Beside him lay a ruler, which he grasped, and made a movement of hospitable reception with, as Verty came in.

I delight in these hospitable estates, in which everyone has a kind of propertyat least as far as the foot-path is concerned.

There is a wide hospitable fire-place, calculated for an ample old-fashioned wood fire, formerly the rallying place of winter festivity.

Behold a hospitable native ready to receive us at his door!

His retreat was invaded by great numbers, who wished to see so illustrious a man, but no one was turned away from his hospitable mansion.

He was very hospitable, and delighted to receive his friends in a simple and natural way at his house.

He was most hospitable to his friends, and while Airy resided at Cambridge his house was always open to receive him on his frequent visits to town.

The very names of their different destinations, and the imagination of the wonders they would see (though we were going to a spot as full of wonders as any), raised something like envy in our breasts, all the more because most of them persisted in tantalising us, in the hospitable fashion of all West Indians, by fruitless invitations to islands and ports, which to have seen were 'a joy for ever.'

Hence the epithet hospitable ([Greek: philoxeinois]) applied to the Dioskouroi in the first line.

* Tyndareus' hospitable sons and lovely-haired Helen shall I please assuredly in doing honour to renownëd Akragas by a hymn upraised for Theron's Olympian crown; for hereunto hath the Muse been present with me that I should find out a fair new device, fitting to feet that move in Dorian time the Komos-voices' splendid strain.

* Thrice winner in Olympic games, of citizens beloved, to strangers hospitable, the house in whose praise will I now celebrate happy Corinth, portal of Isthmian Poseidon and nursery of splendid youth.

Why, we met never a tattered vagabond on the road but he was halloing of ditties, and a kinder, more hospitable set of people never lived.

His whole manner was most kindly and hospitable,as was that of every Tallahassean with whom I had occasion to speak,and I told him with sincere gratitude that I should certainly avail myself of his courtesy and stroll through his woods.

Both churches are hospitable and, apart from the cloisters, free and eminently suited for dallying in; thus differing from the Duomo, which is dark, and S. Lorenzo, where there are payments to be made and attendants to discourage.

I travelled to Calumpit, a distance of three leagues, in the handsome carriage of an hospitable friend.

[Calumpit.] I reached Calumpit towards evening, just as a procession, resplendent with flags and torches, and melodious with song, was marching round the stately church, whose worthy priest, on the strength of a letter of introduction from Madrid, gave me a most hospitable reception.

When game and corn are plenty, the kettle is always boiling, and they are invariably hospitable and generous, always offering to a visitor such as they have it in their power to give.

He was hospitable too, and had a disconcerting way of inviting guests to luncheon or dinner, and then forgetting that he had done so.

They are always glad to see you, laugh out merrily at you as you pass, and are wonderfully hospitable.

The company, I think, increased, and our entertainment was not only hospitable, but elegant.

And thus time passed on, scarcely a day sped, but Clarence Delwood was seen ascending the steps of Mr. Santon's hospitable mansion.

"I wonder you come," said his hospitable host.

I wrote out a small lexicon of Arabian and Persian words, and took leave of this hospitable family at sunset, on the 8th of July.

So kind and hospitable did they show themselves, that the crew of the boat took the resolution of asking a lodging on shore, by way of relief after their crowded quarters in the boat for the last three nights.

Jimmie is hospitable to the core of his being, and nothing pleased him better than to keep "open house-boat" for the entire floating population of the Thames during Henley week.