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friendly and good-natured
- Jimmy had four brothers and three sisters, some of them occupied mysteriously, but all were genial and glad-handing, even the married elder daughters and the middle-aged sons.Chapter 3 (70% in)
- Fat and pale, with an intelligent Circassian bow to her eyes, very humane, overreconciled to a bad lot, taking it for granted that she was too fat to get a husband and forgiving her married sisters and mobile brothers their better luck, she had a genial cry, almost male and fraternal.Chapter 3 (85% in)
- And the candles were now as genial to me as though they had been the ones stuck into loaves of bread by night and sailed on a black Indian lake to find the drowned body sunk to the bottom.Chapter 10 (16% in)
- "But I was saying"—he gave me a genial smile with heart-felt squint and then he yawned and enjoyed the golden light—"how a guy struggles with malice.Chapter 24 (29% in)
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