He combined as no other man has ever combined its practical energy, its patient and enduring force, its profound sense of duty, the reserve and self-control that steady in it a wide outlook and a restless daring, its temperance and fairness, its frank geniality, its sensitiveness to action, its poetic tenderness, its deep and passionate religion.

Caroline herself negligently admitted it by a peculiar, brusque, unaffected geniality of condescension towards Sarah.

"All right," said Wynn, with an apparent accession of boisterous geniality.

At the same time he observed with characteristic geniality: "Oh, you have made this Faun quite old, and yet have left him all his teeth!

I sought to break down his reserve, and make myself acceptable to him, by the display of a discreet geniality, and a certain frankness, not falling into familiarity, which should seem to proceed from sympathy, and a bonhommie, that, assured of its own kindly purpose, would take no account of his almost angry distance.

They are not necessarily ungenial peopleindeed they sometimes have a great deal of external geniality; but when it is a question of forming a closer relationship, they are alarmed and depressed by the responsibility which attaches to it, and become colder instead of warmer, the deeper and more imperative that the claims upon them become.

I said, with fatal geniality.

"It couldna hae got oot o' that by accident!" "Weel," interposed Cosh, with forced geniality, "it's no a thing tae argie-bargie aboot.

"And what might you be doing around these parts?" asked the big man, veiling his contempt under a mild geniality.

No zeal, no faith, no intellectual trenchancy, but as much low-minded geniality and trivial complaisance as you please.

And yet, deep down in his heart he was conscious of so earnest a desire to be really one of them, this good-natured, good-hearted, gay-spirited little throng, with their delightful intimacies, their keen interest in each other's welfare, their potent, almost mysterious geniality, which seemed to draw the stranger of kindred tastes so closely under its influence.

The speaker was a man of fifty, stout and floridthe latter peculiarity especially marked in his nose; he looked like a substantial merchant, and spoke with rather pompous geniality.

Here, John Wingfield, Sr. had gained points through post-prandial geniality which he could never have won in the presence of the battery of push-buttons; here, his most successful conceptions had come to him; here, he had known the greatest moments of his life.

Here, John Wingfield, Sr. had gained points through post-prandial geniality which he could never have won in the presence of the battery of push-buttons; here, his most successful conceptions had come to him; here, he had known the greatest moments of his life.

His rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature, gave color and charm to his life.

"I thought I heard your voice," said he with reckless geniality.

When one has waded through masses of evidence on American municipal corruption, that phrase about 'big-souled geniality' makes one shudder.

Since time immemorial there have been worse scoundrels unhung than Hector Ratichon, and he has the saving grace which few possessof unruffled geniality.

"Ah, Jimmy," said Theodore with the aggressive geniality which his old associates so well remember, "come right here," and catching me by the arm he pulled the corporal into the immediate presence of the victor of Gettysburg.

but she was pleased to see the young man perceived at once that they were ladies, and helped them without any violent geniality; and how nicely he showed that his civilities were to be no excuse for further intrusions.

" When, about an hour or two afterwards, Uncle Isham brought Mr Croft his dinner, the old negro appeared to have lost that air of attentive geniality which he usually put on while waiting on the gentleman.