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Sentences starting with agreeable

Agreeable people he could find at home, if his only object was to pass the time. [4]

Sentences ending with agreeable

Are the people who, by reason of a competence or other accidents of good-fortune, have most leisure, becoming more agreeable? [4]
Those were hypocrites who criticised him; those were envious who disparaged him; the sufficient ethics of the world she lived in was to be successful and be agreeable. [4]
But all England was in a conspiracy to do everything possible to make my visit agreeable. [6]
He dined with us twice during his short stay, and was most delightful and agreeable. [6]
The world is truly what you make it, and Henderson was determined to make it agreeable. [4]
Came down yesterday to try to earn some money," he continued, cheerfully making himself agreeable. [9]
She had nothing to say about Clement, except that she had met him at a party in the city, and found him agreeable. [6]
One who seeks to drag what is dearest from the river does not consider whether the cold bath is agreeable. [10]
One can walk the track, but to ride a horse over its sleepers and culverts and occasional bridges, and dodge the trains, is neither safe nor agreeable. [4]
Of all voyages, that is the easiest to make which has no port in view, that depends upon the varying winds, if the winds happen to be soft and the chance harbors agreeable. [4]

Short sentences using agreeable

A very agreeable man. [5]

Sentences containing agreeable two or more times

The resident diplomats, I have heard, say that they find society there more agreeable than at any other capital--at least those who have the qualities to make themselves agreeable independent of their rank. [4]

More example sentences with the word agreeable in them

How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
All that might yet be lacking to the fitting of the restored palace Hadrian himself wished to select and procure and in this occupation so agreeable to his tastes, Gabinius, the curiosity-dealer, was to lend him a helping hand. [10]
Waiting, in silence, would have been agreeable enough, for I was full of matter for reflection, and wanted to give it a chance to work. [5]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
In short, it would be much more agreeable if it extended to its own members something of the consideration and sympathy that it gives to those it regards as its inferiors. [4]
Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
I became acquainted with Monsieur Bihin, le plus bel homme du monde, and one of the biggest, a great many years ago, and have kept up my agreeable relations with him ever since. [6]
I'll go home with Fran Van Hout and come again tomorrow, if agreeable to you. [10]
The paddles dropped with agreeable precision, and no boatswain's rattan was needed to keep my fellows to their task. [11]
Mr. Judd, who will hand you this, is authorized to receive your answer; and, if agreeable to you, to enter into the terms of such arrangement. [7]
I think it will be more agreeable to Sarah's feelings, when she comes to hear from me of the honour you have done her, if she learns it was in liquor rather cooler than the last, Sir. [12]
When the Regent, who had been a friend of her late husband, removed into the palace of the Pharaohs, he made her advances, and the clever and decided woman knew how to make herself at first agreeable, and finally indispensable, to the vacillating man. [10]
The way in which she understood how to discover and bring out the best qualities of every visitor rendered her a very agreeable hostess. [10]
We started out, when we turned our backs on the Old World, with the declaration that all men are free, and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of an agreeable climate. [4]
The early proceedings were cordial, for the Governor and his suite made themselves agreeable, and talk flowed amiably. [11]
What these were we need not stop to mention,--only remarking that there were dresses of various patterns, which might afford an agreeable series of changes, and in certain contingencies prove eminently useful. [6]
So after that we had all the talk we wanted; and we wanted a good deal, for they were agreeable people. [5]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
Mr. King, who was put in good humor by falling on his feet, as it were, in such agreeable company, amused himself by studying the guests as they entered. [4]
That the position was one which was in many respects most agreeable to him cannot be doubted. [6]
In this particular volume what interested me most, perhaps, was the very spirited and intelligent account of the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius, but it gave me an hour's mighty agreeable reading. [6]
These explorations and visits gave him material for future use, and exercised his pen in agreeable correspondence; but his tendency at this time, and for several years afterwards, was to the idle life of a man of society. [4]
Another day we visited Stafford House, where Lord Ronald Gower, himself an artist, did the honors of the house, showing us the pictures and sculptures, his own included, in a very obliging and agreeable way. [6]
It seems a very strange proceeding for such an agreeable and polite man as the Vicomte, although he had his drawbacks, as all Continentals have. [9]
The bath is very agreeable, the tepid water being singularly soft and pleasant. [4]
It would be very agreeable for me thus to meet my old friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from here so long as a visit there would require. [7]
One of my very agreeable experiences was a call from a gentleman with whom I had corresponded, but whom I had never met. [6]
It is a very agreeable climb up Newport, and not difficult; but if the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaff. [4]
He made himself very agreeable by abundant details concerning the religious, political, social, commercial, and educational progress of the South American cities and states. [6]
They cannot obtrude upon the solitary moments when one is to himself the most agreeable of companions. [6]
It "stirred him up," but in an agreeable way; for, as he said, he meant to devote himself to family practice, and not to adopt any limited class of cases as a specialty. [6]
Belle Treherne, who up to that moment had never quite liked her, yielded to the agreeable charm of her conversation and her frank applausive remarks upon the costumes of the dancers. [11]
The young gentleman touched his cap politely, for though the woman was not fashionably dressed, she was distinguished in appearance, with an air of remoteness which gave her a kind of agreeable mystery. [11]
It is agreeable to the traveler to see that the provincials disport themselves within bounds, and that an hilarious spree here does not differ much in its exercises from a prayer-meeting elsewhere. [4]
As I owe to the Magian an agreeable hour, so I thank you, my friends, for a happy one. [10]
I wish you to stay or come just as is most agreeable to yourself. [7]
The best way to set the matter right and make everything pleasant and agreeable all around will be to print in this place a description of the shrine as it appeared to a recent visitor, Mr. Frederick W. Peabody, of Boston. [5]
As a relief to monotony it may be now and then allowed,--may even have an agreeable effect in breaking the monotony of too formal verse. [6]
We will try to make our country agreeable, and, as your friend, I counsel you to treat Boges whom I sent as my forerunner, in a kind and friendly manner. [10]
Bob had dared to hope for such an opportunity: had made up his mind during supper, while striving to be agreeable, just what he would do if the opportunity came. [9]
I am obliged to confess that he has shown occasional marks of inattention even while the Master was discoursing in a way that I found agreeable enough. [6]
At any rate, those nations that have the most of it are the most prosperous, and those people who have the most of it are the most agreeable to associate with. [4]
She had attributed this latter partly to jealousy of her, for no one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. [5]
All the morning there were "inspections" to be attended, and nowhere could there be seen a more agreeable mingling of war and love than the spacious, tree-planted interior of the fort presented on such occasions. [4]
He hoped that there was no offence,--thought it might have been mutooally agreeable, conclooded he would give up the idee of a colation, and backed himself out as if unwilling to expose the less guarded aspect of his person to the risk of accelerating impulses. [6]
I confess that there is something agreeable to me in renewing my relations with the reading public. [6]
To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark except to Pierre and Helene, whose presence he seemed not to notice. [2]
In the evening the welcome guest was to be entertained by music and, if agreeable to Barbara, by singing also. [10]
But that evening the spacious hotel, luxurious, perfectly warmed, and well lighted, crowded with an agreeable if not a brilliant company--for Mr. King noted the fact that none of the gentlemen dressed for dinner--seemed all the more pleasant for the contrast with the weather outside. [4]
It means, in the second place, that this shall be an agreeable country to live in, by reason of its impartial laws, social amenities, and a fair chance to enjoy the gifts of nature and Providence. [4]
I had seen the said sister some three years before, thought her intelligent and agreeable, and saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her. [7]
This is not the place to enter upon the politico-social question, but the writer may note one impression gathered from much friendly and agreeable conversation. [4]
The "rapture on the lonely shore" is agreeable only when you know you can at any moment go home. [4]
Rest assured, therefore, that we shall be found always just and paternal in our transactions with your government, and that nothing will be omitted on my part to make your residence in this capital agreeable to yourself and satisfactory to your government. [7]
One would suppose that people set down on this little globe would seek places on it most agreeable to themselves. [4]
Mrs. Young said that if the state of things inside the house was not agreeable to the stranger, he could find room outside. [5]
Karagina had replied that for her part she was agreeable, and everything depend on her daughter's inclination. [2]
It was to take her some time to learn that some of the most agreeable people are those who have succeeded by the most questionable means; and when she came to this knowledge, what would be her power of judgment as to these means? [4]
S----was in great spirits, and played the sparkler with such great success as to silence the whole of us excepting Jim, who was the agreeable rattle of the evening. [4]
People from further South find this an agreeable summering place, and a fair hotel, with odd galleries in front and rear, did not want company. [4]
With respect to sounds, Helmholtz has explained to a certain extent on physiological principles, why harmonies and certain cadences are agreeable. [1]
It was a somewhat novel way of, visiting resorts of this nature; there are those to whom it will seem altogether more agreeable than would be the visiting of them in person. [4]
The fish were so wanting in taste as to disdain the sweet bait, but my early awakened love of sport kept me patiently a long time in the same spot, which was undoubtedly more agreeable to my mother than the bait was to the salmon. [10]
It makes religion so easy and agreeable. [4]
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. [4]
And so the simple confession he meant to make would at length evolve itself logically, and hold by a natural connection to the first agreeable train of thought which he had called up. [6]
Mrs. Benson said she was never so surprised in her life, and the surprise seemed not exactly an agreeable one, but Mr. Benson looked a great deal more pleased than astonished. [4]
The Vice-Consul, Mr. Sewall, in the enforced absence of his principal, Mr. Russell, paid us every attention, and was very agreeable. [6]
Mr. Bernard's companion seemed unconscious that she was the object of this attention, and was listening to the young master as if he had succeeded in making himself very agreeable. [6]
Many men had seemed estimable and agreeable, a few even desirable husbands, but Dion was the first to awaken love in her ardent but by no means passionate soul. [10]
I suspect the secret of it is, that they are agreeable by the hour. [4]
He wrote to say, that, Providence permittin', it would be agreeable to him to take a part in the exercises of the evenin'; but I mistrusted he did n't mean to come. [6]
I grieve to say it, but our people, I think, have not generally agreeable voices. [6]
The fondness of Ruth, which was scarcely disguised, for the company of agreeable young fellows, who talked nothings, gave Alice opportunity for no end of banter. [5]
There is a Russian princess, a fair woman with cool observant eyes, making herself agreeable to a mixed company in three languages. [4]
As a general rule, that society where flattery is acted is much more agreeable than that where it is spoken. [6]
They have no right to spoil what can be the most agreeable social institution that civilization has evolved. [4]
Deeply as Gombert regretted it, he could therefore do nothing to make her residence in Brussels more agreeable. [10]
Serene and agreeable recollections will soon bring you hither again; whereas there would be little joy in returning to a house where the remembrance of hours of weakness, the result of pleasure, would mingle with your future enjoyment. [10]
Ever since I received your very agreeable letter of the 22d of May, I have been intending to write you an answer to it. [7]
He had been received gladly, and had made himself an agreeable figure in the duchy, to the delight of the Duke, who watched his every motion, every word, and their effect. [11]
This is the reason why rich people are apt to be so much more agreeable than others. [6]
But forgetting his purpose or changing his mind before he came close to him, he seized his hand and vowed eternal friendship, declaring with an agreeable frankness that from that time forth they were brothers in everything but personal appearance. [12]
Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with the agreeable intermittent whistle of a shell, flew over people's heads incessantly, but not one fell close by, they all flew over. [2]
The absolute truth probably was that she regretted it, and had moments of sentimental unhappiness; but there is great compensation for such loss in the feeling of freedom to pursue a career that is more and more agreeable. [4]
The impression the princess made on Rostov was a very agreeable one. [2]
It gives me pleasure to assure you of my sincere desire to do what I can to render now your sojourn in the United States agreeable to yourself, satisfactory to your sovereign, and beneficial to the Hawaiian people. [7]
A day in Philadelphia left a very agreeable impression of the outside of that great city, which has endeared itself so much of late to all the country by its most noble and generous care of our soldiers. [6]
What made a person desired in any company was the talent of being agreeable, talent of some sort, not the ability to give a costly dinner or a big ball. [4]
This habit of pensioning officials, as well as musicians and poets, is very agreeable to the Germans. [4]
Under almost any other circumstances, her father would have been unwilling to take a young fellow of whom he knew so little under his roof; but this was his nephew, and anything that seemed like to amuse or please Elsie was agreeable to him. [6]
She was not only handsome and amiable and agreeable, but there was a cordial frankness, an openhearted sincerity about her which made her seem like a sister to those who could help becoming her lovers. [6]
He is just one of those characters who would be more agreeable on the stage than in private life. [4]
It is roomy on top, there is space to move about without too great fatigue, and one might pleasantly spend a season there, if he had agreeable company and natural tastes. [4]
Helmholtz has explained on physiological principles why concords are agreeable, and discords disagreeable to the human ear; but we are little concerned with these, as music in harmony is a late invention. [1]
I was glad of this, for I found that he was an agreeable man, and had distinct originality of ideas, besides being possessed of very considerable culture. [11]
At one end of the table sat Longfellow, florid, quiet, benignant, soft-voiced, a most agreeable rather than a brilliant talker, but a man upon whom it was always pleasant to look,--whose silence was better than many another man's conversation. [6]
By the invitation of our host he came in to visit us in the evening, and made himself very welcome by his agreeable conversation. [6]
O ye belles of Newport and of Bar Harbor, in your correct and conventional agreement of what is proper and agreeable, are you wasting your sweet lives by rule? [4]

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