He wore a decent-looking dark suit and a red tie, and he spoke cordially to everyone, moving from person to person but returning betweentimes to stand at Carla's side with one hand resting on the small of her back in a proprietary way.†   (source)
  • Then the music would go silent, the halogen lamps would dim, and with little more than a cordial nod to the others he would be gone.†   (source)
  • At the shoe stand, Sterling did not give his usual cordial greeting.†   (source)
  • Could it be that Sophie had urged Nathan toward this cordial move, perhaps to get him to make up for his nastiness of the night before?†   (source)
  • The play of light on frosted bottles of red rowanberry cordial caught the eye.†   (source)
  • He greeted them cordially, and made them sit down.†   (source)
  • Now that we were actually leaving, her manner became more cordial, the stiff unfriendliness she has displayed had gone with the fear that we might have come to stay.†   (source)
  • "She drove Mr. Don out of the house," said Cora, to whom the cordial was now passed.†   (source)
  • She waited for them, smiling shyly to answer their cordial faces.†   (source)
  • She greeted us cordially.
  • We had a cordial exchange of ideas.
  • Mrs. Braddocks insisted cordially.   (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
  • They've been awfully cordial to me.   (source)
    cordial = friendly
  • "Aunty," she said, cordially, "why don't you go pee in your hat?"†   (source)
  • "You bet," said my father, through the closed door, in an unnaturally cordial tone.†   (source)
  • Bigari was cordial, good-natured, passionate about his work, proud of the new devices.†   (source)
  • But he stood up and shook my hand with genuine cordiality when we came in.†   (source)
  • I did not want any of that kind of trouble, and to keep a cordial distance would be best.†   (source)
  • He was cordial and tireless in his efforts to please her and, indeed, to please Anna as well.†   (source)
  • However, German soldiers could change in an instant from cordial to brutal.†   (source)
  • His voice was very faint, very scratchy, very cordial, with a ghastly pulmonary whistle.†   (source)
  • Then his temper switched tracks and he smiled cordially again.†   (source)
  • "Matter of some furniture," he said cordially.†   (source)
  • "Right you are," said the Indonesian, just as cordially.†   (source)
  • And thank you so much for your cordial, professional handling of this situation.†   (source)
  • "Dwarf," said the Red Viper, in a tone grown markedly less cordial, "spare me your Lannister lies.†   (source)
  • Arys Oakheart was courteous, and would talk to her cordially.†   (source)
  • Not like they're dating, but at least they're cordial.†   (source)
  • Although she seemed expansive and cordial, she had a solitary character and an impenetrable heart.†   (source)
  • Then she carefully dripped on to it one single drop of the cordial from her flask.†   (source)
  • In the month since their return from winter break, relations have been cordial, if not exactly warm.†   (source)
  • Nasuada struggled to remain cordial as she asked, "What purpose does it serve, though?"†   (source)
  • Every expression of tenderness is a cordial to my heart.†   (source)
  • He was altogether gracious and cordial, and for the most part we simply made pleasantries.†   (source)
  • He closed the door behind me and offered me a seat, gracing me with a cordial grin.†   (source)
  • General Peckem was blossoming spryly with cordiality again.†   (source)
  • He was extremely cordial and reciprocated these sentiments.†   (source)
  • The two of them have talked on the phone a few times, and it's been cordial.†   (source)
  • Adams and Pickering were said to "hate each other with the utmost cordiality."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown greeted me cordially and welcomed me "overseas."†   (source)
  • If I had my old cordial with me I could cure him.†   (source)
  • They took photos and treated me with great cordiality.†   (source)
  • In a voice of humble cordiality, P. D. gave him some response.†   (source)
  • There is a cordial defiance to her now, a slyly teasing way she has of commenting on things I do that I suspect she finds slightly foolish.†   (source)
  • In time this would lift — in later years they reestab-lished, if not a close relationship, then certainly a cordial one.†   (source)
  • In the case of the faculty, they exercised a "cordial" hatred of Lish because his father was so famous that many faculty members were afraid of him—and Lish's mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt.†   (source)
  • Carefully, the Count removed the little cordial glass from his back pocket and placed it on the counter.†   (source)
  • Now that Jean Louise was grown, they had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.†   (source)
  • The Los Angeles people were not very cordial and looked down on her for some inexplicable reason; she could not get a word in with them edgewise.†   (source)
  • When the applause and the shouted cordial jokes had ended, Dr. Urbino Daza explained in all seriousness that before the storm broke, the Sisters of St. Clare had asked him to please bring the dessert, but he had left the King's Highway because someone said that his parents' house was on fire.†   (source)
  • And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked.†   (source)
  • He knew all the important geisha in nearly every geisha district in Japan; and although he would probably be very cordial when Mameha introduced me, I shouldn't expect him to say much.†   (source)
  • Arthur did so; he sent a full refund to each customer who canceled, and a personal note written in a cordial style.†   (source)
  • He was witty—even Owen was impressed by Lish's editorial cleverness for The Grave—and he was cordially loathed by students and faculty alike; I say "cordially," in the case of the students, because no one would have refused an invitation to one of his father's or his mother's parties.†   (source)
  • DURING THE 197Os the cordial relationship between Monfort executives and workers at the Greeley slaughterhouse came to an end.†   (source)
  • He was always charming and cordial, but there were times when even these traits failed to put his business associates at ease.†   (source)
  • "You boys look fine, fine," he said in his full and cordial voice, "better I would say than those doughboys—G. I.'s— I saw marching in.†   (source)
  • The men were cordial.†   (source)
  • He'd had a cordial, lonely, persevering face, and Ishmael turned now to stare into it, for there was a portrait of Arthur hung on the wall just to the left of a bookcase.†   (source)
  • They came to the house dressed in overcoats and checkered scarves, reeking of pomade and shaving soap, and sat down to snifters of blackberry cordial, after which Arthur declined to run for office, telling the gentlemen from Amity Harbor that he harbored no illusions, that he preferred to turn sentences and prune his mulberry hedges.†   (source)
  • "All right, pal," Finny spoke in his cordial, penetrating voice, that reverberant instrument in his chest, "don't start awarding prizes until you've passed the course.†   (source)
  • Fifteen hundred members of the Columbian Guard in their new uniforms of light blue sackcloth, white gloves, and yellow-lined black capes met the throng and cordially directed everyone to the Administration Building, recognizable by its lofty gold dome.†   (source)
  • It could be that their cordiality and handshaking had been nothing but stiff formality, that underneath they hated each other.†   (source)
  • "The thing is, Theo," my dad said, his tone clear and cordial, running a businesslike hand over his hair, "I need to get in over at Sutton Place and see what's what.†   (source)
  • After a perfectly cordial opening—sorry for my tragic loss, thinking of me in this time of sorrow —she offered to send me a bus ticket to Woodbriar, MD, while simultaneously alluding to vague medical conditions that made it difficult for her and Grandpa Decker to "meet the demands" for my care.†   (source)
  • Ishmael had stood beside her at church while she greeted her friends and acquaintances with the sort of cordiality and genuine feeling he couldn't muster in himself.†   (source)
  • "Hands, hands," said Boris cordially.†   (source)
  • " 'You are cordially invited to a Turkish ball in honor of Miss Felicity Worthington at the home of Lord and Lady Markham, eight o'clock in the evening,' " I read aloud.†   (source)
  • I'd long ago resolved to be cordial but not overly so, lest I be sucked into some conversation about what celebrity was in rehab or strap versus strapless dresses.†   (source)
  • "Thank you for returning my call," he said, with the same cordial formality he had shown when Amanda and Dawson had met with him.†   (source)
  • Nana was always polite, always cordial when he was around, but the shrugging didn't stop until Beth moved back home ten years ago.†   (source)
  • But the bottle was made of diamond instead of glass, and it was still more than half full of the magical cordial which would heal almost every wound and every illness.†   (source)
  • Frodo's spirits had risen for a while after his escape, and after food and a draught of the cordial; but now a deep uneasiness, growing to dread, crept over him again.†   (source)
  • I knew they wanted me to stand around and be cordial too, so I did, but mostly Jerry Sanford and I threw little stoned at each other, until Father caught us and made us stop.†   (source)
  • I found out that he was cordially disliked by most of his classmates at the law school, hung around mostly with Institute graduates, and still practiced sword manual in front of his bedroom mirror.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo was the only one who felt a cordial compassion for him and he tried to break his perseverance.†   (source)
  • In this short message, I would like to welcome you back to Monterrey and cordially recognize you for your sports victory.†   (source)
  • The fact was that he still had no tail — whether that Lucy had forgotten it or that her cordial, though it could heal wounds, could not make things grow again.†   (source)
  • But to make up for that irremediable power, which was exasperating even for him, he had a cordiality that won the immediate confidence of others and a stupendous capacity for work.†   (source)
  • 'Great,' said Colonel Korn with somewhat less cordiality than Yossarian had expected, and he slid himself off Colonel Cathcart's desk to stand on the floor.†   (source)
  • Moving furniture, unpacking books, and plugging in digital clocks is an ideal follow-up to their delicate, though cordial, first chat.†   (source)
  • He was a no-nonsense fellow and had far less of a bedside manner than the cordial young physician of the night before.†   (source)
  • To Rush he wrote, "I only needed this knowledge to revive towards him all the affections of the most cordial moments of our lives."†   (source)
  • 'Please make yourself comfortable, Chaplain,' invited the colonel cordially, switching on a blinding spotlight and shooting it squarely into the chaplain's face.†   (source)
  • Both mother and father, he assured Louisa Catherine, were waiting to receive her with "most cordial affection."†   (source)
  • When he sat with them he had no need to sit with anyone else; his problem of where to sit was solved, and he was protected against the undesired company of all those fellow officers who invariably welcomed him with excessive cordiality when he approached and waited uncomfortably for him to go away.†   (source)
  • Everything was cordial, and it was nice to have him with her at church-everyone so proud of himbut the privacy zone that once extended to the borders of his small bedroom had grown to envelop a whole mysterious life in Providence.†   (source)
  • Doubtless both were perfectly cordial.†   (source)
  • The general introduced me to them as one of the Grand Council Fire at Philadelphia, upon which they made me many bows and cordial reception.†   (source)
  • He found Franklin cordial but aloof, easygoing to the point of indolence, distressingly slipshod about details and about money.†   (source)
  • Washington had accepted his commission in an entirely cordial letter to Adams, but with the understanding that as head of the new army he could choose his own principal officers.†   (source)
  • Days later, in Paris, where he had only just learned of Adams's election, Jefferson wrote warmly, "No man on earth pays more cordial homage to your worth or wishes more fervently your happiness.†   (source)
  • Less than a mile from Passy, in the village of Auteuil, a cordial, well-to-do Scot named William Alexander established residence in order to be close to his dear old friend Dr. Franklin.†   (source)
  • He greatly regretted that "the indiscretion of a printer" had doubtless offended his "friend Mr. Adams, for whom, as one of the most honest and disinterested men alive, I have cordial esteem," despite "his apostasy to hereditary monarchy."†   (source)
  • IT WAS A BRIEF, cordial note to wish Jefferson many happy new years, and to say he could expect to receive a bit of "homespun lately produced in this quarter by one who was honored in his youth with some of your attention and much of your kindness."†   (source)
  • But any thought that the interview presaged an overall cordial welcome for the new minister was dashed soon enough by the London press, which dismissed the meeting as nothing more than a curious anecdote for future historians.†   (source)
  • According to Adams, writing years later, "Jefferson in those days never failed to agree with me in everything of a political nature, and he very cordially concurred in this."†   (source)
  • Writing to Abigail late the following day, he reported only that at a reception at the President's house, Washington had greeted him "with great cordiality …. affection, and confidence," and that all had gone "very agreeably."†   (source)
  • And then, almost for the first time, Lucy remembered the precious cordial that had been given her for a Christmas present.†   (source)
  • The dragon-that-had-been-Eustace held out its sore leg gladly enough, remembering how Lucy's cordial had cured him of sea-sickness before he became a dragon.†   (source)
  • Then the baskets were opened, the cloth was spread with the aromatic ham and chicken, spices and jellies, fresh breads and a cake, peaches, bananas, figs, pomegranates, grapes, and a thin dark bottle of blackberry cordial.†   (source)
  • Surely today, even though the Governor General had refused to see him the day before—surely today (especially with his exquisite command of German) he would be greeted cordially by the head of the Einsatzgruppe der Sicherheitspolizei, with whom he had an entree in the form of a letter from a mutual friend in Erfurt (a sociologist, a leading Nazi theoretician on the Jewish problem), and who could not fail to be further impressed by these credentials, these honorary degrees (on authentic…†   (source)
  • And they parted cordially enough, although Dick could not bring himself to match Charlie's bluff good-humor.†   (source)
  • Then, ever the cordial, impeccably mannered host, Tim winked at me, discoursed on Mozart, congratulated the kids on their knowledge of music, and passed the peanuts and cheese.†   (source)
  • "In this bottle," he said, "there is cordial made of the juice of one of the fireflowers that grow in the mountains of the sun.†   (source)
  • Then she composed herself and went back into the room to join her treacherous friends, who greeted her as cordially as if they had not just that moment driven knives into her heart and thrown her quite off balance; she could not recognize herself in the picture they had made of her!†   (source)
  • There are other people wounded," said Aslan while she was still looking eagerly into Edmund's pale face and wondering if the cordial would have any result.†   (source)
  • One of the town's citizens who had been cordial to me drove up and stopped beside me at the red light.†   (source)
  • On my way out of the lane that leads from my parents' place to my home, the neighbors at the halfway point waved, but those near the highway—people with whom we have been cordial—gave me the most violently hostile stare.†   (source)
  • An hour later, he's sitting lightly on a red velour cushioned chair across a little round table from Long, getting past cordialities.†   (source)
  • There are no cordialities,'and Cedric can't meet Rivera's gaze as he sidesteps through the doorway and sits.†   (source)
  • Let us meet the Archbishop with cordial thanksgiving : Our lord, our Archbishop returns.†   (source)
  • I did so, and received a cordial, though naturally a somewhat astonished, welcome.†   (source)
  • Thus an armistice was signed and relations, if not cordial, were at least established.†   (source)
  • Aloud, with great cordiality, they all said: "How are you, Les?"†   (source)
  • Nobody had been exactly cordial to him. all eyed each other-as though they knew.†   (source)
  • The chubby red face of Benito Hoover was beaming down at him–beaming with manifest cordiality.†   (source)
  • "Excellent work," said M. Bouc cordially.†   (source)
  • Alvah Scarret unbent to the point of cordiality, but kept a wary distance.†   (source)
  • In my lamentable state I was half-thankful for the cordiality with which he threw himself on me.†   (source)
  • Sister Veve had a narrow discontented face, a metallic vivacity, an effusive cordiality.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to us with his usual friendly cordiality.†   (source)
  • The result was that our relations became more cordial.†   (source)
  • So cordially indeed that Bernard felt a sharp pang of jealousy.†   (source)
  • Conway's smile became more definitely cordial.†   (source)
  • It is, however, an attitude that I most cordially welcome.†   (source)
  • "But of course!" he cried, making up for his first hesitations with an excess of noisy cordiality.†   (source)
  • Yes, but not cordial.†   (source)
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