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Marshall was quite agreeable and for 10 minutes we discussed common places.
The best wine vinegar may be made from either white or red wine, the latter having an agreeable mellow taste.
While the companies were agreeable to continuing the program, they wanted to retain the reels of magnetic tape.
Members of the family say the eel is an agreeable house pet, that eats twice a day and is fond of strips of raw chicken or fish.
However, last-borns perceived themselves as more agreeable, conscientious and open to experience than their siblings perceived them.
I am rewarded by her laughter which, as you can imagine, is an agreeable sound to male ears.
In spite of his brush with big city anomie, he's a survivor, someone who tries to find the good in every situation and strives to be agreeable.
Let us note, first of all, that hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language not only most agreeable to it but also most necessary.
This was a very agreeable crisp, dry wine which could stand its own against an equivalent French, Italian or New World offering.
Even the meanest brand of rotgut can be made agreeable with enough ice and water.
We'd been promising each other dinner for some months, and finally found a date that was mutually agreeable.
So Cubbie sounds agreeable to the plan, but does that mean they are just going to pump more from the artesian basin to compensate?
The former bears a trine aspect to Leo, the sign of the Sun, the latter bears the same agreeable relationship to Cancer, the sign of the Moon.
That the islands are still an agreeable place to live is not in doubt, despite US claims that resettlement is unfeasible.
So we were hopeful that we would be able to come to mutually agreeable arrangements.
This versatile, agreeable breed can go to ground, bolt a fox or tackle and dispatch other small vermin, working alone or in a pack.
We hope we can be agreeable and not ever become disagreeable in talking about doctrinal matters.
Boom was just a teddy bear, a little worn around the ears, soft and agreeable to hold.
The former is an agreeable and clever portrait that domesticates and sweetens its subject's subversiveness.
Components of the agreeable personality include trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness.
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I interpret the distribution as a mutually agreeable division of the chattels in question.
She was not a very agreeable woman, and sitting on the boat train from London for the last few hours had not helped her mood at all.
She will also turn her attention to Irish ducks, which presumably quack with an agreeable brogue.
I am sure many will miss his loyal friendship, tireless industry and agreeable manner towards all he met.
The latter, however, are very agreeable and good for making pickled or bloated herring.
I experience things as beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable.
She knew that her mother on a full stomach was much more agreeable than her mother unfed.
The Dijon mustard was the predominant taste from the panini and, while its pungent taste is not for all palates, I found it agreeable.
Eden was a capable man of business and an agreeable companion but acquired a reputation for self-seeking.
In almost anyone else's mouth those words would have been a put-down remark of a not very agreeable kind.
George Fair was, above all, a gentleman with a pleasant and agreeable nature.
Its flesh is crisp and slightly granular, with a strong aroma and a sharp but agreeable flavour.
Only fair weather and a buggy could tempt me, and, if a little food was involved, I think I could find a round of golf quite agreeable.
He seemed agreeable enough, and there is something of the deadly nightshade about him.
His warmth and his interest in his friends and students made him the most agreeable of companions.
Josephine had to admit that the place, although dressed in a more Southwestern style, was quite agreeable.
I was going to make the point that Churchill's heroism was not dependent on his being a particularly pleasant or agreeable man.
Since the ink incident she hasn't gone anywhere near me, and I find that quite an agreeable situation.
His versatility makes him an agreeable companion but owning one is not for the novice dog owner.
Andy Gill kept his guitar chilly, without the blanket of fuzz provided by effects pedals and the agreeable tone of valve amps.
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Still, Boomerang Shoes is an utterly agreeable collection of folkish pop songs, one that warrants keeping an eye out for future endeavors.
Whether you plan on keeping or selling the foal, breed for a horse with an agreeable character.
Various men would approach Julius and I, usually interrogating us with questions of our commitment and how agreeable Julius truly was.
And if the developers have done that, they're hardly going to be agreeable to contributing further to public amenities.
We are agreeable to do so in the future but this will be a private meeting and not a meeting of the Council.
He was also told that the boy, who was not present for the case, was agreeable to the placement and his parents were pleased with the plan.
It is instructive, for example, to visit a Vietnamese city, and experience how agreeable it is.
The woman smiles, quite pleased by his agreeable tone, but then she frowns and squints at him under the street lamp.
These were not only a pleasure to look down upon from a bedroom window but sent up clouds of agreeable smells to mitigate the fetid interiors.
Order, grand airy galleries, changing volumes and quantities of natural light together create an infinitely more agreeable experience.
And, the applicant must find the protocol appropriate, fair, agreeable, and adequate to prove their claim.
He is agreeable to a degree of cooperation, and I would go fairly far to cooperate.
Council seemed reluctant to implement most of the requests without further study, though some seemed agreeable to the 2003 tax-freeze idea.
But this is a highly agreeable book, saved by Shelby Hearon's command of irony and idiom from the cliches of sentimental romance.
Local groups would be very agreeable to meet with the council to discuss the matter.
It all comes back to the validity of local knowledge teamed with a qualified person agreeable to us.
These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
He thought that using it for transit or for poverty-reduction would probably be agreeable to his government.
All complaints are lodged with Father Athanasius, who has to find a solution mutually agreeable to both parties.
The pedals and gear lever are ideally placed, adding to the agreeable feeling of a design thoroughly researched and carefully implemented.
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It will take planning, but the trick is to work something out that's agreeable to both families, Meantime, you guys can talk anytime you want!
Dr. Lanou suggests eating sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, carrots and other vegetables that are agreeable to almost everyone.
The new model's road manners are more than agreeable, with light steering, a slick gearbox and a good ride.
Jackie suggested to parents that the teenager might come up with suitable punishments for themselves that are agreeable to both parties.
Without going into specifics, I've noticed that some writers, and even some bloggers, can be reasonable and agreeable on non-spiritual matters.
Why wouldn't they accept right now a middle person whose decision is final, an arbitrator agreeable to both sides?
What this misses is the fact that he was also genial and unstuffy, with a capacity to make himself agreeable.
He insists that the city is continuing to work with county officials in hopes of coming to a solution that is agreeable to everyone.
It was a clean-cut, agreeable dish albeit a touch bland for more adventurous palates.
Eventually he found an agreeable home in the University of Utah where his inventive genius could work unhindered.
And administrators are professors too, with classes unscheduled, unrehearsed, tutoring available at all times, and very agreeable office hours.
The displaced families are agreeable to the idea of resettlement provided their basic demands, of cultivable land and community relocation, are met.
But you could afford to drift to the left of your readership as long as you maintained an agreeable tone about it.
It is a high-dollar, mutually agreeable tango, benefitting the network and the players, just like the James special.
The morning was thus quite agreeable, and the conscientious ice cream vendor would have been out hitting the streets and taking advantage of those fair-weather revelers.
He was a consummate horseman, an agreeable companion, a hospitable host.
What ever dressing was on those greens of yours is quite agreeable.
He just seems so nice and kind and agreeable, no matter what he's saying.
It's about the heart of doing movies, and not just making movies, but like there's something fundamental about it, not something pleasurable or agreeable.
The Councillor then added the business people of the town would not be agreeable to the on-street parking charges if long term parking was not provided.
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It is understood the local authority is agreeable to the proposal but will have to receive funding for the ancillary road works which the project will require.
The Councillor was agreeable to an adjournment on the proviso the meeting would be held in public and only about proposed new development charges.
If China is agreeable to this, security cooperation among the United States, Japan, and South Korea could proceed in tandem with China's cooperation.
The cook, who was not only well versed with family recipes and personal favourites, but also agreeable to being the sole, general body at hand for all contingencies!
Torre indicated that Brown would be agreeable to pitching in relief.
Should a professor choose to reject the study or insist on changes not agreeable to the sponsor, another university scientist will very likely be more solicitous.
If for some reason the item has to be exchanged but you don't like anything I am selling at that moment, I may give you a store credit if this is agreeable to both of us.
Tracey and Steve were hoping that couples therapy would help them move on in a direction that was mutually agreeable and satisfying to both of them.
In such circumstances they agreed that they would raise an appropriate purchase order for them to work directly for Canary Wharf if that was an agreeable way forward.
Compromises and concessions need to be reached on both sides, so that whatever choices are made about family and career are mutually acceptable and agreeable.
He added that the government was not obliged to coordinate every single one of its actions with the agency but to work out a package of measures agreeable to the fund.
The agreeable garlicky, parsley-flecked lamb and pork albondigas were let down by a sharp tomato sauce, dominated by dried herbs, possibly oregano.
For that paternal love he hath for and towards the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the Articles of the Kirk of Scotland in the Presbyterian Faith.
A delightful fusion of zouk, reggae, Afro-Beat and salsa, the multi-cultural personnel of the Bristol-based six-piece band, provide the ingredients to a very agreeable recipe.
She continues to grow beyond her billing as a singer of jazz standards, but even more striking is the agreeable roughness of this selected rough mix.
The topography is agreeable to hiking and walking safaris are allowed.
Together with salt, it gives both the name and the relish to sallets from the sapidity, which renders not plants and herbs only, but men themselves pleasant and agreeable.
Up to a certain distance the water is tame because of barriers or reefs, which makes it agreeable to the average beachgoer, especially those with children.
And Kendrick, oozing charm, turns a prolonged cameo into a very agreeable supporting turn.
One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion.
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Originally, in the 17th century, the sugar syrup was made with barley water, an infusion of boiled barley which gave it an agreeable, mild flavour.
They think that they can make themselves as agreeable to the men as their successful rivals, by adopting the same style and allowing the same freedom of conversation.
The downstairs bar specialises in spirits from around the world, while in the Cigar du Vin the air is permeated with the agreeable fug of good cigars.
It's an awkward epilogue to an otherwise agreeable piece of fluff.
It's a sociable port, with jaunty coconut palms lining its brassy waterfront, an agreeable jumble of architectural styles, and a very lived-in sense of its own history.
That is, prices start at the highest point, usually a guilder per stem, and fall until a buyer finds an agreeable price.
Instinctively cinema proprietors had recourse to music, and it was the right way, using an agreeable sound to neutralize one less agreeable.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Protected from excessive summer heat by river breezes and a canopy of oak trees, the house was an agreeable place to live in.
I was so eager to make their bedclothes agreeable and nice, I am afraid I was a bit loose-handed with the starch bottle.
The jukebox plays a medley of sixties tunes, an apt and agreeable feature.
Instead, the Deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed, which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time.
And this demands an answerably 'inhuman' compassion, which is far from agreeable.
Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
He is well received everywhere for his manners are good and agreeable.
He had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling.
That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
She seems most comfortable on the fulsome Griffes songs, though not all listeners will find her full-throated approach agreeable.
They went down the list until they found a judge agreeable to both parties, or if none could be found they had to take the last one on the list.
There is an agreeable freehandedness in the lines of the Pennsylvania table of unusual design at upper right.
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To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
She was very agreeable and managed to talk on a most wonderful number of subjects, considering the limited time.
At a lady's most agreeable conversaziones I first met the late William Blake, the artist, to whom she and Mr Flazman had been truly kind.
At the time of the arrival of the foreign merchants, it afforded a more splendid and agreeable scene than any city in the East.
Without a mutually agreeable successor, the highest Communist Party officials initially opted to rule the Soviet Union jointly through a troika.
One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent.
This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles.
These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
This seems pernickety but it is very agreeable to have the nicely browned sausages in the final dish, as opposed to the discoloured and largely tasteless boiled sausages.
Assimilators usually show a higher degree of anxiety than those preferring Integration, but they are also agreeable, friendly, and not aggressive.
Different Angle is a grubby, neurotic, more agreeable cousin of The Killers' Mr Brightside, while Burning For No One is an off-kilter kiss-off to an old love.
I admire that admiration which the genteel world sometimes extends to the commonalty. There is no more agreeable object in life than to see Mayfair folks condescending.
Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
Her style in this respect is agreeable from a narrational point of view.
It has some funny gags, it moves along at an agreeable clip, and as the night in question stumbles toward pass-out time, the camerawork gets appropriately sloppier.
If we are entering an era where streets are paved with shattered plate glass, shopsoiled Louis Vuitton and agreeable, looted Chardonnay bottles it is as well to be prepared.
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Whether it would be more agreeable to edmund than the army, remained to be seen.
He was an innocent poor man that wouldnt harm a child, besides being pleasant and agreeable as EER a one youd meet.
I was offered a young lion yesterday, but I hardly think it would be an agreeable addition to the household at esher.
Aside from his Negrophobia, the southern gentleman is an agreeable companion.
That told him, before the brigadier general spoke again, that he was agreeable to the audio-visual appearance and statement.
It was therefore agreeable to find one of the Mystery detractors actually named backbiter.
I'm come back, Mrs. Williams 'oping you might 'ave that same room me and my friend might use if it's agreeable.
It was voted by acclamation, that Hippopotamus was agreeable to the company.
In this place we are called upon to consider, whether it be more agreeable to have Latin or the ferula at our fingers ends.
It has a very agreeable aromatic odor, somewhat like camphor, and the taste is described as warm, bitterish and camphoraceous.
This produced a universal tremor in the mollah, and I must own that it communicated itself to me in no agreeable manner.
The fowles were agreeable hosts and the Georgian cottage was the scene of many gay gatherings and fine dinners.
The caprylate of ethyl, erroneously termed caprylic ether, is a colourless liquid, with an agreeable odour of pine-apples.
I have not yet come across his Drunkard's prospective, but it should be agreeable.
This agaric exhales an agreeable odour, combined apparently of the scent of the vanilla and the truffle.
Thus he reconciles me to the harmony of the universe, and makes all things easy and agreeable.
You cannot misconceive my motives in making this not very agreeable communication.
The hearth of this agreeable and grandmotherly chamber was attractive with dogs, the silver cage beside it with green love-birds.
She was amicable, conversable, all that was agreeable as a woman, and she was the chillest of wives.
The party to see the basilisk was not only the most agreeable of the season, but the most agreeable ever known.
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He found the city of chalk and shingles not quite so agreeable as last year.
Not the least agreeable feature about the creature was that it was hideously lifelike.
She made herself very agreeable to the Archdeacon, who unbended very much, and grew very nice, as Mrs Chiley herself allowed.
I never saw such an ill-behaved brute, yet he intended to be most agreeable.
This was an agreeable change after all our close-hauled tacking in the Channel.
These are tuberous and 40 when boiled form a wholesome and nutritious food of rather agreeable flavor.
The indirect object of money-making is also the increase of the agreeable feelings.
Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented.
They form an agreeable contrast to the chaos of oppressive learning of the time, and have an insinuative air about them.
The coleus, as a window plant, affords fine color effects, but the plant is too tender to be agreeable for house-culture.
The only things which make intimacy with a woman agreeable are difficulty and intermittency.
This cardinal is an agreeable imp, and I must give him a kiss for his complaisance.
What can her husband be about, and what an intoxicatingly agreeable task to wake her up!
These trains are swifter and more agreeable for nomads than the camel of the desert or the Conestoga wagon of the prairie.
His own flock, well washed and kempt, were much more agreeable subjects of contemplation.
He knew he was honest himself, and did not once suspect that the agreeable young man was playing the confidence game upon him.
If kept till they are soft, in the same way as medlars, they have an agreeable acid flavour.
Charlie had planned how people should sit, and Mr. Landini was on one side of me, and he was making himself terribly agreeable.
It seemed far more agreeable to a German to partake of the national sacrament out in a beer garden.
The vines are trailed on trelliswork, and form agreeable avenues in the gardens of Cairo.
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Personally he possesses charming, agreeable manners and Chesterfieldan courteousness, which vastly contributes to his popularity.
So anything that tends to liberalize the family, to exorcise the ghost of the old patriarch, is agreeable.
The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
Lemon-juice is sometimes an agreeable application, as in some other varieties of stomatitis.
This interpretation is not only deducible in a very obvious manner from the fable itself, but is likewise agreeable to experience.
In my opinion, there are no fatigues in the exercises but what are more easy and more agreeable.
On the Malabar Coast it is manufactured into candles, which burn with a clear light and an agreeable fragrance.
Girvan is the name of the river that suits the idea of the stanza best, but Lugar is the most agreeable modulation of syllables.
The climate of Machu Picchu is mild, consequently the use of windows was natural and agreeable.
The sliding down bannisters produces a titillation which is agreeable to the sexual organs.
He has rather too magniloquent a style both of acting and singing, but is a very agreeable artist.
Do thou something that would be agreeable to Mahendra and myself and to thyself also.
This was, however, at present, by no means of an alluringly agreeable character.
It introduces us to some of our most agreeable and stimulative friendships.
And indeed, for a man who has been much tumbled round orcadian skerries, what scene could be more agreeable to witness?
The warmth of the room was very agreeable in contrast to the bleakness of out-doors.
In your way from a dinner to a ball, you stopped to exchange agreeable on dits.
We need hardly say, after this, that those dogrib Indians spent an excited and agreeable evening with the fur-traders.
I do not know whether my readers have ever participated in an agreeable game known as odd man out.
The people of Dunedin felt that they had enjoyed a novel and agreeable show.
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The roasted pili nut alone has a very agreeable almond taste.
Captain fontanel was in the box, and made himself vastly agreeable.
Benzoin and storax are used also on account of their agreeable odour.
Leclerq, Koch, and nacho Amor are all cultivated, agreeable young men.
Benzoin and storax are also used, on account of their agreeable odour.
Stevens is an agreeable writer, and, as is the case with men of talent, his gifts adorn his sterling soundness.
They have a distinctive flavor that is agreeable to most persons.
The gridiron of Saint Lawrence is of an agreeable freshness to him.
An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
And feeling thus I may not have made myself too agreeable to Cleopatra.
However this may be, the impression of ancientry is deep and agreeable.
I replied, that her pleasantry was much more agreeable than her anger.
Besides, they would exchange the whaling news, and have an agreeable chat.
They have a balsamic flavor, accompanied with a very agreeable odor.
The agreeable young barnacle, and Bar, were the talkers of the party.
Nature, while imposing this agreeable duty on the woman, weakens her and disables her for any serious competition with man.
So Meg went down, wearing an injured look, and wasn't at all agreeable at breakfast time.
Madame Boche was evidently trying to make herself agreeable to Gervaise.
Marek was always trying to be agreeable, poor fellow, as if he had it on his mind that he must make up for his deficiencies.
Jurgis expressed himself as agreeable, and the other took him that afternoon to a place where city laborers were being paid off.
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His engagement to Miss carillon had not been an agreeable experience.
The news was anything but agreeable to the Catalonian Lieutenant.
I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name before them, both in English, and in Latine.
That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society.
Go, then, and take the waters of Forges, or any that may be more agreeable to you, and recuperate yourself as quickly as possible.
Yet Delsarte was as agreeable a teacher as he was a marvelous artist.
They found her person agreeable and her deportment dignified.
In general, the Ambrymese are more agreeable than the santo people.
The diminuendo of his footsteps was agreeable to Doggies ear.
This, though not agreeable to the mind, served to distend the body.
It was so agreeable to be on amicable terms with her father's executor.
The heat, the exhalations, and the audience were not the most agreeable.
The savor of success had always been highly agreeable to him, and it had been his fortune to know it often.
The kernel has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
In her fluted voice, with her agreeable smile, Mrs. Austen greeted him.
When a young man is marriageable he ought to take every means to make himself agreeable.
Dined at Gaskell's and met Pearson, a clever and agreeable man.
It is entirely agreeable to me, and I am obliged to you for mentioning the surgeons, for I am afraid I should not have thought of them.
His Grace began to think the Baron as good-hearted as agreeable.
A bit of green pepper or of chopped pimento is an agreeable addition.
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I shuddered to be near him, and thought on the servant's ill-bred moroseness as comparatively agreeable.
Ben Weatherstaff began to feel soothed into a sort of dream which was quite agreeable.
He found this easy, since she turned out to be an agreeable chatterbox with an amusing tongue.
That was agreeable, so they chewed it turn about, and dangled their legs against the bench in excess of contentment.
All who know him declare that they have never met, not even in the Egyptian museum at Turin, so agreeable a mummy.
The words were not more agreeable to me than they had been to Josephine.
In a strong and rather agreeable voice, cracked and coarsened by street singing, she sang in hope of getting a copper from the shop.
There was a tranquil air in the town after the turbulence of the Channel and the beach, and its dulness in that comparison was agreeable.
He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast.
In this agreeable frame of mind I entered the workhouse of Liverpool.
It certainly was agreeable to fare sumptuously, drive in a fine carriage, wear her best frock every day, and do nothing but enjoy herself.
Who was ever more agreeable and lovable than Malbone last night?
The company must be very agreeable which can make time slide away so very deceitfully.
I do not know if the result will be as agreeable as you describe, but the thing does not appear to me as palatable as you say.
It was an agreeable school for the youthful minds of Vittoria and Pescara.
John Knightley seemed early to devote himself to the business of being agreeable.
Moreover, he was cultivated and well-read, and his society was agreeable.
Scott was a lively, pretty girl, with nothing to do but be agreeable, and she performed her mission most successfully.
For this reason especially she perused the first half of the letter with an agreeable sense of relief.
It must be very agreeable for her to be settled within so easy a distance of her own family and friends.
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To many this mixture is more agreeable than pease pudding alone.
Having an agreeable odour, it is sometimes used in perfumery.
This is not a fine style, but simple, perspicuous, and agreeable.
There was a remarkably agreeable smell of pomatum in this congregation.
When she meant to be entertaining and agreeable, she nodded her head incessantly and snapped her eyes at one.
Bulstrode, appeared to have found an agreeable resort in this certainly not erudite household.
The regimen I had to undergo on this occasion was far from agreeable.
My mother said, 'What a remarkably agreeable young man he is!
To see that which no one else has seen, and to own that which no one else can own, are equally agreeable, and delightfully exclusive.
Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable.
Her tone and look implied something that was not agreeable to me in connexion with the subject.
There is an agreeable turn artfully given them in the relating, that naturally instructs the reader, either one way or other.
This good flunkey, in spite of his conscientious scruples, really could not resist continuing such a very genteel and agreeable conversation.
These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.
Even Bully Pigeon was sufferable, if he was not altogether agreeable.
The verses were very lucid and melodious, and the subject agreeable.
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
If agreeable to you, your chief surgeons and ours shall proceed to the field in the same carriage as is customary.
For my part, I think they are vastly agreeable, provided they dress smart and behave civil.
And the atmosphere they created was reposeful and agreeable.
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But I must be more in want of a friend, or an agreeable companion, than I have yet been, to take the trouble of conquering any body's reserve to procure one.
He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine.
I amuse myself by paying a few compliments to a schoolgirl for whom I do not care two straws more than for any agreeable and passably clever woman I meet.
He would need more men, and if it were agreeable to everyone he would engage Ambrosch for the reaping and threshing, as the Shimerdas had no small grain of their own.
The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and agreeable.
My uncle was rather disappointed, gentlemen, for he thought a little quiet bit of love-making would be agreeable after the slaughtering, if it were only to change the subject.
When a man rides an amiable hobby that shies at nothing and kicks nobody, it is only agreeable to find him riding it with a humorous sense of the droll side of the creature.
There was the occasional sound of music, of mandolins, sufficiently removed to be an agreeable accompaniment rather than an interruption to the conversation.
He recognized the agreeable, philosophizing voice with pleasure.
In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who did not show their kindness by finding fault.
It is a pity, nevertheless, that Newman had not been a physiognomist, for a great many of the faces were irregularly agreeable, expressive, and suggestive.
His perception of the striking improvement of Harriet's manner, since her introduction at Hartfield, was not one of the least agreeable proofs of his growing attachment.
Merriman's laugh at this sally was such a genuine outburst and so contagious that it started the dinner with an agreeable swing that never slackened.
He is lively, and seems clever, and when I have inspired him with greater respect for me than his sister's kind offices have implanted, he may be an agreeable flirt.
Having paid for his entertainment with this agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hangdog silence until there was no more India ale left, when he said, 'Well, Mrs.
They will not be worrying about the political whys and wherefores that suddenly and unexpectedly brought this international impasse to such an agreeable conclusion.
Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him.
Granet was making himself very agreeable indeed to Isabel Worth.
The other children had ridden me about for nearly two hours, and then the boys thought it was their turn, and so it was, and I was quite agreeable.
Little Rollebuck was constantly with him, his right hand man and adviser, and instead of making his will assisted in the more agreeable task of making his fortune.
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But she believed she was accomplishing one of the social duties enjoined by religion, which orders us to make ourselves agreeable to our neighbor.
It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right.
Nevertheless, he observed with pleasure that Miss Brooke showed an ardent submissive affection which promised to fulfil his most agreeable previsions of marriage.
