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  • Too crowded, he thought; left alone, he and Robert might have been able to settle the matter amicably.†   (source)
  • Tita's entrance stopped the discussion and forced them to try to begin a conversation in a more amicable tone.†   (source)
  • I said, reaching over and shaking his shoulder amicably as I thought.†   (source)
  • We came to an amicable agreement: the watch was hidden under the cupboard, the chain beneath the fingerboard of Father's violin and the money was jammed into the window frame.†   (source)
  • Dinner's in the fridge," she said in a slightly more amicable tone.†   (source)
  • The chiefs were chatting amicably among themselves when the commandant of the marine corps looked up and spotted Ryan.†   (source)
  • When Vic and Roger decided to go their own way, they had observed strict protocol and had not gone to any of their previous clients until their connections with the Ellison Agency were formally — and amicably — severed.†   (source)
  • Our divorce wasn't exactly amicable, if you know what I mean.†   (source)
  • Until now, he said, he had concurred in the belief that the more forceful the government in dealing with the Americans, the more likely matters could be "amicably adjusted."†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart demanded, and then smiled amicably.†   (source)
  • Because he had been the first one selected, the first name called, the first to be seated, and because he gave every indication of being an amicable type with an easy smile and kind word to all, Mr. Nevin Dark was elected foreman of the jury.†   (source)
  • "Hello, children," he said, waving amicably.†   (source)
  • It would've been called an amicable divorce...no fury, no bitterness.†   (source)
  • They parted amicably, and Smith went, of all places, to the East, signing on as trainer for cosmetic queen Elizabeth Arden Graham.†   (source)
  • The termination of their marriage, apparently, was as amicable as such things can be.†   (source)
  • Berger will have to decide for herself whether she wants to make a formal complaint against you for harassment, threats, and breaking and entering, or whether she wants to settle things amicably.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rearden, this is an amicable discussion.†   (source)
  • of you could come to an amicable agreement, and—".†   (source)
  • He lights a cigar and stares at a page, composing the sequence of words that will most amicably end the war.†   (source)
  • An unpleasant matter, but amicably settled.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS (Consciously shy) Sir Thomas, may I ask if you and the Cardinal parted, how shall I say, amicably?†   (source)
  • Amicability was not Sam's greatest virtue.†   (source)
  • Although we disagree, I think we can reach an amicable compromise.
  • The divorce had become final only a few months earlier, but it had been amicable.†   (source)
  • They'd chat for a minute or so about nothing important and then amicably go their separate ways.†   (source)
  • The reunion of the Adamses and Jefferson in New York was appropriately amicable.†   (source)
  • And this triangle, Angelini, Towers, Hammett, was that amicable, too?†   (source)
  • I am not helping you to pretend that this is any sort of amicable discussion.†   (source)
  • There are ways to avoid it, to get things settled amicably —if one knows the right people.†   (source)
  • There's no reason why things should not be handled amicably.†   (source)
  • A nurse appeared from behind me, a very pleasant woman with an amicable smile.†   (source)
  • And the rest of the evening passed amicably with both of them abusing the Minister of Magic, for Hermione, like Ron, thought that after all the Ministry had put Harry through the previous year, they had a great deal of nerve asking him for help now.†   (source)
  • "I know," said Martin amicably, with a collegial glance at me, as if to say: hey, these Russians—nuts, am I right?†   (source)
  • By the time of the halt at Brunswick, Ewald wrote, the hope of the whole British command was "of ending the war amicably, without shedding the blood of the King's subjects in a needless way."†   (source)
  • She says it's because their divorce is amicable (um, no) and Seany and I need a father figure in our lives, but all they ever do is fight.†   (source)
  • Accounts differ whether the meeting was amicable or acrimonious, but a compromise resulted in any event.†   (source)
  • Still, when the tape ended, she had forced herself to sit down and count up her affairs—short-lived and long, passionate and detached, bitter and amicable—over the years.†   (source)
  • Her other affairs had ended differently, swiftly or slowly, amicably or not, but none with this element of uneasiness.†   (source)
  • It is curious to see forty or fifty ambassadors, ministers or other strangers of the first fashion from all the nations of Europe, assembling in the most amicable manner and conversing in the same language," wrote Jefferson's aide, Colonel Humphreys.†   (source)
  • While we are endeavoring to adjust all our differences with France by amicable negotiation, with the progress of the war in Europe, the depredations on our commerce, the personal injuries to our citizens, and the general complexion of our affairs, render it my duty to recommend your consideration of effectual measures of defense.†   (source)
  • Indeed, to behold this distinguished man ....occupying the chair of the Senate in the morning, and afterwards walking home through the streets and taking his seat among his fellow citizens as their equal, conversing amicably with men over whom he had just presided ....was a singular spectacle, and a striking exemplification of the state of society in America at this period.†   (source)
  • But he was a placid, amicable fellow, who made a good fireman with no hope of ever rising to engineer; his husky muscles were his only asset.†   (source)
  • MORE Amicably.†   (source)
  • He leered, cleared his throat, and tried to arrange his bulldog features into something approaching amicability "I talked with some of the board members about your visit, Conroy."†   (source)
  • MORE Amicably....Yes.†   (source)
  • One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably—I may say like lovers—on a height overhanging the sea.†   (source)
  • And they must be on amicable terms to be coming home together at this hour and in this condition.†   (source)
  • Here they had chatted amicably for some time, when suddenly, without any warning, the deputy had fallen heavily to the ground.†   (source)
  • The Indians, whom he had passed amicably as he rode out into the New Mexican desert on a burro, seeking the ancient fort, now spurred after him with fell intent and wild scalping whoops.†   (source)
  • My original idea had been to leave him flat, but Anthony was very helpful about that, and said it was far better to arrange things amicably; and he did arrange things very amicably.†   (source)
  • And amicably, not as two white women and a negress, not as three negroes or three whites, not even as three women, but merely as three creatures who still possessed the need to eat but took no pleasure in it, the need to sleep but from no joy in weariness or regeneration, and in whom sex was some forgotten atrophy like the rudimentary gills we call the tonsils or the still-opposable thumbs for old climbing.†   (source)
  • They lived amicably enough in the two-storey house in town, though for some time now the son had refused, quiet and firm, to eat any food prepared by the slave woman who had raised him from babyhood.†   (source)
  • She nodded amicably to Poirot.†   (source)
  • In his youth he had felt an amicable contempt for the works of Guy Francon or Ralston Holcombe, and emulating them had seemed no more than innocent quackery.†   (source)
  • Why, Ashley Wilkes and his father told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to—to—an—amicable agreement with Mr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • had an aunt once (you do not remember her because I never saw her myself but only heard the tale) who was faced with a serious operation which she became convinced she would not survive, at a time when her nearest female kin was a woman between whom and herself there had existed for years one of those bitter inexplicable (to the man mind) amicable enmities which occur between women of the same blood, whose sole worry about departing this world was to get rid of a certain brown dress which she owned and knew that the kinswoman knew she had never liked, which must be burned, not given away but burned in the back yard beneath the window where, by being held up to the window (and sufferin†   (source)
  • Now she saw how foolish had been her hope of amicably settling so important a matter, especially with a selfish swine like Rhett.†   (source)
  • I knew we should come to an amicable agreement.†   (source)
  • [Malone and Ramsden go out very amicably through the little gate†   (source)
  • Jim told me he had been received at first with an abject display of the most amicable sentiments.†   (source)
  • "It wasn't meant to be disagreeable," he returned amicably.†   (source)
  • I meant to intervene amicably later on and help to improve poor Mr. Burdovsky's position.†   (source)
  • Between people like us threats are out of place, everything should be amicably arranged.†   (source)
  • Let us arrange this matter in an amicable way.†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Glegg talked quite amicably about the Tullivers that evening.†   (source)
  • An impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon.†   (source)
  • She answered him with a smile, and they went on together in the most amicable manner.†   (source)
  • Thenardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet amicable.†   (source)
  • Seeing them approaching, he rose from his chair, and nodding amicably to the general, signed to him not to interrupt the recitation.†   (source)
  • They all knew each other, and felt like one large family, among whom existed the most amicable relations.†   (source)
  • The headmaster glared amicably at the two children, filling them with fear by the roar of his voice, and then with a guffaw left them.†   (source)
  • I had been so long wandering with lawless people, and making my bed upon the hills and under the bare sky, that to sit once more in a clean, covered house, and to talk amicably with a gentleman in broadcloth, seemed mighty elevations.†   (source)
  • Thus it came about that towards morning Brown, reflecting upon the desperate nature of his position, heard from the marshy overgrown hollow an amicable, quavering, strained voice crying—in English—for permission to come up, under a promise of personal safety and on a very important errand.†   (source)
  • Philip could not help seeing that Hayward looked a perfect fool, and Hayward had not the sense to hold his tongue; in his irritation, his self-assurance undaunted, he attempted to argue: he made wild statements and Weeks amicably corrected them; he reasoned falsely and Weeks proved that he was absurd: Weeks confessed that he had taught Greek Literature at Harvard.†   (source)
  • But at least they had parted amicably, and he was out of the house without meeting Selden—Selden, whose continued absence now smote her with a new alarm.†   (source)
  • Colia was indelicate enough to voice the delight he felt at his success in managing to annoy Lizabetha Prokofievna, with whom, in spite of their really amicable relations, he was constantly sparring.†   (source)
  • Judy received her amicably.†   (source)
  • Since she could not marry him, it would be kinder to him, as well as easier for herself, to write a line amicably evading his request to see her: he was not the man to mistake such a hint, and when next they met it would be on their usual friendly footing.†   (source)
  • The reaction caused her a sharp pang, but after a passing movement of irritation at the clumsiness of fate, and at her own carelessness in not denying the door to all but Selden, she controlled herself and greeted Rosedale amicably.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Crawley and the landlord had a consultation about the new hangings, an amicable wrangle about the carpets, and a final adjustment of everything except the bill.†   (source)
  • The whole thing can be arranged amicably; there is no reason why anyone should know anything about it.†   (source)
  • kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable — when he said he supposed the old lady was all right now that she had got her adopted daughter back again, and added that he saw Adele was "prete e croquer sa petite maman Anglaise" — I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from th†   (source)
  • One of the sections, says our friend, a man whom he knows very well indeed, sat almost silent at the beginning of the discussion, but at last got drawn into it, and finished by roaring out very loud, and damning all the rest for fools; after which befel a period of noise, and then a lull, during which the aforesaid section, having said good-night very amicably, took his way home by himself to a western suburb, using the means of travelling which civilisation has forced upon us like a habit.†   (source)
  • But one fact was indubitable—she was in amicable relations with the highest dignitaries of all the churches and sects.†   (source)
  • The matter being thus amicably settled, Mr. Micawber gave Mrs. Micawber his arm, and glancing at the heap of books and papers lying before Traddles on the table, said they would leave us to ourselves; which they ceremoniously did.†   (source)
  • Judging by the calmly moderate and amicable tone in which the French Emperor spoke, Balashev was firmly persuaded that he wished for peace and intended to enter into negotiations.†   (source)
  • Far from amicably, it appears.†   (source)
  • As Mabel concluded, Cap and Arrowhead, who saw that the conference was amicable, drew nigh; and a few words sufficed to let them know as much as the girl herself had learned from the strangers.†   (source)
  • Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.†   (source)
  • A name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well by sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I remember, about a trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer's man breaking into his orchard; wall torn down; apples stolen; caught in the fact; and afterwards, contrary to my judgement, submitted to an amicable compromise.†   (source)
  • In the course of these civilities, a few sentences were exchanged, that served to establish the appearance of an amicable intercourse between the parties.†   (source)
  • This difference in opinion had long been a subject of amicable dispute between them: but, Latterly, the contest was getting to be too important to admit of trivial discussions on the part of Marmaduke, whose acute discernment was already catching faint glimmerings of the important events that were in embryo.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, choose whether you will summon Clifford, and allow this business to be amicably settled by an interview between two kinsmen, or drive me to harsher measures, which I should be most happy to feel myself justified in avoiding.†   (source)
  • 'That's quite true, Madame Mantalini,' said Miss Knag, with whom her late employer had secretly come to an amicable understanding on this point.†   (source)
  • There was a little steel in her temper, it's true, and, as old Hutter is pretty much flint, they struck out sparks once-and-a-while; but, on the whole, they might be said to live amicable like.†   (source)
  • Asinus displayed enough of magnanimity to render the interview amicable, and thenceforth the naturalist continued the required route with very commendable industry, but with a much more tempered discretion.†   (source)
  • As his lawsuit with the monastery still dragged on, he made it the pretext for seeing the Superior, in order to attempt to settle it amicably.†   (source)
  • She made her sit down by her on an ottoman, and began talking to her as amicably as if she had known her a long time.†   (source)
  • Next day the court is all alive—is like a fair, as Mrs. Perkins, more than reconciled to Mrs. Piper, says in amicable conversation with that excellent woman.†   (source)
  • Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees.†   (source)
  • Some difficulty occurred concerning the command of the vessel, but the matter had been finally settled by an amicable compromise.†   (source)
  • "I can believe this, Huron," resumed Judith, enacting her assumed part with a steadiness and dignity that did credit to her powers of imitation, for she strove to impart to her manner the condescending courtesy she had once observed in the wife of a general officer, at a similar though a more amicable scene: "I can believe you to be the principal person of this party; I see in your countenance the marks of thought and reflection.†   (source)
  • She greeted her host with affectionate respect and made a shrinking, but amicable salutation to Major Dobbin, who, as her instinct assured her at once, was her enemy, and had been speaking against her; and the bustle and clatter consequent upon her arrival brought Amelia out of her room.†   (source)
  • When he had finished with his speech, the governor walked out of the hall, and the noblemen noisily and eagerly—some even enthusiastically—followed him and thronged round him while he put on his fur coat and conversed amicably with the marshal of the province.†   (source)
  • Thus, the little circle remained, on the most amicable and agreeable footing, until the Monday morning, when Nicholas withdrew himself from it for a short time, seriously to reflect upon the state of his affairs, and to determine, if he could, upon some course of life, which would enable him to support those who were so entirely dependent upon his exertions.†   (source)
  • All this and a great deal more the two gentlemen who have formed an amicable partnership in the melancholy catastrophe write down on the spot; and the boy population of the court (out of bed in a moment) swarm up the shutters of the Sol's Arms parlour, to behold the tops of their heads while they are about it.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding the increasing warmth of the amicable contest, the most decorous Christian assembly, not even excepting those in which its reverend ministers are collected, might have learned a wholesome lesson of moderation from the forbearance and courtesy of the disputants.†   (source)
  • The sight of the old favorite spot always heightened Tom's good humor, and he spoke to Maggie in the most amicable whispers, as he opened the precious basket and prepared their tackle.†   (source)
  • Had you continued to remain on amicable terms with me, I should have said, 'Patience, my friend;' but you have constituted yourself my enemy, therefore I say, 'What does that signify to me, sir?'†   (source)
  • Here he raised his hand several times, with the palm outwards, and made several of those other signs, which are construed into a pledge of amicable intentions among the inhabitants of those regions.†   (source)
  • He therefore interrupted this amicable dialogue with his own voice; "I command you Nathaniel Bumppo, by my authority, to surrender your person to the law," he cried.†   (source)
  • "Don't believe it then," said the gentleman, smiling amicably, "what's the good of believing against your will?†   (source)
  • The aunts and uncles appeared to have been in warm discussion when the brother and sister entered,—both with shrinking reluctance; for though Tom, with a practical sagacity which had been roused into activity by the strong stimulus of the new emotions he had undergone since yesterday, had been turning over in his mind a plan which he meant to propose to one of his aunts or uncles, he felt by no means amicably toward them, and dreaded meeting them all at once as he would have dreaded a large dose of concentrated physic, which was but just endurable in small draughts.†   (source)
  • Le Renard fiercely ordered the Delawares, who still lingered in an impenetrable belt around him, in hopes he would listen to the amicable proposal, to open his path, threatening, by the glance of his eye, another appeal to the infallible justice of their "prophet."†   (source)
  • One fact more than the rest brought his friend "Sinbad the Sailor" back to his recollection, and that was the mysterious sort of intimacy that seemed to exist between the brigands and the sailors; and Pastrini's account of Vampa's having found refuge on board the vessels of smugglers and fishermen, reminded Franz of the two Corsican bandits he had found supping so amicably with the crew of the little yacht, which had even deviated from its course and touched at Porto-Vecchio for the sole purpose of landing them.†   (source)
  • I see but one amicable way of settling this dispute, which is as follows:—do you make a choice among your boys of any you will, and let us walk off together for the matter of a few miles into the prairies; the one who stays behind, can never trouble any man's house or his fixen, and the one who comes back may make the best of his way he can, in the good wishes of the young woman.†   (source)
  • The attorney started, as if unconscious of any impropriety, and continued: "So you settled the matter with Natty amicably on the spot, did you?"†   (source)
  • They had a very long, amicable, and confidential talk there, in the course of which Jos Sedley was somehow made aware (but in a manner that did not in the least scare or offend him) that Becky's heart had first learned to beat at his enchanting presence; that George Osborne had certainly paid an unjustifiable court to HER, which might account for Amelia's jealousy and thei†   (source)
  • In this manner they walked on, very amicably, until they arrived at Miss Knag's brother's, who was an ornamental stationer and small circulating library keeper, in a by-street off Tottenham Court Road; and who let out by the day, week, month, or year, the newest old novels, whereof the titles were displayed in pen-and-ink characters on a sheet of pasteboard, swinging at his door-post.†   (source)
  • It was remarkable that Ivan spoke quite amicably, in a different tone, not angry as before, so if any one had opened the door at that moment and peeped in at them, he would certainly have concluded that they were talking peaceably about some ordinary, though interesting, subject.†   (source)
  • it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute!†   (source)
  • Perfect amicability being thus restored, a dialogue naturally ensued upon the number and nature of the garments which would be indispensable for Miss Price's entrance into the holy state of matrimony, when Miss Squeers clearly showed that a great many more than the miller could, or would, afford, were absolutely necessary, and could not decently be dispensed with.†   (source)
  • He only knew that they had not engaged in the late expedition against William Henry; that, like the Hurons themselves they were allies of Montcalm; and that they maintained an amicable, though a watchful intercourse with the warlike and savage people whom chance had, for a time, brought in such close and disagreeable contact with themselves.†   (source)
  • With this amicable understanding, the old man drew back again into the ring, where he stood musing on the course he should now adopt, with the singular mixture of decision and resignation that proceeded from his habits and his humility, and which united to form a character, in which excessive energy, and the most meek submission to the will of Providence, were oddly enough combined.†   (source)
  • The more experienced and sagacious chiefs distinctly foresaw the utter impossibility of two partisans so renowned, so hostile, and who had so long been rivals in fame, as their prisoner and their native leader, existing amicably in the same tribe.†   (source)
  • In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.†   (source)
  • He was against an immediate complaint to government, and thought the proprietaries should first be personally appli'd to, who might possibly be induc'd by the interposition and persuasion of some private friends, to accommodate matters amicably.†   (source)
  • Partnerships often finish in quarrels; but I was happy in this, that mine were all carried on and ended amicably, owing, I think, a good deal to the precaution of having very explicitly settled, in our articles, every thing to be done by or expected from each partner, so that there was nothing to dispute, which precaution I would therefore recommend to all who enter into partnerships; for, whatever esteem partners may have for, and confidence in each othe†   (source)
  • Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it was declined.†   (source)
  • A Greek named /Zoyiopoulous/, /Kolokotronis/, /Mavrokerdatos/ or /Constantinopolous/ would find it practically impossible to carry on amicable business with Americans; his name would arouse their mirth, if not their downright ire.†   (source)
  • From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to
    yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
    From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces,
    and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.†   (source)
  • The curate settled all amicably, and Don Fernando paid; though the Judge had also very readily offered to pay the score; and all became so peaceful and quiet that the inn no longer reminded one of the discord of Agramante's camp, as Don Quixote said, but of the peace and tranquillity of the days of Octavianus: for all which it was the universal opinion that their thanks were due to the great zeal and eloquence of the curate, and to the unexampled generosity of Don Fernando.†   (source)
  • This has been so far accomplished as, under a continuation of the Union, to afford a decided prospect of an amicable termination of the dispute.†   (source)
  • To be brief, I bought a settlement next door to an honest and kind neighbour, born at Lisbon, of English parents, whose plantation joining to mine, we improved it very amicably together.†   (source)
  • After he had subdued them he made a law that every man might be of what religion he pleased, and might endeavour to draw others to it by the force of argument and by amicable and modest ways, but without bitterness against those of other opinions; but that he ought to use no other force but that of persuasion, and was neither to mix with it reproaches nor violence; and such as did otherwise were to be condemned to banishment or slavery.†   (source)
  • But not only fewer just causes of war will be given by the national government, but it will also be more in their power to accommodate and settle them amicably.†   (source)
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