All 17 Uses of
amiable
in
The Border Legion
- That had been the trouble—Jim was amiable, lovable, but since meeting Joan he had not exhibited any strength of character.†
Chpt 1
- He was pale, gray-eyed, intelligent, amiable.†
Chpt 2
- Then this amiable, well-spoken Kells, he was no Western rough—he spoke like an educated man; surely he would not harm her.†
Chpt 2
- Still the man seemed slow, easy, kind, amiable.†
Chpt 2
- His voice, his manner, the amiable smile on his intelligent face, they all appeared to come from sincerity.†
Chpt 3
- He seemed to have a preoccupied air that somehow did not fit the amiableness of his face.†
Chpt 3 *
- The amiability of his face seemed to have stiffened.†
Chpt 4
- His face looked amiable again, bright against what seemed a vague and veiled background.†
Chpt 5
- It seemed that his torture, his near approach to death, had robbed his face of ferocity, of ruthlessness, and of that strange amiable expression.†
Chpt 6
- Always the portent was a shadow behind their interest and amiability and jealousy.†
Chpt 8
- Between this amiable contest for Joan's glances and replies, with its possibility of latent good to her, and the dark, lurking, unspoken meaning, such as lay in Gulden's brooding, Joan found another new and sickening torture.†
Chpt 8
- Pearce moved away with an amiable good-night and joined the others at the camp-fire.†
Chpt 8
- A dark young man, dissipated and wild-looking, with years of lawlessness stamped upon his face, was the first to move; and he, with awkward gallantry, but with amiable disposition.†
Chpt 10
- Pearce appeared proud of her work; he tried to joke; he said amiable things.†
Chpt 12
- It had all his old amiability, his cool, easy manner, veiling a deep and hidden ruthlessness, terrible in contrast.†
Chpt 16
- When Kells wheeled he was the Kells of her earlier experience—cool, easy, deadly, with the smile almost amiable, and the strange, pale eyes.†
Chpt 19
- He had stolen her—wantonly murdering for the sake of lonely, fruitless hours with her; he had loved her—and he had changed; he had gambled away her soul and life—a last and terrible proof of the evil power of gold; and in the end he had saved her—he had gone from her white, radiant, cool, with strange, pale eyes and his amiable, mocking smile, and all the ruthless force of his life had expended itself in one last magnificent stand.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(amiable) friendly, agreeable, and likable