The host gave the word and the four set to work, Reuben playing with genuine fire, and his companions sawing away with a dogged precision which made them agreeable enough to listen to, but droll to look at.
It was agreeable to bend condescendingly to his grandmother's attached and faithful servitor, and to be observed.
He surrendered, but it galled him, and the agreeable sense of humor with which he commonly regarded Joseph Beaker failed him for the rest of that afternoon.
The words of the betrothal are agreeable to the following passages: 1 Cor.
After the festival we travelled together to Düsseldorf, and passed a most agreeable day there, playing and discussing music; then I accompanied them yesterday to Cologne.
I cannot deny that when I read the description of their concerts, and some concert bills which were enclosed, and realized the state of the musical world there, I had a most agreeable sensation at my change of position.
I must say my life assumes a most agreeable form here.
But I have the same feeling as formerly, that I shall only remain in this place so long as I feel pleasure and interest in the outward occupations which here seem the most agreeable to me.
So this forms the subject of all our conversations as soon as we see each other, and it is most agreeable to me to be with him for some time, and, if possible, to lead him to my mode of thinking.
Had her heart favoured any individual, it is probable that the answer of Nathalie would have been different; but, as it was, she thought nothing could be more agreeable than to please all, and be the slave of none.
Another, and a more agreeable duty, now devolves upon me,--to express my ardent thanks to all and every to whom this drama is in any way indebted for its brilliant and unparalleled success.
D'Apremont consented; and, having understood that it was necessary to play theagreeable to the old uncle, spent the whole evening at tric-trac.
Being remarkably free and agreeable in their manners, Oliver thought them very nice girls indeed, as there is no doubt they were.
A very agreeable young man showed them over the house.
A girl may be very agreeable and "all that," as people say when they want to cut description short; but it's impossible she can hold a candle to a young widow.
And coming to this conclusion, Mr. Ingelow immediately began making himself agreeable to his fair neighbor.
I purposely kept my engagement secret since my return from Washington in order to give you an agreeable surprise.
But he was really an agreeable companion, could talk about everything I liked to talk about, could play the piano to a charm, and I should have liked him immensely if he had not been my husband, and if he had not worn that odious mask.
Paul was a very agreeable youth indeed, and his sister, Hazel, a most interesting young lady, with very special qualities of talent and learning.
In the different expeditions against Fort Duquesne, the Cherokees, agreeable to treaty, had sent considerable parties of warriors to the assistance of the British army.
When the ponds are stocked with fishes, it becomes an agreeable amusement to catch them, by hawling a sene[*] through the pool.
After all the members had qualified themselves, agreeable to the charter, for the faithful discharge of the trust, a common seal was ordered to be made.
It was much more agreeableto play the gypsy or the tinker than to become either in reality.
Probably he built it to please Nina—or to enshrine Nina; no doubt he found in his daughter a partial and agreeable solution of the difficulty of how to spend the money which he could not help making.
He had hardly exchanged a word with Yvonne throughout the journey, and was hard put to it to maintain an agreeable conversation with Jackson during a five hours' run.
You have too many tongues, and, more than all, the deceitful, forked tongue of the snake, which is not agreeable to the old beloved speech.
And indeed he so dexterously availed himself of all the advantages he possessed to make his society agreeable to her, that she soon began to feel almost uncomfortable without it.
Beauty consists in the excellent and agreeable form, and the just proportion of all its parts.
But enjoyable as tobacco smoking may be, I contend that, to the Asiatic at least, opium smoking is not only a more agreeable but also a far more beneficial practice.
The same characteristics that distinguished the most agreeable novel are equally remarkable in its successors.
Mr. Slade has produced, without any trace of pretension, one of the most sensible and agreeable books of travel we have ever had the pleasure to peruse.
I found the excursion by no means an agreeable one.
Their look and bearing is enough to condemn them immediately, and, moreover, enough to show that the training is by no means agreeable to them.
Bad as it was, it looked more agreeable Goffe and Whalley, than a cross-beam and two halters, or even than apartments in the Tower of London.
A tempest had blown up after midnight, which promised our travellers not at all an agreeable travelling-day.
They give the reader an agreeable feeling of privacy.
This state of turbulence and misery might last for years, till the obnoxious chief had been in his turn despatched, and a more agreeable successor appointed.
These valleys are watered by mountain streams and clothed with dense tropical vegetation, their luxuriant green offering an agreeable contrast to the bareness and aridity of the frowning precipices and sharp peaks which soar above them.
The most agreeable season of the year is between the middle of May and the end of July, when the sea opens.
A man desires to obtain a wife who will perform her household duties well and faithfully, and will be at the same time an agreeable companion, while he often plans to marry into a rich or influential family.
Thus he is secure at all points: for if the religion of the Bible turn out to be true, his disappointment will be an agreeable one; and if it turns out false, he will not be disappointed at all.
I was obliged to wait longer than was agreeable to me before proceeding to that neighbourhood, for the police was searching everywhere, and it would be wearisome to relate to you with what difficulty Christian was concealed.
On the contrary he told me that it was a beautiful country, and that he was sure I should have a very agreeable time.
They found he had an agreeable face, and even a soldierly air with his square shoulders and stocky neck.
These religious dissensions were agreeable to that old spirit of division which at all times has been the evil genius of Africa.
Let the gestures of thy body, be agreeableto the matter of thy discourse.
