84 examples of sociability in sentences

Us two ain't much on the sociability end, but we've played many a lucky card fifty-fifty.

It was just another of that young preacher's sociability schemes, and there was no end to 'em, seemed like to him.

Mr. Benfield was happy to see under his roof again the best of the trio of Jarvises he had known, and something like sociability prevailed.

Looking from one to the other in surprise, she exclaimed, "Very sociable, upon my word; how long has your lordship honored my house with your presence, and have you taken the liberty to introduce yourself to Mrs. Wilson and Miss Moseley?" "Sociability and ease are the fashion of the day.

Had he met with fondness in his parents, or sociability in his playfellows, these fancies would have left him as he grew into life.

Mrs. Trevor Harrison, the woman whom he had selected as chaperon for Virginia, more than once displayed some curiosity, when talking to her charge, as to this sudden change in the habits of a man whose lack of sociability had become almost proverbial.

Sociality N. sociality, sociability, sociableness &c adj.; social intercourse; consociation^; intercourse, intercommunity^; consortship^, companionship, comradeship; clubbism^; esprit de corps.

visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c (sociability) 892; dance attendance on &c (servility) 886; pay attentions to; do homage to &c (respect) 928. prostrate oneself &c (worship) 990. give one's duty to, send one's duty to, &c n.. render polite &c adj.; polish, civilize, humanize.

It is not their want of sociability that is to blame.

As a general rule, it may be said that a man's sociability stands very nearly in inverse ratio to his intellectual value: to say that "so and so" is very unsociable, is almost tantamount to saying that he is a man of great capacity.

Speaking generally, sociability stands in inverse ratio with age.

[Footnote 1: This restricted, or, as it were, entrenched kind of sociability has been dramatically illustrated in a playwell worth readingof Moratin's, entitled El Café o sea la Comedia Nuova (The Cafe or the New Comedy), chiefly by one of the characters, Don Pedro and especially in the second and third scenes of the first act.]

For them Sunday is truly a day of rest, recreation, and sociability.

It's to begin as if we meant to have them all round, for the frolic and the sociability; and besides that, we'll steal all we can.

We met McTavish, the host of the hotel, an aging planter, who kept his public house as an adjunct of his farm, and more for sociability than gain.

ETTERCAP, an ill-tempered person, who mars sociability.

It was not a time for sociability, either personal or epistolary.

While her time was too valuable to be wasted in a general sociability, she yet found leisure for an extensive acquaintance, for a kindly interest in all her neighbors, and for Christian work of many kinds.

He seems to have had a proportionate impulse to play, much curiosity and sociability, and in addition there was a certain craving within himI grieve to sayfor more to eat.

"There is no sociability in that.

I have always noticed that tea promotes sociability haven't you, Mr. Yardsley? Yardsley.

He was not an athlete; he worked just enough to secure a pass-degree, and spent his time at Cambridge in mild sociability.

Some new plan of pleasure and sociability is constantly courting our adoption.

We were all very chatty; even Eliza resumed, in a degree, her former sociability.

Mr. Bainrothe, who had by this time glided back into his old grooves of apparent sociability in our household, accompanied us, and did all in his power, it seemed, to promote our enjoyment and success.

84 examples of  sociability  in sentences