How To Use Amia In A Sentence

  • Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
  • Whether Mr. Johnson was speaking metaphorically or just plain sillily, the fact he was expressing concern over adding many US military personnel to a small island displays concern for the overall impact on the Guamites … Guamians … Guamicans, hell just what does one call a resident of Guam? Think Progress » Rep. Johnson worries that the island of Guam will ‘tip over and capsize’ if U.S. troops relocate there.
  • Nearby attractions: Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation, Hilo.
  • Saxby Bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like tea trees, macadamias, wine and even online lingerie.
  • an amiable gathering
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  • It does not call up the beast, and if it did it would not matter much, as a rule; the beast is a harmless and rather amiable creature, as anybody can see by watching cattle. Food and Drink
  • Damian Harris knows about the potential power of a good promo video.
  • He's an amiable man in a striped shirt who talks with infectious vim about science. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
  • He was joined by elegant Italian lutenist Andrea Damiani in contrapuntal pieces by Vincenzo Galilei.
  • Damian's room was directly next to hers, and Rachel looked ahead to the next three nights with fear and excitement.
  • I’ve also read mesopotamian myths that have survived including the Avesta from the Zoroastrians which serves as a foundation of Judaism combined of course with the cult of Amun (the egyptian cult of the one god). Think Progress » As New Orleans Drowned, Chertoff Was Focused On Avian Flu and Immigration
  • Leinweber discusses the development of beliefs about sorcerers and female vampires (lamiae) in Greek and Roman texts through Apuleius and shows how they prefigured modern witchcraft and vampire legends.
  • Babylonia, a part of Lower Mesopotamia, 7; excessive flatness of, 9; later name for "Shumir and Accad" and for "Chaldea," 237. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • Seasoned with French sea salt, cold-pressed Swedish rapeseed oil and ground macadamia nuts, the cheese had a creaminess that seemed to sweeten its otherwise savory quality. Young Stars of Swedish Cuisine
  • The science and engineering master was always amiable.
  • At this time we could hear and see the German half-track vehicles entering Lamia, thus effectively cutting off our retreat in that direction even if we had transport. Alan Glass
  • Now this amiable Bostonian is ready to pack on some serious size to do damage at the next level.
  • Water sports, including sailing, windsurfing, and fishing, are popular with Bahamians and tourists alike.
  • Macadamia nut oil contains about 80% of monounsaturated fatty acids and a higher percentage of Palmitoleic acid than any other vegetable oils.
  • His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • Haywood will not surrender her role as moral arbitress to Amiana.
  • Scoop in piles of cashews, almonds, macadamias, walnuts, pumpkin seeds or whatever you please.
  • But he went on going to see them, as though he did not notice their unamiability. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
  • Love is a terrible thing -- quite different from amiability, which is sometimes confused with it. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
  • Unsprezece persoane au decedat într-un accident aviatic petrecut luni după-amiază pe ZF - Banci si Asigurari
  • Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
  • When he found that it was for people of consequence in a private room that the articles were required, he set to work with a will and produced a polish "that would have struck envy to the soul of _the amiable Mr. Warren_, _for they used Day and Martin's at the_ '_White Pickwickian Studies
  • Sara, while remaining outwardly amiable toward all concerned, was inwardly furious.
  • The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
  • Macadamia nut oil contains about 80% of monounsaturated fatty acids and a higher percentage of Palmitoleic acid than any other vegetable oils.
  • Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • Despite his life going downhill, he was still described by people who knew him as a gentle, placid, easy-going, amiable man.
  • Anyway, I found Andrea to be a perfectly amiable person, but that was not a universal view.
  • amiable and unassuming," and though one of the first, if not the first lady at Vienna, as not at all partaking of the insolence and hauteur which is by some ascribed to the society of that capital. The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
  • The ground was rocky and Damian quickly scrambled over to Thera.
  • Perhaps he was too amiable, too diffident and conciliatory in his approach. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Place macadamias on a baking tray and roast until light golden for about 8 minutes.
  • Ever since, we have circled each other amiably, two playwrights on similar trajectories.
  • But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
  • It was a lamebrain excuse on behalf of the Bahamian government to try to cut down on expenditure.
  • The literature of ancient Egypt was written on rolls of papyrus, that of ancient Mesopotamia on clay tablets, that of ancient China on strips of bamboo held together with string, and so forth.
  • In this recipe I have used a mixture of pecans and macadamia as I like the contrast of texture and flavour.
  • She spoke amiably, yet with the least hint of dismissal in her voice.
  • No other individual currently on our screens and in our tabloids can solicit such violent hatred from my otherwise amiable self.
  • Most of the time, however, the two rivals were amiable and pleased with each other's achievements.
  • After encountering Liebling in the New Yorker, those readers understood exactly why he, with irrefutable, amiable logic, regarded the press as "the weak slat under the bed of democracy. Five Best: Ink-Stained Riches
  • Somewhere, a mile ahead in the dust and scrub, Bapa, Aurangzeb, and Roshan would have halted also to pitch tents, light cooking fires, set up shamiana awnings to keep them cool. Shadow Princess
  • The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
  • Palawan (along with the Calamianes and the island of Mindoro) was rifted (below water) from the Asian mainland approximately 32 million years ago, transported through seafloor spreading across the growing South China Sea, added to the growing Philippine Archipelago approximately 17 million years ago, and uplifted above water approximately 5-10 million years ago. Palawan rain forests
  • Felix got him interested in macadamias, and Chris has been to Australia to collect breeding material.
  • The hospital charity could have found no celebrity more amiable to aid their appeal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of Damian's rhetorical skills and his knowledge of Canon Law, the Pope used him as his legate on several occasions.
  • Research is continuing, but it poses the question, do we have here a unique glazed stone item, reminiscent of the glazed steatite of 5th millennium Mesopotamia?
  • More still needed to be done to diversify into crops such as smallcrops, olives, macadamias and hemp.
  • Michel Bouquet delivers a revelatory, award-worthy performance as the amiable and mysterious French president.
  • I was so embarrassed that I had to buy those macadamias by way of apology.
  • His disarming amiability and jocular charm were irresistible, but his art was immediately compelling on its own terms, and largely responsible for fueling all the interest.
  • Again this is a puzzler, because now that they know the name of the Bahamian running it, you think that they could shut it down.
  • woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC
  • But even this melted away: first, under the reflection that if the mysterious fur-merchant wished to remain incognito, he must be extremely provoked with Margaret; (and she rather liked the idea of any body being provoked with Margaret;) and secondly, a further thaw took place on more amiable grounds, when the Duke, laying his hand gently on her arm as she passed from the dining-room, said fondly: Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
  • She was kissing his face amiably as if he were her savior, taking her away from her disappearing world.
  • I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
  • She was a very good looking woman, with an amiable and warm personality, but I didn't know her personally.
  • Champagner-Oper" [ "Champagne Opera."] and in order to justify this title our amiable Intendant proposes to regale the whole theater with a few dozens of champagne in the second act, in order to spirit up the chorus. Letters
  • Damian 'strumming' his fingers on Pam's hip during the opening lineup. EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
  • She couldn't have been more than fifteen, and surely had what schoolgirls called a "pash" for the amiable young man. The Gates Of Sleep
  • As the modern man of fashion, when an exterior compliance with the tonish habits of high life rendered simulation and conformity necessary, he generally acquitted himself in a style that seemed to say he was only in his proper element, and met with his equals alone in the first circles of elegant society; but the real character of this young and amiable man never appeared in its true colouring to such advantage, as, when freed from the trammels situation and circumstances frequently imposed upon it, he found himself at liberty to follow the genuine bent of inclination, which secretly pointed to rational enjoyments, pleasures unaccompanied by the sting of after reproach, and a participation in all the milder and more tranquil virtues to be met with in the less elevated stations of private life. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
  • Over two millennia these Mesopotamian cities developed the art of copper smelting, alloying bronze and, most importantly, writing.
  • With widespread illegal gambling activity, a group of Bahamians want what they call the archaic, undemocratic gaming laws in the country to be changed to afford them the right to gamble in their own country. The Bahama Journal - Bahamas News Headlines
  • is both daffier and more amiable than a Woody Allen film, but the sibling filmmakers Jesse Peretz directed and his sister Evgenia Peretz co-wrote the screenplay have concocted sort of a Ned and His Sisters. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • I hate all that false amiability that goes on at parties.
  • The driver was an amiable young man.
  • Historically, Iraq was known in Europe by the Greek exonym 'Mesopotamia' (Land between the rivers), after the foundation of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1932, it became known by its ancient endonym 'Iraq'. WN.com - Articles related to Biden seeks thaw between Iraqi political rivals
  • Mullet, crabs, ray and other minnow are get together in the dock outside the Alabamian.
  • Ironically among the largest grants made was for archaeology, museum conservation and the teaching of ancient Mesopotamian languages.
  • I wonder what would happen if some of those people were compelled to go beyond such criticism and actually take on the responsibility of trying to survive in an intersocietal system that has been in a Hobbsean state of war since the first kingdoms arose in Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. ' Disagreement about Zbig: Acknowledging the Problem of Power
  • We suspect that it was a very amiable meeting because they are both decent people who know the score.
  • Damian gave up surfing and fine art to study film making in New York City, where he worked as a grip for several years.
  • He looked forward to a gentle decline into an eccentric and amiable dotage, his twilit years untroubled by chore or challenge.
  • Others are working on fake cheese, made from almond and macadamia milk. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cameron gulped the much-needed air as he turned to see Damian frowning.
  • It was thin, fine, red, decorated with a raised pattern and it looked very like the Samian ware she had seen in the museum MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • He is an amiable character when he is in the pub but he can be a very selfish man. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do you really want to go or are you merely being amiable?
  • His amiable personality and bluff manner had an impact and he came across as the straightforward soldier, doing his best for the country.
  • Duclos and De Bernis, who never missed a single Sunday, she would say to the first, with a light air, "_Bon jour, Duclos_;" to the second, with an air and voice more amiable, "_Bon jour_, abbé:" accompanying her words occasionally with a little tap on his cheek. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
  • A series of plants in which the sexual organs are not visible to the eye are called cryptogamia, which means, literally, hidden marriages. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
  • Whether it is his seared scallops with carrot fritters, marinated coriander chicken, coconut and lime and macadamia cake, ricotta hot cakes with honeycomb butter, or sensationally garlicky prawns, Bill's food is happy food.
  • For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
  • Next in frequency are the applications for private literary contributions, -- such as epithalamia, obituaries, addresses for lovers, and the like. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
  • Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
  • But it was Death, with a scythe and an amiable manner. Times, Sunday Times
  • He sprayed a picric acid and alum solution into the noses of forty-six hundred Alabamians, to no good end.
  • The thong is imprinted with yellow comedy and tragedy masks and the words “The Original Mardi Gras” (because Alabamians think their celebrations preceded those in Louisiana). 2009 February 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • SuppU Ad cap. b* Spei. lYNAMIA AN GIOSPERMI A; axillar. folitar, oppofitae -, dichotomae, paucifl* quap coniunAim magnam paniculam effomiant. Summa plantarum
  • His broad, brown-red face was only lightly lined, its earnest, amiable expression reflecting an inner comfort.
  • Shrimp in damiana and tequila sauce: Camarones al damiana y tequila by Mexican corn on the cob: Elotes
  • This migration is termed the Canaanitic or Amorite: it flowed into Mesopotamia and across Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
  • Bahamians (born with minds as fine as anyone else) are stultified intellectually, emotionally and culturally by the medieval religious environment that politicians have encouraged.
  • Bahamians need access to business loans, lines of credit and the traditional and untraditional ways of temporarily accessing funds that they don't have.
  • Her nascent brand, East Hampton Edibles, sells "butter brickle," a confection of crunchy caramel, chocolate and macadamia nuts available at local stores like Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton and the Elegant Setting in Southampton. Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
  • The science and engineering master was always amiable.
  • People have got the impression that the merino is a gentle, bleating animal that gets its living without trouble to anybody, and comes up every year to be shorn with a pleased smile upon its amiable face. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
  • Save room for a dessert treat because the hot macadamia nut cookie is delicious.
  • But when she meets an unusual customer with an affinity for French films, his beautiful smile and amiableness melt her.
  • Its name, incidentally, comes from the hardy and resilient zamia palm found in central Queensland.
  • For a more detailed discussion, see Yuri Shapoval, Ukraina 20-50-kh rokiv: storinky nenapysanoi istorii (Kyiv: Naukova dumka, 1993); Robert Kusnierz, Ukraina v latach kolektywizacji i Wielkiego Glodu (1929-1933) (Torun: GRADO, 2005); and Rozsekrechena pamiat. ACTION UKRAINE REPORT (Archive)
  • Another explores the death of Mozart and Van Gogh as the result of haunting by lamia.
  • The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate.
  • Nevertheless, his wealth and amiability gave him standing, he was chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Pembroke College was refounded in his honour.
  • How she loved to crunch them; dry roasted peanuts, macadamias, cashews, pistachios, walnuts and Brazils.
  • His winning concoction was Macadamia Fudge Torte: chocolate cake with fudge-filled cavities, topped by macadamia nut streusel.
  • These dogs are normally amiable in character. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
  • The police has put up a 'shamiana' at the scene of the blast in order to facilitate the work of investigators and forensic experts. Analysis
  • A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens.
  • The advent in 1851 of Hofmeister's brilliant discovery of the changes proceeding in the embryo-sac of flowering plants, and his determination of the correct relationships of these with the Cryptogamia, fixed the true position of Gymnosperms as a class distinct from Dicotyledons, and the term Angiosperm then gradually came to be accepted as the suitable designation for the whole of the flowering plants other than Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • An extra 10 points to Damian in that piece for using the word "orogeny", which I'm embarrassed to say Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
  • Lisa's models wear: crop-jacket pant suit; skirt suit in burlap with her signature raffia handwork, her homage to Bahamian straw basket makers.
  • As we exchange these few but amiable remarks about country houses, I furbish him up and make him concrete. Trumbles in Fiction III
  • His forthright, amiably assertive manner perhaps appealed to some readers.
  • The halecostomes, of which Amia is an example, have an opercular dilator muscle originating on the mandible which opens the operculum.
  • It is a pity that I only remember seeing one fellow diasporan Armenian already seated on a minibus when I stepped on traveling along Marshal Baghramian Avenue towards Friendship Square, just over two years ago. Archive 2004-11-01
  • But thou, sweet child, amiable and beloved boy, either thy spirit has sought a fitter dwelling, or, shrined in my heart, thou livest while it lives. The Last Man
  • It is staffed by the most amiable and strenuously obliging bunch of cosmopolitan youngsters who appear not to have been corrupted by working in hotel chains.
  • From Egypt to Syria to Germany, Jews living in the land of Mesopotamia which is now Israel can trace their linage back 3000 years and they never asked to own the land. The Truth about Palestinians Origin Part 6
  • Vinaigrettes can be made with all sorts of different oils, from the obvious olive or sunflower to macadamia, avocado or hempseed.
  • It proved that this Dennis Shea was a harmless, amiable fellow, of the class known as shiftless, who had sealed his fate by marrying a dumb wife, who was flexeril at that moment ironing in the laundry.. Rob Savage
  • These include ray-finned fish subclass Actinopterygii, "new-finned" fish Neopterygii, Messel garfish Atractosteus strausi, Messel bowfin Cyclurus ( 'Amia') kehreri, Archaic knife-fish Thaumaturus intermedius, Messel eel Anguilla ignota, high-backed predatory Messel perch Amphiperca multiformes, and double-finned Messel perch Palaeoperca proxima. Messel Pit fossil site, Germany
  • In short, Amiana proposes that writers of amatory fiction write something other than amatory fiction.
  • Hashim and Zahid claimed two wickets each. Jamia Ashrafia, in reply, could score only 109 runs for the loss of six wickets in 10 overs.
  • ONZ obietnicy "Save The World" w zamian za światowy ład gospodarczy (luty 2006) Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.
  • The tempo was then upped with the arrival of Dallas Tamiara for the final few songs including the album's first single, ‘Dust’.
  • Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
  • “The regime may not have eradicated poverty nor appreciatively narrowed the gap between rich and poor but it has provided the underclass with a safety net,” writes Abrahamian. Let the Swords Encircle Me
  • The best damiana liqueur is made on ranches in southern Baja, but commercial brands are becoming increasingly popular and available in large liquor stores and on the Internet. Shrimp in damiana and tequila sauce: Camarones al damiana y tequila
  • Devoid of attractions or of amiable manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head — that of a woman near on sixty — with a cap of a particular and unvarying shape, with long lappets, like that of a widow. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
  • Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir.
  • _ I heard Uncle Sam read the first three chapters of Genesis, which he translated into his own lingo as he went along, calling the subtile serpent the most "amiable" of beasts, and ignoring gender, person, and number in an astonishing manner. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
  • The great number given to Benjamin bespoke the warmth of his brother's attachment to him; and Joseph felt, from the amiable temper they now all displayed, he might, with perfect safety, indulge this fond partiality for his mother's son. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • He is an amiable character when he is in the pub but he can be a very selfish man. Times, Sunday Times
  • “We cannot prove to the contrary, to be sure; but I wish you a better fate, Miss Price, than to be the wife of a man whose amiableness depends upon his own sermons; for though he may preach himself into a good – humour every Sunday, it will be bad enough to have him quarrelling about green geese from Monday morning till Saturday night.” Mansfield Park
  • My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. Recollections of My Youth
  • But it is with sincere amiability that the imperial writer, who was indeed little used to be ironical, adds that the lively respect and affection of the junior had often "gladdened" him. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
  • And "lamia" represents the original Lilith, a spirit of the night who in Hebrew legend is the demon wife of Adam. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • The brick wall is approaching, and they merrily say things to mislead the Bahamian public.
  • Stream, and yew and arbutus, as well as tropical cryptogamia and Alpine plants, overgrow every available spot along the sides of the rough defile. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
  • Paul Keyser says that ‘Mesopotamian medical practice included a number of elements conducive to the reception of an electrotherapeutic device of this sort.’
  • The hospital charity could have found no celebrity more amiable to aid their appeal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Afra and Flk were trussing bird and scurrier beast for the spit while Damia and Trp were doing multiple tasks with the rest of the meal. Damia's Children
  • Tributes were paid to Councillors Jimmy Moloney and Damian Ryan for refusing to kowtow to the Heavy Hand Brigade and for walking out of the meeting in protest.
  • Backyard describes lumber from the tree scientifically named Cunninghamia lanceolata as cedar. Archive 2009-10-01
  • Its flavour has been likened to a cross between a Brazil nut and a macadamia nut.
  • The clove is native to the far east of Indonesia, yet somehow these cloves found their way to ancient Mesopotamia. A Conversation with Jack Turner
  • It is set in a health farm run by a targe, whose handyman is an amiable drunk.
  • Scuba divers explore the Julian Rocks Marine Reserve while bushwalkers stride into the rolling green hinterlands, through koala forests and macadamia plantations.
  • I still remember the B&B and macadamia orchard confiscated by the Zapatistas in Ocosingo a few years ago where the Zapatistas waited until the macadamia trees were in full fruition commercially speaking, confiscated the orchard from the foreign owners and then laid waste to it. Indian Land Grab on Michoacan Coast
  • He is an educated, amiable and decent man.
  • The sagaman consults poetical justice very well at first, and prepares us for an unfortunate end by depicting Grettir as, though valiant and in a way not ungenerous, yet not merely an incorrigible scapegrace, but somewhat unamiable and even distinctly ferocious. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
  • This was her story: she'd been staying at some fashionable spa where the German Emperor, an amiable dotard with whom, as Blowitz had said, she was on friendly terms, had sent for her in great agitation. Watershed
  • But he also possesses another, more amiable qualification: ability. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also unlike Mom, he thought it was a good idea to find out what we could about the lamia. Slayed
  • Jamiat Ulema e Islam leader Maulana Fazlur Reham said he was confident the partners could work through the differences.
  • A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
  • The man who was in the last degree amiable was to the last degree unyielding where conscience was concerned; the soul which was so tender had no weakness in it; his lenity was the divination of a finer justice. Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
  • “They are not mine,” said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. Wuthering Heights
  • I was fully mollified and feeling amiable towards him again.
  • Nor were the Charms of her Conversation less amiable than those of her Person: Her indulgent Father, though in his Youth he had lavish'd the best Part of his Patrimony, and had little to depend on but what accrued from a Post he held at Court, was now so good a Husband in other Things, as to afford her a very liberal Education. The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress
  • Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer. The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Damiano credits media reports on the many beneficial properties of tea are the primary reason for the increased demand.
  • He loves preparing and cooking fresh fish, and one of his favourite dishes to prepare is lightly curried line fish in mango butter, topped with a mango and macadamia nut pesto.
  • An amiable chat about everything but the matter at hand would begin at an administerial office, typically in the late morning, over a glass or two of the local vintage. Outlet Stores? The Gall!
  • Mabs and Tashie's contribution seemed to consist of amiably teasing Nigel and Henry.
  • There was what may have been a bishop's mitre on the skull, which grinned amiably up at us.
  • Damian, milkweed is also brilliant for healing damaged livers. Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo.
  • He had gone forever, to be replaced by the man she had really married, the ambitious and powerful Damian Flint.
  • They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series.
  • Other flowers of the classes of monecia and diecia, and polygamia, discharge the fecundating farina, which floating in the air is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • People in different civilisations have invented different writing systems: for example, scripts in Egypt, the cuneiform images in Mesopotamia, and Chinese characters in China.
  • Nobody would’ve been surprised that I couldn’t sleep that night, overtired from the drive and feeling like I’d entered a house of amiable neighbors. EXIT • by Donna Steiner
  • For this reason, the builders must dig through the mountains where there is amianthus and other harmful substances.
  • Ervand Abrahamian, posting on Gulf/2000, “Re: Nonviolence in Iran,” December 31, 2009, used with permission. Let the Swords Encircle Me
  • After the long, corrupt reign of an old debauched Prince, whose vices were degrading to himself and to a nation groaning under the lash of prostitution and caprice, the most cheering changes were expected from the known exemplariness of his successor and the amiableness of his consort. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • Yet, one still would have to show that this Egyptian creation was transferred to Mesopotamia, and that the Sumerian proto-cuneiform and cuneiform writing derived from Egypt.
  • At her side stood her younger sister, a canoness, who was paying her a few days 'visit -- an amiable lady with a very cheerful temperament. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
  • Oil of bergamot is extracted from the peel of the bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia or Citrus aurantium bergamia), a small pear shaped sour orange which is cultivated today mostly in southern Italy.
  • That the situation could have been allowed to reach such a point in Brazil, the country of "amiability" and "non-violence in politics" should prompt any leaders not yet entirely blinded by the "battle against subversion" to try to save their country's reputation. Torture in Brazil
  • Caramelized Poached Apple, Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, Candied Macadamia Nut.
  • The social virtues must, therefore, be allowed to have a natural beauty and amiableness, which, at first, antecedent to all precept or education, recommends them to the esteem of uninstructed mankind, and engages their affections. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
  • Or it may simply have been because the young man looked so amiable and vulnerable. Molly Keane's Ireland
  • In Nippur, for example, which was one of the most important sites in ancient Mesopotamia, many cuneiform tablets - including a copy of the Gilgamesh epic - are missing.
  • Whenever they have spoken at all they have said this; and they have said it on what has appeared good reason to them; the marching of an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to _you_ may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to _us_. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
  • In death from adynamia it is through failure of muscle, that is, of the heart, of the scaleni and intercostals, of the diaphragm, and of the laryngeal muscles, et cetera. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • Mesopotamiæ, in qua et fuit martyrizatus secundum quosdam, rursumque post sexaginta et tres annos recuperatum corpus in suam fuisse Ecclesiam restitutum, videlicet in Calamia, atque in eiusdem recuperationis signum certum dimiserunt isti, et dimittunt extra feretri loculum dependere brachium dextrum, cum manu quæ tetigisse creditur pia resurgentis vulnera Christi. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Damian Green announced the intention to 'minimise' detention of children in immigration centres, a climbdown from earlier plans to end the previous government's practice. Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
  • It's best to make it with a delicate oil such as macadamia, apricot kernel or extra light olive oil (extra virgin being too intense). Food for Thought

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