Here are some specimens of the amenity with which Keats was treated in Blackwood's Magazine: 'His friends, we understand, destined him to the career of medicine, and he was bound apprentice some years ago to a worthy apothecary in town....

The part of County Magistrateto which he had been bornhe played to perfection, and with a full sense of its dignified amenity.

No doubt the greater luxuriance in foliage and vegetation which adorns Simla is in some measure due to the presence of the European visitors who prevent the trees from being cut, and protect in other ways the amenity of the place.

He saw a woman's figure standing close to the casement, and out of the darkness Cissie Dildine's voice asked in its careful English: "Peter, may I come in?" CHAPTER XIV For a full thirty seconds Peter Siner stared at the girl at the window before, even with her prompting, he thought of the amenity of asking her to come inside.

It has nothing of the amenity and elegance which we generally find in the superstitions of Greece.

And further, it was well built, generously built; and its architecture, though debased, showed some faint traces of Georgian amenity.

] Pleasurableness N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness &c adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity^, delectability; amusement &c 840. attraction &c (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability^; invitingness &c adj.^; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability;

Admirable amenity!

" Mrs. Mesurier responded sympathetically; and then, by way of making himself pleasant, Mr. Clegg suddenly broke in with such an extraordinary amenity of old-world gallantry that everybody's hair stood on end.

Now that Maloja is being opened as a Winter centre, every amenity for a Winter holiday will probably be offered.

That each Power is allowed to deal with its own subjects in its own way is becoming an accepted rule of international amenity.

"(6) The Storemannow demobilised and dispersedmay have committed the irregularity suggested, with the idea of increasing the amenity of the stores during the inspection, as a humble compliment to the A.A.L.R.B.G.S. "(7) No. 55,442, Procter, Mary, a member of the Q.M.A.A.C., may be correct in her statement that the article described as a 'blanket' was not a blanket, but a rug, travelling.

Sylvia turned back from the door of the salon, feeling a fine glow of conscious amenity, and found that Austin Page's mood differed notably from her own.

She was extremely absorbed in the luxury, the amenity, the smooth-working perfection of the life about her.

The grievance was still at the old squire's heart in spite of the amenity of Mr. Brown's letter; but John Caldigate, who was approaching his house and his wife, and to whom, after his imprisonment even the flat fields and dykes were beautiful, did not at the moment much regard the anomaly of the machinery by which he had been liberated.

She cannot always be beautiful, poor dear, and she is not invariably gracious, it is true; yet, on the whole, how much the atmosphere of office life has gained in amenity by the coming of the stenographer, the typewriter, and the telephone girl, not to speak of her frequent decorative value in a world that has hitherto been uncompromisingly harsh and unadorned!

The eyes and the brain preserve a proverbial warfare, which is the source of all amenity, for without lady-service there would be no songs and tourneys, no measure and no good breeding; and a man delinquent in domnei is no more to be valued than an ear of corn without the grain.

To use servants with harshness, or to be wanting in that species of consideration for them which consists in a certain mildness and amenity of manner, would ruffle and deform that smooth surface of things which it is agreeable to the taste of people in high life to see around them.

So ripe was that life, more than two thousand years ago, that it is hard to say what they did not know, of the things which make for amenity and comity.

We can judge of the quiet and security of the early disciples at Kells, the comfort and amenity of their daily life, the spirit of comity and good-will, the purity of inspiration of that early time, by the artistic truth and beauty of these illuminated pages and the perfection with which the work was done.

Before leaving that capital I had the honour of being present at his nuptials, a ceremony the amenity of which was somewhat disturbed by the violent incursion into the sacred edifice of sundry ladies all claiming to have prior claims on the bridegroom of the hour.

It is like one of those places celebrated in antiquity which were devoted to the purposes of religion, and filled with sacred groves, hallowed fountains, and temples dedicated to several deities; the resort of distant nations and the object of veneration to half the heathen world: the pomp is, at Stowe, blended with beauty; and the place is equally distinguished by its amenity and grandeur."

with a sudden change of tone, and return to amenity.

" "Not true?" he echoes, catching up my words quickly; but in his voice is none of the relief, the restored amenity that I had looked for, and for the hope of which I have perjured myself; equally in voice and face, there is only a deep and astonished anger.

Each individual was expected to practise, and did in fact practise to a consummate degree, those difficult arts which make the wheels of human intercourse run smoothlythe arts of tact and temper, of frankness and sympathy, of delicate compliment and exquisite self-abnegationwith the result that a condition of living was produced which, in all its superficial and obvious qualities, was one of unparalleled amenity.