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262 examples of Agreeable in a sentence

He had been known, in the circle of the Musketeers, to win in one night three thousand pistoles; to lose them even to the gold-embroidered belt for gala days, win all this again with the addition of a hundred louis, without his beautiful eyebrow being heightened or lowered half a line, without his hands losing their pearly hue, without his conversation, which was cheerful that evening, ceasing to be calm and agreeable.
D’Artagnan employed himself in arranging a little plan, of which we shall hereafter see the execution, and which promised him some agreeable adventure, as might be seen by the smiles which from time to time passed over his countenance, whose thoughtfulness they animated.
"And now, my young friend, for you will permit me, I hope, to give you that name," said Lord de Winter, "on this very evening, if agreeable to you, I will present you to my sister, Milady Clarik, for I am desirous that she should take you into her good graces; and as she is not in bad odor at court, she may perhaps on some future day speak a word that will not prove useless to you."
Milady listened with the greatest attention, and yet it was easily to be perceived, whatever effort she made to conceal her impressions, that this recital was not agreeable to her.
"Because, monsieur," replied Kitty, "my mistress loves you not at all.""HEIN!" said d’Artagnan, "can she have charged you to tell me so?""Oh, no, monsieur; but out of the regard I have for you, I have taken the resolution to tell you so.""Much obliged, my dear Kitty; but for the intention only--for the information, you must agree, is not likely to be at all agreeable."
"On the contrary, stay, Monsieur d’Artagnan; your agreeable company will divert me.""Oh, oh!" thought d’Artagnan.
On guard!"Milady assumed the most agreeable air possible, and conversed with more than her usual brilliancy.
"In the first place," said Athos, "let us leave this chamber; the dead are not agreeable company, particularly when they have died a violent death."
There were also less agreeable visits--for two or three times reports were spread that the cardinal had nearly been assassinated.
However, he continued all the same, but with increasing warmth: "Yes, I can very well understand that after having inherited the fortune of my brother it would be very agreeable to you to be my heir likewise; but know beforehand, if you kill me or cause me to be killed, my precautions are taken.
As if the Catholic religion was not the most advantageous and the most agreeable of all religions!
In four days’ time the shore will be beneath your feet, the sea will be open to you--more open than will perhaps be agreeable to you, for in four days England will be relieved of you."
She tried to be agreeable, and she was charming, winning the good superior by her varied conversation and by the graces of her whole personality.
The women looked as sad and as resigned as the men; their faces were agreeable but expressionless, and they wore gowns and petticoats of dark 'vadmel'; as maidens, they wore over their braided hair a little knitted brown cap; when married, they put around their heads a coloured handkerchief, crowned with a peak of white linen.
He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.
But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable.
Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him.
All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes.
They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
With _them_ he is remarkably agreeable."
If he had been so very agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long.
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
What an agreeable man Sir William is, Mr. Bingley, is not he?
Chapter 11When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared.
On Sunday, after morning service, the separation, so agreeable to almost all, took place.
"That is all very proper and civil, I am sure," said Mrs. Bennet, "and I dare say she is a very agreeable woman.
Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
"I have no right to give _my_ opinion," said Wickham, "as to his being agreeable or otherwise.
I knew it to be a most respectable, agreeable corps, and my friend Denny tempted me further by his account of their present quarters, and the very great attentions and excellent acquaintances Meryton had procured them.
The prospect of the Netherfield ball was extremely agreeable to every female of the family.
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