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  • Suddenly he was all affability.†   (source)
  • Joe's affability contrasted with the discomfiture of the men on the bench.†   (source)
  • 'Come on, now, Harry, you'll be late for your next lesson,' said Slughorn affably, snapping the gold clasps shut on his dragonskin briefcase.†   (source)
  • His campus nickname—"The Dolphin"—was a reference both to his affable nature and his legendary ability to dive into a pool and outmaneuver the entire opposing squad in a water polo match.†   (source)
  • Tomard was a solid man; affable, loyal, tireless, capable in a limited way, but he was near fifty, and even in his youth he had never been energetic.†   (source)
  • When he took his place at the dining table, calm, affable, utterly certain, a crisis in the kitchen became no more than a humorous sketch; without him, it was a drama that clutched the heart.†   (source)
  • This was a different, more affable energy, with the pills: a combination of sluggishness and brightness, a bemused, goofy, floating quality.†   (source)
  • In college, I even wore glasses for a bit, fake spectacles with clear lenses that I thought would lend me an affable, unthreatening vibe.†   (source)
  • Bast's normally affable expression sharpened into a glare.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sherman, a tall, distinguished-looking man with a gruff but affable demeanor, confirmed that the fetus was dead.†   (source)
  • I know little about Richard Van Horn, an affable cherub with a bald pate, except that he had been an Episcopal priest who segued into mental health more than two decades ago.†   (source)
  • Jack knew him to be a mercurial man, affable one moment, brittle the next.†   (source)
  • Tom is affable and good-natured right up until the moment the whiskey he's tippling from a flask in the pocket of his father's too-big suit coat makes him drunk.†   (source)
  • She had been close to their father, an affable, disorganized man, an expert in sheep, who had spent his days in the closed-up room at the top of the stairs, reading journals, or out at the research station, standing amid the sheep with their strange and slanting yellow eyes.†   (source)
  • "Oh, hey, Bella," Deputy Steve said affably.†   (source)
  • His American accent was sharp, jarring to the ear, but offset by the way he drawled out his words, by his relaxed, affable manner, as if he'd never had an unpleasant moment in his life and did not expect to.†   (source)
  • Here, it said, wearing a kid grin, was a very personable character, clean-cut, affable, a fellow any man might trust to shave him.†   (source)
  • This is not the John Kennedy whom some consider to be an affable young man who was elected based on good looks and his father's money.†   (source)
  • He was what my dad called an affable drunk.†   (source)
  • She'd been impressed by his looks at first—those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes—but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now She didn't like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything.†   (source)
  • He's Jewish and conventionally handsome with brown hair and green-blue eyes-bright, affable, and engaging.†   (source)
  • An affable sort of human shambles in a tropical shirt and slapdash beard—he's in a lively mood today because he has managed to rig a system in the building that produces enough power to run a TV set.†   (source)
  • The department manager was a stylish, affable woman of about fifty, just the type who would work with brides for twenty years.†   (source)
  • He had made his career in the Commons and, with his affable manner, had acquired few if any enemies among his political opponents.†   (source)
  • 'Take it easy, fellas,' the short patriotic Texan counseled affably, with an uncertain grin.†   (source)
  • His Marine photograph shows an intelligent, open adolescent face, clear-eyed and confident—a handsome face in an affable, jug-eared way.†   (source)
  • "Oh, he's an affable enough sort," said Bert.†   (source)
  • He was clearheaded, listened carefully, and appeared affable.†   (source)
  • John Rimbauer is a partner in a large oil company, Omicron Oil, along with a Mr. Douglas Posey, an affable, quiet gentleman whose company I've had the good fortune to keep, along with that of his wife, Phillis.†   (source)
  • At the lake we stop and stretch and mingle affably with the small crowd of tourists holding cameras and children yelling, "Don't go too close!" and see cars and campers with all different license plates, and see the Crater Lake with a feeling of "Well, there it is," just as the pictures show.†   (source)
  • Rearden," said the eldest judge, smiling affably, reproachfully and spreading his arms, "it is regrettable that you should have misunderstood us so completely.†   (source)
  • "Learning the business, I see," John finally said, affably.†   (source)
  • A soldier called the Guitarist, an affable Florentine who, with his classical songs, made the long nights tolerable, had refused to believe the scale theory.†   (source)
  • But, as of old, his smooth face fairly shone with affable ease.†   (source)
  • Then there would be no question of erections, how they reflected on this naked, affable Danish woman opposite him.†   (source)
  • BRADY (With affable sarcasm) Is the counsel, for the defense showing us the latest fashion in the great metropolitan city of Chicago?†   (source)
  • Though I had taken no vows of chastity, women responded to me as though I were an affable rural curate with no thunder in my pants.†   (source)
  • The ticket-taker on the streetcar nodded affably when I paid my fare.†   (source)
  • MORE He was very affable at dinner.†   (source)
  • The bartender obviously did not know either one; he rested his eyes by closing them.... The fat customer, with a rather affable look about him, said he would have a rye.†   (source)
  • With typical affability, Hans replied, "Nothing, my good man, nothing at all.†   (source)
  • "Well, keep it up if you want," he said affably, wiping his mouth with his napkin.†   (source)
  • Gone was the affable smile, the playful look in his eyes.†   (source)
  • "Sure it is," she answered, almost affably.†   (source)
  • Crawford and Mr. Banerjee, affable gabbers both.†   (source)
  • "You're lucky, you're my last of the day-I can stay late," she says, clipped but affable.†   (source)
  • And all this is said with much affability and ease and freedom of old acquaintance.†   (source)
  • The affable young man with whom he was sharing the front seat said his name was Dick.†   (source)
  • He could neither talk, read, nor write, yet he was as likable and affable as anyone in the class.†   (source)
  • RICH (Respectful affability) Indeed yes, we're old friends.†   (source)
  • Yeh, but you're nuts," said Max affably.†   (source)
  • Jimmy's wordserf job was surely one that Crake would despise, though affably, and Crake's pursuits might not be something Jimmy could understand any more.†   (source)
  • But those first nine expeditions embarked for Tibet from Darjeeling, where many Sherpas had emigrated, and where they had developed a reputation among the resident colonialists for being hardworking, affable, and intelligent.†   (source)
  • Dr. Abaddon said affably as he emptied his pockets of a cell phone, some keys, and a cigarette lighter.†   (source)
  • "Some do that," she says, her tone almost affable now, though distanced; it's as if we're considering a choice of nail polish.†   (source)
  • Later I came to notice that she was always affability itself when Mr. Kinnear was not present, but jumpy as a cat when he was, and when I was in the same room with him; but I was not aware of it then.†   (source)
  • I had to maintain an affable if somewhat naive persona, a woman who loved her husband and could see some of his flaws (otherwise she'd be too much of a sap) but was sincerely devoted to him—all the while leading the reader (in this case, the cops, I am so eager for them to find it) toward the conclusion that Nick was indeed planning to kill me.†   (source)
  • An affable Victorian gentleman, Franklin was said to be a good-natured bumbler, dogged and clueless, with the naive ideals of a child and a disdain for acquiring backcountry skills.†   (source)
  • I haven't given any consideration to what I might do if he resists, but I know the terms of the relationship are changing here and now I am no longer a benign presence, the affable new guy in his life who brings casual conversation and occasional gifts, asking nothing in return.†   (source)
  • Although this did not appear to be the case: he was affable enough to me at first, at least in daylight.†   (source)
  • The affable exterior had gone.†   (source)
  • Let's have it," he said, with an affable tick of the gun, and with a rush of horror I realized he was pointing the gun at Boris, gesturing with the gun at the felt-wrapped package in Boris's hands.†   (source)
  • I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...OMAR FAISAL WAS CHUBBY, dark, had dimpled cheeks, black button eyes, and an affable, gap-toothed smile.†   (source)
  • The group mind was such (private jokes and bemusement, everyone clustered round vacation videos on the iPhone) that it was hard to imagine any of them going to a movie by themselves or eating alone at a bar; sometimes, the affable sense of committee among the men particularly gave me the slight feeling of being interviewed for a job.†   (source)
  • "Fantastic," I kept saying, in my affable new talking-to-Kitsey voice, "it all looks great," although given her family and its history with water, it did seem odd that she wasn't interested in Vienna or Paris or Prague or any destination, actually, that wasn't a literal island in the middle of the freaking ocean.†   (source)
  • Her parents—whom I loved hearing stories about, and who had unfairly died before I'd had the chance to know them—had been affable horse trainers who travelled around the west and raised Morgan horses for a living: cocktail-drinking, canasta-playing livelies who went to the Kentucky Derby every year and kept cigarettes in silver boxes around the house.†   (source)
  • "Well, God knows, I have a hard time remembering things too," said Hobie affably, and rising with the dishes, steered the conversation into other channels.†   (source)
  • Gates, a former British officer, was an affable, plain-faced man who, like Washington, had served during the French and Indian War on the disastrous Braddock expedition.†   (source)
  • Yossarian flipped his eyes open in alarm and saw the totally unexpected bulging black puffs of flak crashing down in toward them from high up and Aarfy's complacent melon-round tiny-eyed face gazing out at the approaching cannon bursts with affable bemusement.†   (source)
  • "I'm just saying that there are a number of uses for an English night far superior to investigating a murder," said the inspector in charge of the murder scene, a stout, affable fellow called Clowes.†   (source)
  • THE BRITISH COMMANDER, an easygoing, affable man who had never been averse to taking his pleasures when he could, was openly enjoying himself through the winter with his own elegant dinners, extended evenings at the faro table, and conspicuously in the company of a stunning young woman about whom there was much talk.†   (source)
  • Some of the cadre were basically harmless; some were even gentle, affable guys when you met them alone on campus.†   (source)
  • The cloth was laced with something like ether, though weakly, so that I wouldn't fully lose consciousness, and they walked me out of the building affably telling people and security that it was my birthday and I was drunk.†   (source)
  • The only one who ever came close enough to look was the affable Texan, who came close enough several times a day to chat with him about more votes for the decent folk, opening each conversation with the same unvarying greeting: 'What do you say, fella?†   (source)
  • Heath, a much younger man, was a fifth-generation Roxbury farmer, age thirty-eight, who would affably describe himself in a memoir as "of middling stature, light complexion, very corpulent, and bald-headed."†   (source)
  • Later on, after the boys had grown up into men, some of the ones who settled in town would come into the store, to buy a bed tray, or a walker, or perhaps an ice bag for a feverish child, and they would speak to me as if they had never done the things I knew they had done, they would just make affable small talk and docilely ask my advice as they might from any doctor, their eyes wavering and expectant.†   (source)
  • He is polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity, modest, wise, and good.†   (source)
  • The lad looks like he's had about enough for today," I said in what I hoped was an affable, rather benign voice.†   (source)
  • He'd had Ted Sizer, Brown's famous education professor, back when he was getting his master's in education at Harvard in the late '60s; his mix of teaching and administrating might intrigue them; and he "presented" well, with his easy, affable manner, accessible good looks (much like the fatherly, grayhaired actor William Windom), and the slightly rumpled demeanor of a professor, all tweed and oxford cotton and rep ties.†   (source)
  • Once Yossarian had driven him back from the nose, Aarfy was free to cower on the floor where Yossarian longed to cower, but he stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backs of the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing trivia in the sky to the two men, who were too busy to be interested.†   (source)
  • People have a tendency to believe everything I say when I'm breaking their arm," Pig said affably and without belligerence, only stating facts according to his vision of the world.†   (source)
  • Jefferson's aide, William Short, came on errands from Paris, and the duplicitous Dr. Edward Bancroft showed up, affable as always.†   (source)
  • 'You know, Yossarian,' he mused affably in a manner of casual reflection that seemed both derisive and sincere, 'I really do admire you a bit.†   (source)
  • All things considered, the royal family was surprisingly affable, but certainly the life they led was not to be envied.†   (source)
  • A plump, rather pleasant-looking lawyer who had been educated at Yale, he was thought trustworthy and affable.†   (source)
  • 'What your mother means, son,' interjected his father affably one time with that flair for graceful and economical expression Nately admired so much, 'is that old money is better than new money and that the newly rich are never to be esteemed as highly as the newly poor.†   (source)
  • An affable and unusually accomplished man of many interests—writer, inventor, member of the Royal Society, avid experimenter with inks and dyes—he was the ideal companion for Franklin.†   (source)
  • It was as if all Adams's troubles, all the pent-up anger and frustration he had had in his dealings with the cabinet, let go in a furious outburst at James McHenry, an incompetent but affable man whom Adams rather liked.†   (source)
  • Greeting Adams affably, Herschel was delighted to talk of his work, and Adams returned to Grosvenor Square elated.†   (source)
  • She has stateliness in her manners which some misconstrue into pride and a haughtiness, but which rather results from too great reserve; she wants more affability, but she has prudence and discretion beyond her years.†   (source)
  • When I had carefully explained the cabalistic ritual of my teaching secrets, he affably informed me that those methods were all wrong.†   (source)
  • The policeman nodded affably to me and I knew then that I had successfully passed back into white society, that I was once more a first-class citizen, that all doors into cafes, rest rooms, libraries, movies, concerts, schools and churches were suddenly open to me.†   (source)
  • Since I had never entered any community where strangers were greeted as affably as old friends, this information did not disturb me to any perceptible degree.†   (source)
  • RICH Oh, everyone's affable here ....(MORE is pleased) Also of course, the friendship of Sir Thomas More.†   (source)
  • The young man stared back without much curiosity, looking at the affable face much the way you stare out at a little station where your train is passing through.†   (source)
  • You know how a fish is, I expect," the postmaster was saying affably to them both, just as if they were in any way together.†   (source)
  • A few of these took affable possession of the establishment.†   (source)
  • He was crisp, fresh, cheerful, affable, bland; but so surprisingly innocent.†   (source)
  • In his affable unconsciousness, however, he took no heed.†   (source)
  • 'As to me,' he resumed, 'certainly Mr Dorrit is as affable with me, I am sure, as I can possibly expect.†   (source)
  • 'Even that affable and condescending ornament of society,' pursued Mr Meagles, 'may misrepresent us, we are afraid.†   (source)
  • Greatly relieved by Mr Merdle's affable offer of assistance, he caught at it directly, and heaped acknowledgments upon him.†   (source)
  • 'Papa Meagles,' returned the Dowager, with an affable smile, but with the bloom on her cheeks standing out a little more vividly than usual as the neighbouring surface became paler,'probably not.'†   (source)
  • Fanny laughed again, in a manner at once condescending, arch, and affable; and said, putting her arm round her sister in a playfully affectionate way: 'Now tell me, my little pet.†   (source)
  • He noticed that his companion stood at the window with the air of an affable and accessible Sovereign, and that, when any of his people in the yard below looked up, his recognition of their salutes just stopped short of a blessing.†   (source)
  • Blandois calling to pay his respects, Mr Dorrit received him with affability as the friend of Mr Gowan, and mentioned to him his idea of commissioning Mr Gowan to transmit him to posterity.†   (source)
    affability = the quality or degree of being good natured and sociable
  • He had always an affability to bestow on Clennam and an ease to treat him with, which might of itself (in the supposititious case of his not having taken that sagacious course) have been a very uncomfortable element in his state of mind.†   (source)
  • being rather hurried (for they had it in hand just then to send a mail or two which was in danger of going straight to its destination, beating about the seas like the Flying Dutchman, and to arrange with complexity for the stoppage of a good deal of important business otherwise in peril of being done), went their several ways; with all affability conveying to Mr and Mrs Meagles that general assurance that what they had been doing there, they had been doing at a sacrifice for Mr and Mrs Meagles's good, which they always conveyed to Mr John Bull in their official condescension to that most unfortunate creature.†   (source)
  • As he walked up and down, affably accommodating his step to the shuffle of his brother, not proud in his superiority, but considerate of that poor creature, bearing with him, and breathing toleration of his infirmities in every little puff of smoke that issued from his lips and aspired to get over the spiked wall, he was a sight to wonder at.†   (source)
    affably = in a good natured and sociable manner
  • Leaning over the front seat she commented affably, "You're the girl who knows Jane Rady, aren't you?†   (source)
  • He smiled and said softly, affably, "Yes suh, Cap'n Shepperton.†   (source)
  • He ejected a quid of tobacco, nodded affably to Merlyn and pointed his trident at the Wart.†   (source)
  • Philip Lombard said affably: "Sleeping the clock round?†   (source)
  • Mr. Hardman, who was smoking a cigar, welcomed them affably.†   (source)
  • Then he would turn smooth as silk, affable, urbane, and try to win her so.†   (source)
  • One day when the grocer had shown less affability, he came home in a tearing rage.†   (source)
  • Never at any time did there seem to be any confusion between them as to whom Shreve meant by 'he') "—listening courteous and quiet behind that expression which you were not supposed to see past, asking at last, interrupting maybe, courteous and affable—nothing of irony, nothing of sarcasm— 'What did you say this college was?'†   (source)
  • He calls me back again and affably gives me to understand that for once he is pleased to put mercy before justice.†   (source)
  • Whenever I met a person whom I suspected of being a Communist, I talked to him affably but from an emotional distance.†   (source)
  • He was quite affable now.†   (source)
  • There was never any knowing when he would remark affably, over a punch cup: "Ralph, if I'd had any sense I'd have made my money selling gold-mine stocks to widows and orphans, like you, instead of blockading.†   (source)
  • His expression is fixed in a salesman's winning smile of self-confident affability and hearty good fellowship.†   (source)
  • There he was able to see the celebrities in their furs or stetsons and alpacunas, going free in the midst of their toted luggage, always more proud or more melancholy or more affable or more lined than they were represented.†   (source)
  • My wife was adept in achieving such small advantages, first impressing the impressionable with her chic and my celebrity and, superiority once firmly established, changing quickly to a pose of almost flirtatious affability.†   (source)
  • The usually upturned, affable lines of his face either curved the other way now, downward, or where not curved were sharp, wedge-shaped at the eyes and mouth.†   (source)
  • There were the business-like, with their little bags; there were the drifters rattling sticks upon area railings; there were affable characters to whom the streets serve for clubroom, hailing men in carts and giving information without being asked for it.†   (source)
  • To the grocer he was all affability; no one could take more pains than he to show his interest in the tobacconist's gossip.†   (source)
  • He examined the charge sheets, spoke affably to the men who had made the arrest; with the slightest perceptible nuance he opened the way for bribery and quickly covered it when he saw that things had now lasted too long and the knowledge had been too widely shared; he undertook to deliver us at the magistrate's court at ten next morning, and then led us away.†   (source)
  • In fact, as it soon turned out, he was not only affable, but very appreciative and very polite and commended in very warm tones the wine and the cake that was served with it, the neatness of the house as compared to his landlady's and finally congratulated David's father on having so excellent a wife.†   (source)
  • By now the tenants were his enemies, led by the red-headed Polish barber Betzhevski, who had given mandolin concerts on the sidewalk in affable days, and now glared with raw winter eyes when he passed in front of Einhorn's plate glass.†   (source)
  • "Good night to you," said Sir Ector affably, when the old lady recovered herself enough to drop him a curtsey.†   (source)
  • Conversation during the meal would have languished more than once but for the tact and affability of the Chinese; now, in his absence, a rather unhappy silence supervened.†   (source)
  • Opposite the doorway of the wagon, he smiled affably, widely, yellow butts of his teeth circled on top like bitten grains of corn.†   (source)
  • The American grinned affably.†   (source)
  • His speech was very slow and level, his whole attitude tolerant and attentive, and because of this and because of the permanent wreathing of his features, he gave one the impression of great affability and good nature.†   (source)
  • When I overtook them and stopped to say a word, I found them affable and confiding.†   (source)
  • She seldom abbreviated the girl's name, and when she did so it was always a sign of affability.†   (source)
  • He was very friendly, affable, busy, kind.†   (source)
  • It's outa sight," he said, parenthetically, with an affable grin.†   (source)
  • [He nods affably to Malone and goes out through the little gate in the paling]†   (source)
  • He was always smiling, affable, and polite.†   (source)
  • There was in Tredgold's affable eye a sardonic flicker.†   (source)
  • Whereupon Belknap arose, and in a courtly and affable manner, stated: "The defendant is ready."†   (source)
  • He was the more affable on the surface as secretly he became more apprehensive, felt more hollow.†   (source)
  • "You want to get some New York experience," concluded the affable Mrs. Bermudez.†   (source)
  • "You're very kind," said Carrie, touched by the agent's extreme affability.†   (source)
  • Very affably: "Gosh, we must try to keep down expenses this year."†   (source)
  • "So long," said the other, smiling affably and going on.†   (source)
  • "Why, hello, Charles," he called affably; "back again?"†   (source)
  • "Charlie, you are neglecting a part of your duty," he observed to Drouet most affably.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that don't matter," said the other affably.†   (source)
  • "Well, now, Miss Madenda," he said, very affably, as Carrie thought, "you go over there."†   (source)
  • 'Do you, sir!' said Mrs. Sparsit, with great affability.†   (source)
  • I went up to her, and was received with an affable kiss and shake of the hand.†   (source)
  • Having made this promise with much affability, he retired and left Kate alone.†   (source)
  • The affability of Matvy Ilyitch's demeanour could only be equalled by its dignity.†   (source)
  • He stood before her; he had lost his affable smile and wore a look of almost military resolution.†   (source)
  • M. de Bellegarde was affable, but in spite of his dignity he was restless.†   (source)
  • Pyotr Petrovitch went on, glancing affably at Zossimov.†   (source)
  • Those venerable personages in the coop, too, seem very affably disposed.†   (source)
  • The doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "What's to be done?†   (source)
  • This occasion shall not entirely pass without that affability on your part.†   (source)
  • That clearing from his eyes, he becomes courteous and of an affable heart.†   (source)
  • Pyotr Petrovitch began with great dignity, though affably.†   (source)
  • Yes, ma'am, that he was indeed; and his son will be just like him—just as affable to the poor.†   (source)
  • The governor was a brisk little man, very simple and affable.†   (source)
  • 'Do I follow you?' said Mrs. Micawber, with her most affable air of business.†   (source)
  • The three young men bowed to each other courteously, if not affably.†   (source)
  • But he was ready for any affable conversation as soon as his host should begin it.†   (source)
  • There is not much affability in her tone.†   (source)
  • He had an affable and haughty air, and a mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut.†   (source)
  • She is all affability, goodness, sweetness, and beauty.'†   (source)
  • He was a white-bearded and affable elder, used to entertaining strangers.†   (source)
  • "And our Minister seems a most delightful and affable person," our new friend said.†   (source)
  • Alexander was saying something affable to him.†   (source)
  • 'And whom didst thou worship within?' said Kim affably, squatting in the shade beside the lama.†   (source)
  • I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability, that it would happen.†   (source)
  • But the Grand Duke was a pleasant, affable sort of royalty, like the late King Edward VII, and it was pleasant to hear him talk about the races and, very occasionally, as a bonne bouche, about his nephew, the Emperor; or to have him pause for a moment in his walk to ask after the progress of our cures or to be benignantly interested in the amount of money we had put on Leloeffel's hunter for the Frankfurt Welter Stakes.†   (source)
  • Mr. van der Luyden greeted Mrs. Archer with cousinly affability, proffered to Newland low-voiced congratulations couched in the same language as his wife's, and seated himself in one of the brocade armchairs with the simplicity of a reigning sovereign.†   (source)
  • They looked affable.†   (source)
  • An affable advance—a vague murmur that they must see more of each other—an allusive glance to a near future that was felt to include the Duchess as well as the Sabrina—how easily it was all done, if one possessed the knack of doing it!†   (source)
  • ain't it hot, hey?" he said affably to a man who was polishing his streaming face with his coat sleeves.†   (source)
  • She was affable to-night.†   (source)
  • knowing very well that they have no real need of him, that he will cease to be invited to the house sooner than they will be dismissed from it; who, on the other hand, cling with most fidelity to those masters and mistresses who have tested and proved their real capacity, and do not look for that superficial responsiveness, that slavish affability, which may impress a stranger favourably, but often conceals an utter barrenness of spirit in which no amount of training can produce the least trace of individuality.†   (source)
  • Such affability is seldom seen.†   (source)
  • A couple of minutes later the door opened again and the affable voice of Gania cried: "Come in please, prince!"†   (source)
  • She was affable, vain, subject to flattery, and this combination, he knew quite well, might produce a tragedy in a woman of her home position.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp was quick to abandon his uneasy, half-defiant attitude; he stopped drumming on his comforter and turned back to his guest with confused affability.†   (source)
  • 'Tis well known, a big nose is indicative Of a soul affable, and kind, and courteous, Liberal, brave, just like myself, and such As you can never dare to dream yourself, Rascal contemptible!†   (source)
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