All 16 Uses of
cordial
in
War and Peace
- But now that Kutuzov had spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of an old friend.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Walk him up and down, my dear fellow," he continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young people show to everyone when they are happy.†
Chpt 2
- And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new guest.†
Chpt 3
- And when after Pierre's departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference due to her misfortune.†
Chpt 5
- The reforming party cordially welcomed and courted him, in the first place because he was reputed to be clever and very well read, and secondly because by liberating his serfs he had obtained the reputation of being a liberal.†
Chpt 6
- When she heard of his arrival she almost ran into the drawing room, flushed and beaming with a more than cordial smile.†
Chpt 6
- She and all the Rostov family welcomed him as an old friend, simply and cordially.†
Chpt 6
- Nicholas, though he had never seen Ilagin, with his usual absence of moderation in judgment, hated him cordially from reports of his arbitrariness and violence, and regarded him as his bitterest foe.†
Chpt 7
- With hospitable dignity and cordiality in her glance and in every motion, she looked at the visitors and, with a pleasant smile, bowed respectfully.†
Chpt 7
- The princess, looking excited and nervous, her face flushed in patches, ran in to meet the visitors, treading heavily, and vainly trying to appear cordial and at ease.†
Chpt 8
- "We won't speak of it any more, my dear," said Pierre, and his gentle, cordial tone suddenly seemed very strange to Natasha.†
Chpt 8
- Natasha's unwontedly brilliant eyes, continually glancing at him with a more than cordial look, had reduced him to this condition.†
Chpt 9
- Well, what is Paris saying?" he asked, suddenly changing his former stern expression for a most cordial tone.†
Chpt 10
- Went away yesterday at vespertime," said Mavra Kuzminichna cordially.†
Chpt 11
- Pierre did not answer, but looked cordially into the Frenchman's eyes whose expression of sympathy was pleasing to him.†
Chpt 11
- Nicholas felt this, it seemed to him that everyone regarded the Italian in the same light, and he treated him cordially though with dignity and restraint.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(cordial as in: a cordial reception) friendly -- usually warm and heartfelt, but possibly only polite