Both Uses of
genial
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air.†
p. 60.7 *genial = friendly and good-natured
- In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.†
p. 65.6