Mrs Hardman's duties as hostess could not be neglected, and she mixed with her guests with the dignified affability of former years.

I'll tell you what I'll do, SIMPSON," continues the Ritualistic organist, with sudden confidential affability.

The young lady, who also saw it, blushed as red as fire, and thereupon delivered a courtesy to poor Barnaby, with a most sweet and gracious affability.

I'll tell you what I'll do, SIMPSON," continues the Ritualistic organist, with sudden confidential affability.

Besides, it was, in fact, not sorrow that he felt, rather it was contentment, when he remembered the girl's present happiness; and what alone depressed the colonel's courtly affability toward the universe at large was the queer, horrible new sense of being somehow out of touch with yesterday's so comfortable world, of being out-moded, of being almost old.

Each was at once sensible of the contrast between them, and each was at once affected by it: the captain to a greater jauntiness, a more effusive affability; the other to a stonier sternness.

She bowed to the judge with excessive affability and sat down.

"What, are you off already?" asked Porphyrius, kindly offering the young man his hand with extreme affability.

The great man was accordingly delighted; he replied with all that graceful affability of which he was a master, declared that his correspondent was 'un prince philosophe qui rendra les hommes heureux,' and showed that he meant business by plunging at once into a discussion of the metaphysical doctrines of 'le sieur Wolf,' whom Frederick had commended as 'le plus célèbre philosophe de nos jours.'

The first smile of a man, whose fortune gives him power to reward his dependants, commonly enchants him beyond resistance; the glare of equipage, the sweets of luxury, the liberality of general promises, the softness of habitual affability, fill his imagination; and he soon ceases to have any other wish than to be well received, or any measure of right and wrong but the opinion of his patron.

The queen, too, as she always did, had made a most favorable impression on those members whom she had seen by her judicious and cordial affability.

But when, after fresh explanations, he understood that the roofing was so worn and damaged that it required to be changed entirely, he suddenly departed from his lofty affability and began to protest, declaring that he could not possibly expend in such repairs a sum which would exceed the whole annual rental of six hundred francs.

There are many persons of doubtful social standing, who seek to make upto bridge that narrow and unfathomable gulfby affability.

When I was at school he was rough and brutal in his manner towards me, as he was to all; but now he seemed to be endeavoring to inspire my confidence by treating me with kindly regard and pleasant affability.

WASHINGTON] None the less she did her duties well, and in these "Lady Washington" was more at home, for, according to Thacher, she combined "in an uncommon degree, great dignity of manner with most pleasing affability," though possessing "no striking marks of beauty," and there is no doubt that she lightened Washington's shoulders of social demands materially.

She replied with rare affability, and that entire absence of mock-modesty which was already a feature in her character.

He turned to Gip with a smile of remarkable affability.

And then the huntsman addressed Avery with sardonic affability.

His dignified person and agreeable countenance, with the most unaffected affability, give me high satisfaction.

His unbounded affability, his liveliness and cordiality, his unaffected kindness to his friends had made him popular with the high as well as the low.

He retained the same unbending soul, and by his fixed countenance and measured language, sometimes by an artificial affability, he tried to conceal his approaching end.

These people criticised us with insinuating severity, and proposed amendments with unrelenting affability.

"I hope," with bald affability, in desperation of a topic, "that you will all enjoy yourselves!" "Thank you, my lady!"

He was, says William of Tyre, "a lord of noble descent, of tall and elegant figure, the handsomest of the princes of the earth, a man of charming affability and conversation, open-handed and magnificent beyond measure,"