She used to be quite extraordinarily adroit in the directing of servants, though her manner to them never approached geniality.

One of her instructors was Lenbach, and she is said by some critics to have appropriated his peculiarities as a colorist and his shortcomings in drawing, without attaining his geniality and power of divination.

To me, when I thought of her, which I did only too often, she was Juliet, with perhaps an adjective thrown in; and as Juliet I shall henceforth speak of her (but without the adjective) in this narrative, wherein nothing has been kept back from the readerJuliet's visit, then, had been a great success, for my colleague was really pleased by the attention, and displayed a quiet geniality that filled our visitor with delight.

He longed to be free of all roofs and feel the geniality of the hearth-fire of the planetary system penetrating through his coat, his skin, his flesh, into his very being.

The personal criticism lacks his special geniality, revealing rather a tone which would have perfectly suited Blackwood or the Quarterly.

Yet no tinge of sourness, or jealousy, or cynical disbelief in his more successful contemporaries ever marred the geniality of his political conversation.

These devils, I could see, all wanted to be friendly; but none of them possessed the open, frank geniality of our men.

" Page had regained his geniality.

The new joy in his heart warmed his pulses, lightened his tongue, unlocked a new geniality.

He wanted Philip's geniality and Philip's elasticitythose truly royal qualities, which success obscured and tarnished, but which under the purifying power of adversity recovered their lustre.