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Example sentences for "being agreeable"

  • Mrs Grove was bent on being agreeable, to all present, and she thought "the economical dodge" was as good as any, considering her audience.

  • There is something--a feeling that she is not sincere--that would spoil all her attempts at being agreeable, as far as I am concerned.

  • Such a representation could not fail of being agreeable to a prince, who, at this juncture, stood in need of an extraordinary cordial.

  • This was first most noticeable in American women, to whom the art of dress seemed to come by nature, and the art of being agreeable to be easily acquired.

  • It is supposed that when we have a leisure class we shall not only make a better showing in these respects, but we shall be as agreeable--having time to devote to the art of being agreeable--as the English are.

  • What made a person desired in any company was the talent of being agreeable, talent of some sort, not the ability to give a costly dinner or a big ball.

  • Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen.

  • After a few minutes of entire silence between them, John Knightley began with-- "I never in my life saw a man more intent on being agreeable than Mr. Elton.

  • In this remark of Doctor Johnson's lies the art of being agreeable.

  • Moreover, one of the difficulties of being agreeable is that the apprehension of offending and the small hope of pleasing destroy all captivation of manner.

  • Such are; the difficulties of being agreeable.

  • To remain young is one of the difficulties of being agreeable.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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