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cordial as in:  a cordial reception

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  • Their tent seemed to be pitched right alongside a kind of thoroughfare to the field, and Ministry members kept hurrying up and down it, greeting Mr. Weasley cordially as they passed.†   (source)
  • We'll try to keep it cordial, although of course we started off on the wrong foot.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Aibileen is no more than cordial with me, nervous, stands at the kitchen sink and never stops working.†   (source)
  • He learned to be cordial to everyone—a sophisticated and ultimately false front.†   (source)
  • We mustn't be afraid to change!" he added cordially, but his wife ignored him.†   (source)
  • Whatever their relationship was, it wasn't cordial.†   (source)
  • Jon Arryn and he had been cordial, but never friendly.†   (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)
  • The soldiers, really not much older than I, were cordial, even 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)
  • 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)
  • "We see Theodore Decker?" the younger, Italian-looking guy said to Mr. Borowsky as the older one peered cordially inside the classroom.†   (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)
  • He and Kim remained cordial but distant, no matter how much I tried to sell them on each other.†   (source)
  • She shows him into the library, where a fire has been lit and two glasses of some unknown cordial set ready.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Burnham was decisive, blunt, and cordial; he spoke under a level blue gaze that Olmsted found reassuring.†   (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)
  • Although she seemed expansive and cordial, she had a solitary character and an impenetrable heart.†   (source)
  • Eragon asked, eager to return to more cordial footing with Arya but also genuinely curious.†   (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)
  • My aunts had been very cordial to Ultima.†   (source)
  • I see the señor's having a hard time deciding," Mustafa remarked cordially.†   (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)
  • There is, of course, no reason at all to suppose our meeting will be anything but cordial.†   (source)
  • Walt Disney sent Kroc a cordial reply and forwarded his proposal to an executive in charge of the theme park's concessions.†   (source)
  • She firmly shook my hand and cordially introduced herself.†   (source)
  • "So sorry to have wasted your time," he said with mock cordiality.†   (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)
  • They managed to exchange cordial good-byes and separate peacefully, though all four knew they were in for a brawl.†   (source)
  • "Certainly glad you finally made it, old man," said the Humbug, cordially pumping Milo's hand.†   (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)
  • The two men smile cordially, but there is steel in their eyes.†   (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)
  • Jack is usually cordial, due, Cedric figures, to his passing friendship with James.†   (source)
  • Shawn agreed but was still wary and cordial at best when he was one on one with his brother.†   (source)
  • He gave Tomas his hand and pumped it cordially.†   (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)
  • Milkman hadn't seen him this relaxed and cordial in a long long time.†   (source)
  • Good evenin' yourself," returned Himes with unusual cordiality.†   (source)
  • As the days passed, Ameh Bozorg grew less cordial.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It is miruvor, the cordial of Imladris.†   (source)
  • He shakes hands with both men, his face jovial, cordial.†   (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)
  • Despite Bram's attempts to be cordial, Max could tell that Ms.†   (source)
  • She managed to be cordial and distant at once.†   (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)
  • His demeanor suggested anything but cordiality.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was the beginning of many such afternoons, all of them stimulating, cordial, and memorable.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The play of light on frosted bottles of red rowanberry cordial caught the eye.†   (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)
  • We had a cordial exchange of ideas.
  • She greeted us cordially.
  • Mrs. Braddocks insisted cordially.   (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
  • They've been awfully cordial to me.   (source)
    cordial = friendly
  • Then his temper switched tracks and he smiled cordially again.†   (source)
  • His voice was very faint, very scratchy, very cordial, with a ghastly pulmonary whistle.†   (source)
  • However, German soldiers could change in an instant from cordial to brutal.†   (source)
  • He was cordial and tireless in his efforts to please her and, indeed, to please Anna as well.†   (source)
  • I did not want any of that kind of trouble, and to keep a cordial distance would be best.†   (source)
  • But he stood up and shook my hand with genuine cordiality when we came in.†   (source)
  • "You bet," said my father, through the closed door, in an unnaturally cordial tone.†   (source)
  • "Right you are," said the Indonesian, just as cordially.†   (source)
  • "Matter of some furniture," he said cordially.†   (source)
  • "Aunty," she said, cordially, "why don't you go pee in your hat?"†   (source)
  • Arys Oakheart was courteous, and would talk to her cordially.†   (source)
  • Not like they're dating, but at least they're cordial.†   (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)
  • Every expression of tenderness is a cordial to my heart.†   (source)
  • He closed the door behind me and offered me a seat, gracing me with a cordial grin.†   (source)
  • He was altogether gracious and cordial, and for the most part we simply made pleasantries.†   (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)
  • General Peckem was blossoming spryly with cordiality again.†   (source)
  • Then she carefully dripped on to it one single drop of the cordial from her flask.†   (source)
  • Bigari was cordial, good-natured, passionate about his work, proud of the new devices.†   (source)
  • He was extremely cordial and reciprocated these sentiments.†   (source)
  • Adams and Pickering were said to "hate each other with the utmost cordiality."†   (source)
  • The two of them have talked on the phone a few times, and it's been cordial.†   (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)
  • In time this would lift — in later years they reestab-lished, if not a close relationship, then certainly a cordial one.†   (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 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)
  • And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked.†   (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)
  • Carefully, the Count removed the little cordial glass from his back pocket and placed it on the counter.†   (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 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)
  • Aureliano Segundo was the only one who felt a cordial compassion for him and he tried to break his perseverance.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He was always charming and cordial, but there were times when even these traits failed to put his business associates at ease.†   (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)
  • "You boys look fine, fine," he said in his full and cordial voice, "better I would say than those doughboys—G.†   (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)
  • The men were cordial.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Hands, hands," said Boris cordially.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino, in fact, shook his hand with warm cordiality, and on occasion even permitted himself a pat on the shoulder.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • " '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)
  • 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)
  • In this short message, I would like to welcome you back to Monterrey and cordially recognize you for your sports victory.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 'Please make yourself comfortable, Chaplain,' invited the colonel cordially, switching on a blinding spotlight and shooting it squarely into the chaplain's face.†   (source)
  • DURING THE 197Os the cordial relationship between Monfort executives and workers at the Greeley slaughterhouse came to an end.†   (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)
  • '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)
  • Both mother and father, he assured Louisa Catherine, were waiting to receive her with "most cordial affection."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He found Franklin cordial but aloof, easygoing to the point of indolence, distressingly slipshod about details and about money.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 parchment) from Heidelberg and Leipzig, this bound volume of collected essays published in Mainz, Die polnische Judenfrage, et cetera and so on.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 a cordial made of the juice of one of the fire-flowers 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)
  • 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)
  • There are no cordialities,'and Cedric can't meet Rivera's gaze as he sidesteps through the doorway and sits.†   (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)
  • Aloud, with great cordiality, they all said: "How are you, Les?"†   (source)
  • Let us meet the Archbishop with cordial thanksgiving : Our lord, our Archbishop returns.†   (source)
  • The chubby red face of Benito Hoover was beaming down at him-beaming with manifest cordiality.†   (source)
  • In my lamentable state I was half-thankful for the cordiality with which he threw himself on me.†   (source)
  • I did so, and received a cordial, though naturally a somewhat astonished, welcome.†   (source)
  • "Excellent work," said M. Bouc cordially.†   (source)
  • Alvah Scarret unbent to the point of cordiality, but kept a wary distance.†   (source)
  • Thus an armistice was signed and relations, if not cordial, were at least established.†   (source)
  • The result was that our relations became more cordial.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to us with his usual friendly cordiality.†   (source)
  • "But of course!" he cried, making up for his first hesitations with an excess of noisy cordiality.†   (source)
  • Sister Veve had a narrow discontented face, a metallic vivacity, an effusive cordiality.†   (source)
  • Conway's smile became more definitely cordial.†   (source)
  • So cordially indeed that Bernard felt a sharp pang of jealousy.†   (source)
  • It is, however, an attitude that I most cordially welcome.†   (source)
  • LARRY—(without cordiality) What's up?†   (source)
  • In short, Uncle Charlie was extremely indulgent with him as an up-and-comer, and he received all the marks of the old boy's favor, the simple cordial obscenities and hand on the shoulder; he wagged his head near Simon's face and opened up all bounties.†   (source)
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  • I thought it was the cordial.   (source)
    cordial = a type of sweet, fruit-flavored drink
  • Sweet cordials and heavy ales were consumed in copious amounts, adding to the boisterous atmosphere.†   (source)
  • Cordials.†   (source)
  • You can call it physick all you like, but I think she's brewing up more than cordials in that croft of her'n.†   (source)
  • Why, three of those big glasses would have made her sick even if it had only been cordial.   (source)
  • "Not a thing but raspberry cordial," sobbed Anne.   (source)
  • The tumblerfuls were generous ones and the raspberry cordial was certainly very nice.   (source)
  • She jumped up hurriedly and said suppose they go in and have some raspberry cordial.   (source)
  • You went and gave Diana currant wine instead of raspberry cordial.   (source)
  • I didn't know raspberry cordial was so nice.   (source)
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  • "That's awfully nice raspberry cordial, Anne," she said.   (source)
  • I was firmly convinced it was raspberry cordial.   (source)
  • I thought it was only raspberry cordial.   (source)
  • "I should think Marilla's raspberry cordial would prob'ly be much nicer than Mrs. Lynde's," said Anne loyally.   (source)
  • Anne looked on the second shelf of the room pantry but there was no bottle of raspberry cordial there.   (source)
  • But there's a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.   (source)
  • I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk, Marilla—not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did.   (source)
  • And at the same time Marilla recollected that she had put the bottle of raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the pantry as she had told Anne.   (source)
  • When Anne came back from the kitchen Diana was drinking her second glassful of cordial; and, being entreated thereto by Anne, she offered no particular objection to the drinking of a third.   (source)
  • Then she wept all the way back to Green Gables, where she sorrowfully put the remainder of the raspberry cordial back into the pantry and got tea ready for Matthew and Jerry, with all the zest gone out of the performance.   (source)
  • While I fetched a mug from the dresser to pour some cordials for the sick man, the rector went on ahead of me to the upstairs bedchamber.†   (source)
  • Sometimes sickly sweet, sometimes astringent, the scents of herbal brews and cordials wafted powerfully from the precincts of the little home.†   (source)
  • In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.†   (source)
  • Appearances were certainly not in Mr Kenwigs's favour, for the exertion of speaking with so much vehemence, and yet in such a tone as should prevent his lamentations reaching the ears of Mrs Kenwigs, had made him very black in the face; besides which, the excitement of the occasion, and an unwonted indulgence in various strong cordials to celebrate it, had swollen and dilated his features to a most unusual extent.†   (source)
  • But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as 'quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)'; 'Half-quartern gin and cloves (Mrs. C.)'; 'Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)' — the parentheses always referring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation, to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.†   (source)
  • We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.†   (source)
  • They would not listen to scruples: he was obeyed; they were all beneath his roof; and while Louisa, under Mrs Harville's direction, was conveyed up stairs, and given possession of her own bed, assistance, cordials, restoratives were supplied by her husband to all who needed them.†   (source)
  • Her sister, however, still sanguine, was willing to attribute the change to nothing more than the fatigue of having sat up to have her bed made; and carefully administering the cordials prescribed, saw her, with satisfaction, sink at last into a slumber, from which she expected the most beneficial effects.†   (source)
  • The enormous pantry shelves were nearly filled now with pastries, cordials, hams, and assorted delicacies.†   (source)
  • Mrs Western and a great number of servants soon came to the assistance of Sophia with water, cordials, and everything necessary on those occasions.†   (source)
  • And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.†   (source)
  • It was near five weeks that I kept my bed and though the violence of my fever abated in three weeks, yet it several times returned; and the physicians said two or three times, they could do no more for me, but that they must leave nature and the distemper to fight it out, only strengthening the first with cordials to maintain the struggle.†   (source)
  • Several cordials was likewise prescribed in the same ineffective manner; till the landlord ordered up a tankard of strong beer, with a toast, which he said was the best cordial in England.†   (source)
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