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  • I was quite the busybody, as I felt that he was a guest of a kind, and I was by way of being the hostess, and so should do the hospitable thing.†   (source)
  • As soon as we have proof that the environment is hospitable, we'll begin recolonization."†   (source)
  • Renee was very hospitable.†   (source)
  • On the whole, the sheriff doesn't do much business, and his office, three sparsely furnished rooms, is ordinarily a quiet place popular with courthouse idlers; Mrs. Edna Richardton, his hospitable secretary, usually has a pot of coffee going and plenty of time to "chew the fat.†   (source)
  • Essey tried to remain hospitable, but I could tell that our presence in the cramped quarters was unwelcome.†   (source)
  • The two women spent the remaining days of spring trying to make their new camp more hospitable.†   (source)
  • "No, you ain't a-goin' to," Mrs. Bence said hospitably, pushing her into a seat.†   (source)
  • In the new house, located on the best corner of the square, in the shade of an almond tree that was honored by three nests of redbreasts, with a large door for visitors and four windows for light, they set up a hospitable home.†   (source)
  • The baldheaded man hospitably held the bottle out to the Captain.†   (source)
  • In reality, Americans and Europeans are usually treated hospitably in the developing world, and are much less likely to be robbed in an African village than in Paris or Rome.†   (source)
  • Mouzafer was a Balti, the mountain people who populated the least hospitable high-altitude valleys in northern Pakistan.†   (source)
  • To Pearce, Arizona and the United States had become too hospitable to immigrants.†   (source)
  • They were hospitable and delighted in parties, and in presents, which they gave away freely and eagerly accepted.†   (source)
  • 'Come on over for dinner with us some night, Yo-Yo,' Colonel Cathcart invited hospitably.†   (source)
  • Definitely not hospitable.†   (source)
  • But get past all those superficial attributes, and you found people who were supremely intelligent, loving, hospitable, and generous.†   (source)
  • Retirees wanted hospitable places to eat and bank, they wanted places to shop.†   (source)
  • Oddly enough, it's the one place in the world that has a hypnotic hold on him-and also the one that's the least hospitable.†   (source)
  • Yet on departure from the First Congress inlate October of 1774, after a stay of two months, he had written wistfully of the "happy, peaceful, the elegant, the hospitable, and polite city of Philadelphia," wondering if he would ever be back.†   (source)
  • In a clock tick, the future was no longer a kingdom of possibility and wonder, but a yoke of obligation—and only the unattainable past offered a hospitable place to live.†   (source)
  • South Freeport is a small town on the coast of Maine, up the Harraseeket River, sheltered from the storms of the North Atlantic in one of the hundreds of deep inlets that make this shoreline so photogenic and so hospitable to seafarers.†   (source)
  • Cold Sassy took pride in being hospitable to outsiders, so Miss Love had always got her share of invites.†   (source)
  • "Good evening, gentlemen," Commerce said hospitably.†   (source)
  • And yet, the nomadic tribes who summered there with the reindeer had not journeyed with the herd's migration southwest along the coast to the more hospitable sea on the south side of the peninsula.†   (source)
  • I learned how to be hospitable and to value people no matter what their skin color or whether they were rich or poor.†   (source)
  • He is a good fellow, hospitable and friendly; he seemed to become attached to me and trusted me completely.†   (source)
  • We learned to be hospitable.†   (source)
  • She was stunningly pretty and meltingly pleasant, and as I watched her depart, moving with easy undulant grace across the thick carpet of the room—which for the first time I perceived in all of its paneled, hospitably warm, book-lined, unostentatious luxury—my heart gave a heave: Why, instead of the floundering, broke, unpublished writer that I was, couldn't I be an attractive, intelligent, well-paid Jewish urologist with a sexy wife?†   (source)
  • Encased in a glass-paneled office, looking imperiously out on a confusion of jangling telephones, scurrying copy boys, aged gents in green eyeshades, and marvelously cynical-looking men at typewriters who could only be reporters, he seemed as hospitable as a famished tiger.†   (source)
  • They were a hospitable couple and they made a point (I feel for religious reasons) of offering hospitality to frightened or stranded foreigners.†   (source)
  • The climate is the sort that Florida and California claim (and neither has), the land is lovely, the people are friendly and hospitable to strangers, the women are beautiful and amazingly anxious to please— I could go back.†   (source)
  • The Gromekos were cultivated, hospitable, and great connoisseurs and lovers of music.†   (source)
  • Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.   (source)
  • He was very hospitable and jolly.   (source)
  • "Better to be without logic than without feeling," retorted Frances, who was now passing backwards and forwards from her cupboard to the table, intent, if not on hospitable thoughts, at least on hospitable deeds...   (source)
  • Be hospitable to one another without complaint.   (source)
  • My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind;   (source)
  • a hospitable act
  • I lived near Victoria Station, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary.   (source)
  • soil sufficiently hospitable for forest growth
  • ...and everyone felt at home at once, all were so hospitable and kind.   (source)
  • The city offers a hospitable business environment.
  • We're famously hospitable, in fact, even by southern standards.†   (source)
  • Maybe we can find something more hospitable for you.†   (source)
  • Everyone has been most hospitable, my lady.†   (source)
  • The more she thought about it, the less hospitable she felt toward the man.†   (source)
  • Or was it a hospitable gesture, the only English reading material his hosts had on hand?†   (source)
  • Ohio may not be much more hospitable to black folks in other ways, but at least they aren't slaves there.†   (source)
  • Dr. Binswanger has been most hospitable, and has given me access to some of the more interesting cases here.†   (source)
  • One of us has to be the hospitable one.†   (source)
  • The two with the most humanity, Birkin and Ursula, decide to head back downhill to more hospitable climes, while Gerald and Gudrun stay.†   (source)
  • That seemed the most accurate, though if Tartarus was a dome, Annabeth guessed it was like the sky—with no real bottom but made of multiple layers, each one darker and less hospitable than the last.†   (source)
  • My assistants there would have put you straight through to me—no need to go through less hospitable channels.†   (source)
  • And Drizzt had little desire to return to the lightless underworld, even in the hospitable caverns of the dwarven town.†   (source)
  • Reportedly, a calm, cheerfully hospitable Jefferson insisted that Jouett have a glass of his best Madeira before continuing on to Charlottesville.†   (source)
  • In that discomfort, breathing quicklime and tar, no one could see very well how from the bowels of the earth there was rising not only the largest house is the town, but the most hospitable and cool house that had ever existed in the region of the swamp.†   (source)
  • One of these, a tall lank woman of perhaps thirty years, got up and followed a few hesitating paces, apparently more as a matter of curiosity than with any hospitable intent.†   (source)
  • She was aware that she was being anything but hospitable, and that the man didn't understand what she said.†   (source)
  • He had no need to make a hospitable impression anymore, and a cigarette wasn't the last taste he wanted to have in his mouth.†   (source)
  • Many fortune hunters or hiding scoundrels continued to filter into the region, but an equal number were killed or grew disenchanted with the brutal conditions and returned to the more hospitable south.†   (source)
  • It was obvious that she liked the house, that she spent the whole year dreaming about the excitement of the young people her arrival brought around, and that she was not far removed from the festive vocation and hospitable excesses of her father.†   (source)
  • They waited half of each year, in rooms choked with smoke from yak dung fires, for the weather to become hospitable enough for them to return outdoors.†   (source)
  • Calling on his women friends at their hospitable apartments in quiet Moscow back streets, he amiably teased them and their husbands on their backwardness and parochialism.†   (source)
  • "Shall we go in?" he would ask her, and he would turn to her and gesture hospitably toward the front door.†   (source)
  • Mammal and Nasserine hospitably offered us their bedroom, since they were just as comfortable sleeping on the floor of another room as in their double bed.†   (source)
  • But McWatt winked at him reassuringly as he climbed down from the plane and joshed hospitably with the credulous new pilot and bombardier during the jeep ride back to the squadron, although he did not address a word to Yossarian until all four had returned their parachutes and separated and the two of them were walking side by side toward their own row of tents.†   (source)
  • The woman caught him by the wrists before he could fall as he came stumbling toward her in need and pulled him along down on top of her as she flopped over backward onto the bed and enveloped him hospitably in her flaccid and consoling embrace, her dust mop aloft in her hand like a banner as her broad, brutish congenial face gazed up at him fondly with a smile of unperjured friendship.†   (source)
  • I need my third glass of port; I need that hospitable tray in the library.†   (source)
  • With a hospitable hand, he indicated a table on the veranda bearing assorted bottles.†   (source)
  • There will be no hospitable Mexicans to receive you at the end of this journey.†   (source)
  • It is because she has a necessity to be hospitable to these knights.†   (source)
  • This hospitable mood came upon the house suddenly, nothing had been prepared beforehand.†   (source)
  • It had been a hospitable shelter to him in his extremity.†   (source)
  • The track went on, more sharply downhill, and at one spot Conway found some edelweiss, the first welcome sign of more hospitable levels.†   (source)
  • At first, strangers in a strange town, they were glad to accept invitations to the lavish entertainments of the wealthy and hospitable Mrs. Butler, but they soon drifted out of her set.†   (source)
  • "We were on a journey to visit our relatives, our nephews and nieces, and first, second, and third cousins, and the other descendants of our grandfathers, who live on the East side of these truly hospitable mountains," said Thorin, not quite knowing what to say all at once in a moment, when obviously the exact truth would not do at all.†   (source)
  • They all disappeared when Manuel Lujon walked out of the great house, hat in hand, smiling and hospitable.†   (source)
  • Barnard was able to joke quite cheerfully about beds, baths, breakfasts, and other hospitable amenities.†   (source)
  • …out of the bank, with the dark water keeping pace with us, in the green shade, with the great trees towering above us and the monkeys screeching in the sunlight, high overhead among the flowers on the roof of the forest; on the veranda of a hospitable ranch, where the ice and the dice clicked, and a tiger cat played with its chain on the mown grass—that they seemed voices so distant as to be meaningless; their matter passed clean through the mind, and out, leaving no mark, like the…†   (source)
  • I'm not not sure whether Mintouchian was trying to do that, but if he was he didn't stand a chance, because I wasn't hospitable to suspicions.†   (source)
  • Sir Grummore and Sir Palomides had been in the ship, and they had kindly turned it round to pursue the Beast The three of them had arrived on the coast of Flanders, where the Beast had disappeared in a forest, and there, while they were staying at a hospitable castle, Pellinore had fallen in love with the Queen of Flanders' daughter.†   (source)
  • Not, indeed, until he had begun a cigarette did he give a gentle lead to his curiosity; he remarked then, addressing Chang: "You seem a very fortunate community, and most hospitable to strangers.†   (source)
  • In that event they would by now have reached the loftiest and least hospitable part of the earth's surface, the Tibetan plateau, two miles high even in its lowest valleys, a vast, uninhabited, and largely unexplored region of windswept upland.†   (source)
  • He was genuinely hospitable, and the gambler down on his luck, the soldier sobering up, were always welcome at his table.†   (source)
  • Certainly it was a great piece of luck for Father Latour and Father Vaillant, who lived so much among peons and Indians and rough frontiersmen, to be able to converse in their own tongue now and then with a cultivated woman; to sit by that hospitable fireside, in rooms enriched by old mirrors and engravings and upholstered chairs, where the windows had clean curtains, and the sideboard and cupboards were stocked with plate and Belgian glass.†   (source)
  • The cowboys were not cordial in their reception of this visit, but they were hospitable.†   (source)
  • He passed for an Englishman, was agreeable, handsome, ill-tempered, hospitable and witty.†   (source)
  • They are very hospitable people, and I am sure that they would be very glad to see you.†   (source)
  • We are very hospitable upon the Ghost.†   (source)
  • But she is a most hospitable lady and treated us royally.†   (source)
  • Joralemon welcomes you to her hospitable city.†   (source)
  • But will not the general be too hospitable for you?†   (source)
  • That is why I wonder whether such a man is not too hospitable for you and me.†   (source)
  • Give it a name, Thquire!' said Mr. Sleary, with hospitable ease.†   (source)
  • Never had visitors a more hospitable reception.†   (source)
  • The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is peculiar to hospitable natures.†   (source)
  • These people are about as hospitable as the savages of New Caledonia!†   (source)
  • I knew when the hospitable old lady sent the dooli.†   (source)
  • She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day, she said.†   (source)
  • But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable, free-and-easy whaler!†   (source)
  • We found the people of the town hospitable, rich and fond of entertainments.†   (source)
  • Or—Stelling is a hospitable, pleasant man—he'd be glad to have you stay."†   (source)
  • The guests bowed deeply to the mourning parent, and withdrew from their hospitable guide.†   (source)
  • She liked his serene, friendly, and hospitable manner in the country.†   (source)
  • For poverty enriches those who live above it, and is a sure passport to truly hospitable spirits.†   (source)
  • That winter the Karagins' house was the most agreeable and hospitable in Moscow.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.†   (source)
  • Above all, he was known to be liberal and hospitable, and believed to be good-natured.†   (source)
  • His very clothes seemed to partake of the hospitable nature of the wearer.†   (source)
  • He is a most hospitable creature.†   (source)
  • They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality, give a guest everything and leave him to do as he likes.†   (source)
  • I meant to be so—so—hospitable.†   (source)
  • He took a pull at the small beer, which probably reminded him of hospitable duties, for his next speech ran thus: "If ye're dry ye'll find water behind the door."†   (source)
  • Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive—not to say drunk.†   (source)
  • All the other speakers had confessed, "I cannot keep from telling the citizens of your beautiful city that none of the talent on this circuit have found a more charming spot or more enterprising and hospitable people."†   (source)
  • Inherently hospitable, he protested.†   (source)
  • Having been graduated a year earlier than Martin and having married an almost rich wife, he was kind and hospitable with an emphasis which aroused a desire to do homicide.†   (source)
  • He was very hospitable and jolly.†   (source)
  • Duane remained all day with this hospitable Jones, and as twilight fell was loath to go and yielded to a pressing invitation to remain overnight.†   (source)
  • He got so cold, standing still, and the hospitable barn looked so enticing, that at last he resolved to risk everything and enter.†   (source)
  • …and his wife—for they had a mayor there, among other unnecessaries; the justice of the peace; the widow Douglass, fair, smart, and forty, a generous, good-hearted soul and well-to-do, her hill mansion the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities that St. Petersburg could boast; the bent and venerable Major and Mrs. Ward; lawyer Riverson, the new notable from a distance; next the belle of the village, followed by a troop of…†   (source)
  • The old man rose with hospitable haste, and opening the door, was heard condoling with the new arrival.†   (source)
  • Training and experience had taught her to be hospitable to newcomers, since the most unpromising might be useful later on, and there were plenty of available OUBLIETTES to swallow them if they were not.†   (source)
  • On seeing the City Magistrate alone with a maiden at twilight, he had borne down on them with hospitable intent.†   (source)
  • He pushed their chairs two inches forward and three inches back, which gave an hospitable note, then leaned back in his desk-chair and looked plump and jolly.†   (source)
  • He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny at Little Girls Point.†   (source)
  • James carried me accordingly into the kitchen, and sat down with me at table, smiling and talking at first in a very hospitable manner.†   (source)
  • It was pleasant yesterday afternoon—yes, yes, only yesterday afternoon—at that hospitable inn—I have forgotten the name— where we enjoyed those excellent scrambled eggs and salami and that wholesome country wine.†   (source)
  • Helen was telegraphed for, and that spring party that after all gathered in that hospitable house had all the pathos of fair memories.†   (source)
  • Sir Gerald's room was, except for his ponderous and durable English bags, very much like the room of George F. Babbitt; and quite in the manner of Babbitt he disclosed a huge whisky flask, looked proud and hospitable, and chuckled, "Say, when, old chap."†   (source)
  • If he did, these domestic activities were privately performed, and he presented to the world the appearance of a careless and hospitable millionaire strolling into his own drawing-room with the detachment of an invited guest, and saying: "My wife's gloxinias are a marvel, aren't they?†   (source)
  • Thomas and his wife are hospitable folk, elderly, and without children, and if the specimen I enjoyed of their hospitality be of the average kind, their lives must be pretty comfortable.†   (source)
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, it is not the first time that we have gathered together under this hospitable roof, around this hospitable board.†   (source)
  • Duane wanted to cross the river if that was possible, and, keeping in the brake, work his way upstream till he had reached country more hospitable.†   (source)
  • The table then spoke of Mount Melleray, how bracing the air was down there, how hospitable the monks were and how they never asked for a penny-piece from their guests.†   (source)
  • She had grown tired of what people called "society"; New York was kind, it was almost oppressively hospitable; she should never forget the way in which it had welcomed her back; but after the first flush of novelty she had found herself, as she phrased it, too "different" to care for the things it cared about—and so she had decided to try Washington, where one was supposed to meet more varieties of people and of opinion.†   (source)
  • Here's what that gushy woman reporter says about last night:" Never is Society with the big, big S more flattered than when they are bidden to partake of good cheer at the distinguished and hospitable residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. McKelvey as they were last night.†   (source)
  • She rested then, while Carol looked about the room—the welcome to strangers, the sanctuary of hospitable Main Street, the lucrative property of Kennicott's friend, Jackson Elder.†   (source)
  • Too hospitable?†   (source)
  • The Lovell Mingotts had sent out cards for what was known as "a formal dinner" (that is, three extra footmen, two dishes for each course, and a Roman punch in the middle), and had headed their invitations with the words "To meet the Countess Olenska," in accordance with the hospitable American fashion, which treats strangers as if they were royalties, or at least as their ambassadors.†   (source)
  • Orators were announcing that "Galop de Vache, the Capital City, the site of Kremer College and of the Upholtz Knitting Works, is the recognized center of culture and high-class enterprise;" and that "Hamburg, the Big Little City with the Logical Location, where every man is open-handed and every woman a heaven-born hostess, throws wide to you her hospitable gates."†   (source)
  • "You'd better see what you have got before you think of having company," said Meg, when informed of the hospitable but rash act.†   (source)
  • If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold.†   (source)
  • With this measured, but not exactly cold assurance of a hospitable purpose, Hepzibah kissed her cheek.†   (source)
  • It is certainly not very hospitable; but we must remember his aversion to the customs of civilized life.†   (source)
  • Giving his wife a hearty kiss, and Nicholas a no less hearty shake of the hand, John mounted his horse and rode off: leaving Mrs Browdie to apply herself to hospitable preparations, and his young friend to stroll about the neighbourhood, and revisit spots which were rendered familiar to him by many a miserable association.†   (source)
  • Thus, one still reads in France, above the wicket of the prison in the seignorial mansion of Tourville, ~Sileto et spera~; in Ireland, beneath the armorial bearings which surmount the grand door to Fortescue Castle, ~Forte scutum, salus ducum~; in England, over the principal entrance to the hospitable mansion of the Earls Cowper: ~Tuum est~.†   (source)
  • But they can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires set the hearts of their youth on flame.†   (source)
  • What with the military men, a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels, and the hospitable efforts of the purser, the time passed quickly on the Mongolia.†   (source)
  • Now and then one may find such a cabin kept scrupulously neat, with merry steaming fireplaces and hospitable door; but the majority are dirty and dilapidated, smelling of eating and sleeping, poorly ventilated, and anything but homes.†   (source)
  • She met his eyes with her clear hospitable smile, which seemed almost to ask that he would come and help her to entertain some of her visitors.†   (source)
  • Chapter III Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom The gentleman in the ample white cravat and shirt-frill, taking his brandy-and-water so pleasantly with his good friend Tulliver, is Mr. Riley, a gentleman with a waxen complexion and fat hands, rather highly educated for an auctioneer and appraiser, but large-hearted enough to show a great deal of bonhomie toward simple country acquaintances of hospitable habits.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rouncewell is full of hospitable cares, for Sir Leicester and my Lady are coming home from Paris.†   (source)
  • This obstinate old fellow, who was really a very good sort, kind-hearted and hospitable, had had two wives, both dead.†   (source)
  • In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.†   (source)
  • His hospitable attentions were brief, but expressive, being confined to a shake of the hand, a slap on the shoulder, a loud laugh, and a pressing invitation to "fall to, and help themselves."†   (source)
  • This too is afforded by the hospitable anchorite, who dispatches an assistant to fetch a pot of four gallons from a secret corner near his bed, and the whole three set in to serious drinking.†   (source)
  • Godfrey, sorely uncomfortable under this significant insistence about Nancy, and afraid to think where it would end by the time his father had set his usual hospitable example of drinking before and after supper, saw no course open but to turn to Nancy and say, with as little awkwardness as possible— "No; I've not asked her yet, but I hope she'll consent—if somebody else hasn't been before me."†   (source)
  • Charming people, Mr. and Mrs. Weston;—Mrs. Weston indeed is much beyond praise, and he is exactly what one values, so hospitable, and so fond of society;—it will be a small party, but where small parties are select, they are perhaps the most agreeable of any.†   (source)
  • Mr. Peggotty and Ham knew what was in my thoughts as well as I did, and were ready with some supper and their hospitable faces to drive it away.†   (source)
  • But in spite of that he made polite and hospitable inquiries of Vassenka about his shooting, his gun, and his boots, and agreed to go shooting next day.†   (source)
  • I had lit their candles to go upstairs, but Diana had first to give hospitable orders respecting the driver; this done, both followed me.†   (source)
  • _ The little party were soon guided, by Mrs. Smyth, to the hospitable abode of a good missionary, whom Christian charity has placed here as a shepherd to the outcast and wandering, who are constantly finding an asylum on this shore.†   (source)
  • I thought this kind and hospitable in him, considering his obstinacy about his theory; and hastened to say that I did not mean to be angry, only emphatic.†   (source)
  • But he wished to repress outward signs, and only Dorothea could discern the changes in her husband's face before he observed with more of dignified bending and sing-song than usual— "You are exceedingly hospitable, my dear sir; and I owe you acknowledgments for exercising your hospitality towards a relative of mine."†   (source)
  • As has been already stated, in the preceding pages, the author of this volume spent some time under her hospitable roof.†   (source)
  • The Rostovs lived in the same hospitable way in Petersburg as in Moscow, and the most diverse people met at their suppers.†   (source)
  • Mr and Mrs Musgrove were a very good sort of people; friendly and hospitable, not much educated, and not at all elegant.†   (source)
  • The term might easily mislead one as to the character of the people, who, notwithstanding their pleasant use of so expressive a word, are, like the inhabitants of all new settlements, hospitable and honest.†   (source)
  • When Ralph said to her, as he had done several times, "I wonder you find this endurable; you ought to see some of the neighbours and some of our friends, because we have really got a few, though you would never suppose it"—when he offered to invite what he called a "lot of people" and make her acquainted with English society, she encouraged the hospitable impulse and promised in advance to hurl herself into the fray.†   (source)
  • "In coming to your hospitable tent, O sheik," he said, calmly, when the Arab was seated and they were alone, "it was not in my mind to speak of myself further than to assure you I had sufficient training to be intrusted with your horses.†   (source)
  • This hospitable young lady had espied an acquaintance on the other side of the house, and had expressed her displeasure at his not having the civility to come and pay her a visit.†   (source)
  • Even this hospitable person, however, was left behind at last, and Clennam pursued his way, unmolested.†   (source)
  • His people were the inhabitants of a more northern and less hospitable region than their enemies, and were far from being rich in that species of property, horses and arms, which constitutes the most highly prized wealth of a western Indian.†   (source)
  • Now, one of two things, either they have taken flight, and the pallet, which they must have forgotten in their terror, is precisely that hospitable bed in search of which you have been running ever since morning, and which madame the Virgin miraculously sends you, in order to recompense you for having made a morality in her honor, accompanied by triumphs and mummeries; or the children have not taken flight, and in that case they have put the brand to the pallet, and that is precisely…†   (source)
  • She is upon the Wheel and wholly given over to the shows of this life, but none the less, chela, she is virtuous, kindly, hospitable—of a whole and zealous heart.†   (source)
  • With his hospitable intellect he embraces children, beggars, insane, and scholars, and entertains the thought of all, adding to it commonly some breadth and elegance.†   (source)
  • "Don't you be at all put out, miss, by the want of a hospitable look from Mrs. Snagsby there, because she's under a mistake altogether.†   (source)
  • It speaks the truth, and it is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations, and scornful of being scorned.†   (source)
  • You've opened your house to Jones and me in the most generous way; Jones was remarking upon it to-day, just before you came back from the village; for although he wouldn't be likely to say such a thing to you—because Jones isn't a talker, and is diffident in society—he has a good heart and a grateful, and knows how to appreciate it when he is well treated; yes, you and your wife have been very hospitable toward us—"†   (source)
  • Mrs Harville, a degree less polished than her husband, seemed, however, to have the same good feelings; and nothing could be more pleasant than their desire of considering the whole party as friends of their own, because the friends of Captain Wentworth, or more kindly hospitable than their entreaties for their all promising to dine with them.†   (source)
  • It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he would find perhaps a little pity.†   (source)
  • Dr. Flint made his visit to New York, and made every exertion to call upon me, and invite me to return with him, but not being able to ascertain where I was, his hospitable intentions were frustrated, and the affectionate family, who were waiting for me with "open arms," were doomed to disappointment.†   (source)
  • Having done the honours of his house in this hospitable manner, Mr. Peggotty went out to wash himself in a kettleful of hot water, remarking that 'cold would never get his muck off'.†   (source)
  • Mild and hospitable when at peace, though merciless in war beyond any known degree of human ferocity, the Indian would expose himself to die of hunger in order to succor the stranger who asked admittance by night at the door of his hut; yet he could tear in pieces with his hands the still quivering limbs of his prisoner.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bounderby looked more astonished than hospitable, at sight of this uninvited party in his dining-room.†   (source)
  • Just within the entrance, however, stood two serving-men, pointing some of the guests to the neighborhood of the kitchen and ushering others into the statelier rooms,—hospitable alike to all, but still with a scrutinizing regard to the high or low degree of each.†   (source)
  • …green wood chairs, old and firm; a small flag-bottomed rocking-chair, with a patch-work cushion in it, neatly contrived out of small pieces of different colored woollen goods, and a larger sized one, motherly and old, whose wide arms breathed hospitable invitation, seconded by the solicitation of its feather cushions,—a real comfortable, persuasive old chair, and worth, in the way of honest, homely enjoyment, a dozen of your plush or brochetelle drawing-room gentry; and in the chair,…†   (source)
  • Many a glass of wine have we all of us drunk, I have very little doubt, hob-and-nobbing with the hospitable giver and wondering how the deuce he paid for it.†   (source)
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