How To Use Amiable In A Sentence

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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
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.
The science and engineering master was always amiable.

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Now this amiable Bostonian is ready to pack on some serious size to do damage at the next level.
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
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.
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
Perhaps he was too amiable, too diffident and conciliatory in his approach. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
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
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
The hospital charity could have found no celebrity more amiable to aid their appeal. Times, Sunday Times
Michel Bouquet delivers a revelatory, award-worthy performance as the amiable and mysterious French president.
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 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
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
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
The driver was an amiable young man.
We suspect that it was a very amiable meeting because they are both decent people who know the score.
He looked forward to a gentle decline into an eccentric and amiable dotage, his twilit years untroubled by chore or challenge.
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
For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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
His broad, brown-red face was only lightly lined, its earnest, amiable expression reflecting an inner comfort.
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
But when she meets an unusual customer with an affinity for French films, his beautiful smile and amiableness melt her.
The popular image of him as a laconic, amiable figure is not entirely accurate.
These dogs are normally amiable in character. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
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,
As we exchange these few but amiable remarks about country houses, I furbish him up and make him concrete. Trumbles in Fiction III
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.
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
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
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
_ 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
The hospital charity could have found no celebrity more amiable to aid their appeal. Times, Sunday Times
It is set in a health farm run by a targe, whose handyman is an amiable drunk.
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
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
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!
They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series.
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
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
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
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
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
I should have written, "... and spent an hour in amiable CONVERSATION ... La Siranda- a new, elegant, boutique hotel in P�tzcuaro
Emma, a clever, pretty, and self-satisfied young woman, is the daughter, and mistress of the house, of Mr Woodhouse, an amiable old valetudinarian.
She is perfectly amiable, and often drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton.
Taking a break from his sermonising trilogy on American values, The Boss of It All finds Lars Von Trier in amiable and comedic mood, spinning out a plot that explores several of his favourite hobbyhorses: following individuals attempting to escape from reason, poking fun at group dynamics, and deflating actors 'egos. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 10/23.
It isn't all bad - the staff here are amiable and attentive to the needs of boozers and diners alike.
Finally, an amiable person pulled up in an old pickup truck and let the poor man in.
That the gourmand, amiable savant, is pictured as nibbling on a partridge wing (itself related to the arm which raises it to the diner's mouth) au suprême (mark of invested expertise), thus with the expertly prepared food neither completely inside or outside the mouth even as it is consumed, a circumstance that works to prolong the process of eating and its attendant pleasure, emphasizes this ambiguity. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
There is no such beautifier as thoughtful goodness; and the amiable character, and clear understanding of Grace Darling, shone through her hazel eyes, and added to her loveliness. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands
Perhaps he was too amiable, too diffident and conciliatory in his approach. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Despite his life going downhill, he was still described by people who knew him as a gentle, placid, easy-going, amiable man.
This amazing, confounding, admirable, amiable beauty, [4817] than which in all nature's treasure (saith Isocrates) there is nothing so majestical and sacred, nothing so divine, lovely, precious, Anatomy of Melancholy
These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill – humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield. Emma
O my dear Lady G.! said Emily, as we followed the meek-eyed goddess of wisdom [such her air, her manner, her amiableness, seemed in my thought, at that time, to make her], never, never, was such graciousness! Sir Charles Grandison
From this another conclusion may be draw, namely, that the sorry soldier of Mexico is not altogether amiable and is prone to be nasty and dangerous to the American boys who have crossed the sea to take "peaceable" possession of a customhouse. Mexico's Army and Ours
One of the reasons we chose Jing Jing is that they're very amiable about people pulling up another chair when needed. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
To sum up, do in Rome as Rome does, but you need not worry about these cultural barriers since most Chinese are hospitable and amiable and will not mind your nonproficiency.
Last week, instead of the normal amiable discussion, the guests slogged it out over the continuing circulation battle between Scotland's two major broadsheet newspapers.
He determines to ensnare an old schoolfellow, Heartfree, an innocent and gullible jeweller, who lives happily with his wife and children and his amiable apprentice Friendly.
That feel of the old hobnobbing with the new is more amiable. Smithsonian
He reacted as if it were an amiable proposal that he should visit the vet and be gelded.
The dahabiyeh -- her very name, the _Loulia_, has a gentle, seductive, cooing sound -- drifts broadside to the current with furled sails, or glides smoothly on before an amiable north wind with sails unfurled. The Spell of Egypt
Now, this amiable duo of 19-year-olds, completed by Harley "Kicks" Alexander-Sule, are eyeing an ascent of the pop charts themselves, thanks in part to another ninepin effect – success by association. Rizzle Kicks; Alex Clare – review
The driver was an amiable young man.
We tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline.
His politeness, his learning, his knowledge of the world, however amiable, are in character at his season of life; but his vivacity is astonishing. The History of Emily Montague
Ryan asked, but Meg could tell he wasn't irritated; his tone was teasingly amiable.
Mamma was at the Willard waiting for "those darling children" to come, and when, much later than he was expected, "dear Paul" arrived alone and in a greatly perturbed state of mind, mother and son had considerable food for thought until the midnight car carried them back to Annapolis, where Paul "clomb" the wall at the water's edge and "snoke" into quarters (in Bancroft's vernacular) in the wee, sma 'hours, a weary, disgusted and unamiable youth. Peggy Stewart at School
He couldn't help thinking of one of those amiable, rumpled bears out of Uncle Remus. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
The cops tolerated the amiable disorderliness of it all ever since rousting a bunch of skating lawyers a few years ago and getting hammered in court and in the court of public opinion.
I can imagine the pair of them up to the chest in waders, casting a fly on the Tay: they have the amiable mien of anglers and look as if they can afford it.
The Javanese are a very docile, amiable, and intelligent people; they are faithful and honest servants, and are brave and trustworthy in danger, when they can trust to their leaders. Mark Seaworth
The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing. Ulysses
For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
We were given an excellent tour by Conchita Tena, and spent an hour in amiable while seated on the terrace, sipping agua fresca de guayba. La Siranda- a new, elegant, boutique hotel in P�tzcuaro
“Buzz, do you think that the phrase amiable strangers is apt?” First Man
The Japanese history of “Tanzar and Neadarne,” by the same author, is an amiable extravagancy, interspersed with the most just reflections. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
He is an amiable, talkative, Irish chap who has a fresh bottle of champers tucked under his arm which he continues to crack open in front of us as he makes small talk about why we, as Europeans, have all ended up living in San Francisco.
He was blonde haired, blue eyed, and perhaps one of the most amiable people in the town.
Just watch the amiable face cloud over as the subject of passing years is raised.
The no-more-bowing decision was credited to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, an amiable, faintly woebegone chap who is a cousin of the queen.
'You, indeed,' continued the temperate Eugenia, 'if so situated, would not so have behaved; you would not have been so unjust; and you could not have been so weak; but still, if you had received, however causelessly, any alarm for the affection of the man you meant to marry, and that man were as amiable as Edgar, you would have been equally disturbed.' Camilla
The fact is that his temper was so amiable and conciliatory, his conduct so rational, never urging impossibilities, or even things unreasonably inconvenient to them, in short so moderate and attentive to their difficulties, as well as our own, that what his enemies called subserviency I saw was only that reasonable disposition which, sensible that advantages are not all to be on one side, yielding what is just and liberal, is the more certain of obtaining liberality and justice. Benjamin Franklin
On my return home, I had a party to supper; and the whole conversation centred in encomiums on the person, graces, and amiable manners of the illustrious Heir-apparent. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
A most amiable and kindly man, he was held in very high esteem and was a noted character in the area.
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
Mary had been assured that "Dolly" was absolutely dependable, would not shy, had a kind and gentle disposition, and was easy to manage; but now she was actually gazing upon this amiable annihilator, the courage oozed out of her suddenly pounding heart and her eyes widened with fright and suspicion. The 1926 Tatler
Cornell, a lean, beaky charmer of a boss, would have made an amiable barrister.
He behaves in the most amiable and, indeed, noble fashion, instals her in his rooms, turns himself and his servant out to the nearest hotel, fetches the proper ministress, and, not content with this Good A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
With the ruddy complexion and amiable air of a village butcher, Goldie mixes hope with realism. Times, Sunday Times
Nora was a woman to laugh and chat with; Nora was kind and gracious, and gentle too; Nora was amiable as well as witty; charming in manner, piquant in expression, inimitable at an anecdote, with never-failing resources, a first-rate lady-conversationist, if I may use so formidable a word -- in fact, a thoroughly fascinating woman; but Marion! The Lady of the Ice A Novel
See, I would have loved to be able to make this list instead: amiable, charitable, compassionate, devoted, duteous, and regardful.
Mr. Knightley expressed his disapproval of Frank's behavior and Emma's vision of him by contrasting what he called French amiableness with English amiableness.
He left behind him a name endeared to the Virginians by his amiable manners, his liberal patronage of the arts, and, above all, by his zealous intercession for their rights. Life of George Washington — Volume 01
One young and lovely canoness dared to maintain the rights of her freedom, even in the face of her most amiable enemy. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
The implacable Destiny which consigns the brothers to mutual enmity and mutual destruction, for the guilt of a past generation, involving a Mother and a Sister in their ruin, spreads a sombre hue over all the poem; we are not unmoved by the characters of the hostile Brothers, and we pity the hapless and amiable Beatrice, the victim of their feud. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
But he was ever hendy [amiable, kindly, courteous] to me. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
There was an awkward silence which Maidstone might have broken with some amiable remark to save Sandison's face.
The whole party, however, and a more amiable never existed, were scared and disgusted into this by the catachrestic language and skeleton half-truths of the systematic divines of the Synod of Dort on the one hand, and by the sickly broodings of the Pietists and Solomon's-Song preachers on the other. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anger and resentment had elbowed aside his normally amiable demeanour.
Perhaps no one better represents the true precieuse of the seventeenth century, the happy blending of social savoir-faire with an amiable temper and a cultivated intellect. The Women of the French Salons
If he is allowed to continue, others with less amiable intentions will follow.
He was charming, amiable, and as strong as an ox. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
I think his Excellency Don Rafael Maroto, the pacificator of Spain, is an amiable character, for whom history has not been written in vain. The Paris Sketch Book
They are amiable, because it chances to be one of the constitutional tendencies of their individual character, left uneffaced by the Fall; and _they an just and upright_, _because they have perhaps no occasion to be otherwise_, _or find it subservient to their interests to maintain such a character_.” — “Occ. Disc.” vol.i. p. 8. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
Or it may simply have been because the young man looked so amiable and vulnerable. Molly Keane's Ireland
It was as amiable and intimate as a friendly handshake. Times, Sunday Times
He recently married a sweet-tempered and amiable young woman from Bath, and has been so troublesome and cruel to her, that she is almost always in tears before him.
Slowly, Tak untucked himself from a comfortable nook towards the bottom of an amiable pit of despair. Tak Tuckerby
Now it is to tell us that he has found yellow archangel growing under a sequestered hedge "on the left hand as you go from the village of Hampstead, near London, to the church," or that "this amiable and pleasant kind of primrose" (a sort of oxlip) was first brought to light by Mr. Hesketh, "a diligent searcher after simples," in a Yorkshire wood. Gossip in a Library
Irish volcano consisted of the lake of Killarney, which I naturally conceived her to mean; but, on second thoughts, I divined that she alluded to _Ice_land and to Hecla -- and so it proved, though she sustained her volcanic topography for some time with all the amiable pertinacity of 'the feminie.' Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
And if your sound man is amiable and cooperative, our policy isn't going to make much difference in the end. Christianity Today
This brave and exciting cityscape gives way to more prosaic buildings on College and Queens Street, while further uptown is the amiable Victorian enclave of Cabbage Town.
What possible motive could this round, friendly, most amiable of men have for murder?
Even across the street, Larcher was impressed anew with the young man's engagingness of expression, which owed much to a whimsical, amiable look about the mouth. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day
The cast/crew is excellent: Richard Holt's John is an amiable prefect, Akiya Henry's Titty is an imaginative live wire, Katie Moore's Susan is as tidy as her plimsolls and Stewart Wright's Roger is a treat – a colossus in cardigans. Swallows and Amazons – review
These dogs are normally amiable in character. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
He is an amiable host who cooks a lip-smacking barbecue and pours a good glass of red wine. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps he was too amiable, too diffident and conciliatory in his approach. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
The show was designed specifically to appeal to other African-American teens, and while it was amiable enough entertainment it suffered from a sugary cuteness and too much sentimentality.
Surely, without any of my pleading, women will welcome their great and amiable protectrix, as by instinct. The Works of Max Beerbohm
It proved that this Dennis Shea was a harmless, amiable fellow, of the class known as shiftless, who had scaled his fate by marrying a dumb wife, who was at that moment ironing in the laundry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
When he was running for the job, they described him as an amiable but uncurious and dimwitted scion.
On opening night, the amiable owner appeared in a bandido costume. Smithsonian Mag
The old man's overcoat stirs in the dark, as though about to cup a hand once more to an unhearing ear, to wink an amiable eye and disappear serenely.
He was charming, amiable, and as strong as an ox. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin
What he does want is a woman amiable as a surface of parchment, serviceable as his inkstand; one who will be like the wig in which he closes his forensic term, disreputable from overwear, but suited to the purpose. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The veteran pilot, an amiable family man, had domestic problems. Times, Sunday Times
This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks.
This movie has it all - the dorky sidekick, bitchy cheerleaders and an amiable working class.
The extremely amiable Italian owner/manager bimbles over with a menu.
Figgs and the Doctor were exchanging glances with a couple of lady codfishes and trying to look amiable. The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
Keen runner Kevin Edwards, 37, who had been reported missing on Sunday, was called "amiable" and "friendly" by his family in Llanberis. BBC News - Home
Leonora; the idea of exalting this amiable being mingles largely with the other motives to his enterprise. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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 meclizine at that moment ironing in the laundry.. Rob Savage
He was about forty, and his fine head of blond hair, which he'd taken care not to disturb in removing the hood, was artfully dressed in the style they used to call windswept; that, and the elegance of his duds, were in obscene contrast to the bloated face, but it was the eyes that told me my first impression had been right in the bull: they were bold, blue, smiling, and amiable as fish-hooks. THE NUMBERS
But soon we drew out of the hot sunshine into the old orchard with its paltry display of deformed, green, runt apples, and its magnificent columns and canopies of poison ivy -- that most beautiful and least amiable of our indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in the sand at the bottom. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
Rumpole is an amiable old cove.
He was not an amiable character, and the enemies he made conspired to ruin him. The Times Literary Supplement
The death penalty, say these amiables and futilitarians, creates blood-thirstiness in the unthinking masses and defeats its own ends - is itself a cause of murder, not a check.
He is genial, amiable, but apparently oblivious to danger. Times, Sunday Times
Both have an amiable and easy exterior that often veils their technical brilliance.
Oscar -- the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar -- with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions .... of others! Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions
Behind that amiable facade, he's a deeply unpleasant man.
They branded him ‘degraded, unteachable, unamiable, querulous, and unmanly.’
Like an amiable but daffy uncle, he repeatedly hangs himself with his own anecdotes.
He is an amiable person, but very disorganised, and this often leads to frustration on the part of staff, and friction.
That sort of knowledge, by which a man has a sensible perception of amiableness and loathsomeness, or of sweetness and nauseousness, is not just the same sort of knowledge with that, by which he knows what a triangle is, and what a square is. Warranted Christian Belief
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 magnesium at that moment ironing in the laundry.. Rob Savage
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. Pride and Prejudice
The film thrives on the chemistry between its two likeable leads, while the rest of the cast is funny and amiable.
Of all Europe's princes today, Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre must be one of the most amiable and likeable.
To elucidate and confirm our opinions on this subject, we beg leave to ask, what is that play in which there is such a mass of virtue and simplicity, and such a number of amiable personages, opposed to such a mass of villany, subtlety, fraudful avarice, and sensual vice, as in The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
It creates a sort of scholarly "rapport" -- this use of commas -- between the gentility of the author and the assumed gentility of the reader, taking the latter into a kind of amiable partnership in ironic superiority. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
They are not mine," said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. Wuthering Heights
When the mind is sensible of the sweet beauty and amiableness of a thing, that implies a sensibleness of sweetness and delight in the presence of the idea of it; and this sensibleness of the amiableness or delightfulness of beauty, carries in the very nature of it, the sense of the heart; or an effect and impression the soul is the subject of, as a substance possessed of taste, inclination and will. (p. 272) Warranted Christian Belief
A most amiable and kindly man, he was held in very high esteem and was a noted character in the area.
A most amiable and kindly man, he was held in very high esteem and was a noted character in the area.
He was charming, amiable, and as strong as an ox. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
He seemed an amiable young man.
The hospital charity could have found no celebrity more amiable to aid their appeal. Times, Sunday Times
The foot soldiers of this movement are mostly amiable halfwits.
Her amiable vignettes recall '40s or '50s illustrations, and she draws on the figurine tradition in form and material if not in subject matter.
He described him Mr Reid as an amiable person who wanted to learn the basics of the religion.
Liszt, that amiable critic replied that the word "grotesque" had no place in piano playing -- that they should properly be called jocose, or something of that sort. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
I could not refrain from showing the airs to Mussard and to Mademoiselle du Vernois, his 'gouvernante', who was a very good and amiable girl. The Confessions of J J Rousseau

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