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174 examples of Amiable in a sentence

"I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child.
His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable.
Do you see?'He was still smiling in the most amiable manner.
Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been made amiable himself; for he was very young when he married, and very fond of his wife.
She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent.
It was enough for her that he appeared to be amiable, that he loved her daughter, and that Elinor returned the partiality.
It implies everything amiable.
Edward is very amiable, and I love him tenderly.
I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable."
What his mother really is we cannot know; but, from Fanny's occasional mention of her conduct and opinions, we have never been disposed to think her amiable; and I am very much mistaken if Edward is not himself aware that there would be many difficulties in his way, if he were to wish to marry a woman who had not either a great fortune or high rank."
I can only pronounce him to be a sensible man, well-bred, well-informed, of gentle address, and, I believe, possessing an amiable heart."
"This will probably be the case," he replied; "and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
Is she said to be amiable?"
Elinor was much more hurt by Marianne's warmth than she had been by what produced it; but Colonel Brandon's eyes, as they were fixed on Marianne, declared that he noticed only what was amiable in it, the affectionate heart which could not bear to see a sister slighted in the smallest point.
Or at least, if she did not bring herself quite to rejoice in Edward's being fettered to Lucy, she determined, that had Lucy been more amiable, she OUGHT to have rejoiced.
I am very sure myself, that had Willoughby turned out as really amiable, as he has proved himself the contrary, Marianne would yet never have been so happy with HIM, as she will be with Colonel Brandon."
His circumstances are now unembarrassed--he suffers from no evil of that kind; and he thinks only that he has married a woman of a less amiable temper than yourself.
I had therefore nothing in the world to do, but to fancy myself in love; and as my mother did not make my home in every respect comfortable, as I had no friend, no companion in my brother, and disliked new acquaintance, it was not unnatural for me to be very often at Longstaple, where I always felt myself at home, and was always sure of a welcome; and accordingly I spent the greatest part of my time there from eighteen to nineteen: Lucy appeared everything that was amiable and obliging.
CHAPTER 50After a proper resistance on the part of Mrs. Ferrars, just so violent and so steady as to preserve her from that reproach which she always seemed fearful of incurring, the reproach of being too amiable, Edward was admitted to her presence, and pronounced to be again her son.
The Maharajah proved a large and amiable despot, brown and bush-bearded, arrayed in a gold-sprigged green velvet dressing-gown, who appeared only too delighted to meet a man who had no connection with the Government of India, and who never mentioned the subject of money.
I learned it since I have been in prison, and that from the conversation of Monsieur the Commissary--an amiable man."
"PARDIEU," cried d’Artagnan, "it will be a double amusing affair to save the queen with the cardinal’s money!""You are an amiable and charming young man," said Mme. Bonacieux.
D’Artagnan approached him with the most amiable air he could assume.
"My good dame," asked d’Artagnan, "can you tell me what has become of one of my friends, whom we were obliged to leave here about a dozen days ago?""A handsome young man, three- or four-and-twenty years old, mild, amiable, and well made?"
She looked at the clock, rose, reseated herself, smiled at d’Artagnan with an air which said, "You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."
She then made an extraordinary effort to receive him, but never did a more distressed countenance give the lie to a more amiable smile.
"There is someone, then, concealed here whose throat this amiable lady is desirous of cutting," said de Winter, in an ironical, contemptuous tone.
She is amiable and well-behaved."
"How can I avoid interesting myself for one who is so beautiful and so amiable?
So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff."
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