And he extended his hand with that ready frankness and bonhomie which are always a part of the Italian temperament, and were especially so of his.
Parties will not be wanting, monsieur le cardinal," replied Monsieur, with a bonhomie worthy of one tradesman congratulating another.
It is this beneficent spirit which gives such an air of bonhomie to Scott's humor throughout all his works.
The President of the United States used to send for him and consult him, because he wanted no office; he knew men, and it was a relief to talk with a liberal rich man of so much bonhomie who wanted nothing.
It needed all his courage and good-temper and bonhomie to carry him through.
I never knew a more prepossessing man; his bonhomiewas infectious.
And now, as it were in an instant, he had cast both restraint and fear aside, put on his ancient bonhomie and given full rein to that natural affection of which he was very capable.
His very bonhomie and good-fellowship had hitherto been his surest defence against discovery.
When he looked up again he could not see the Major very well, but could distinctly hear the truculent bonhomie of his voice.
Mr. Lavender saw that he had a mouth which seemed to have a bitt in it; several hairs on a finely rounded head; and an air of efficient and truculent bonhomie tanned and wrinkled by the weather.
His address has all the captivating bonhomie which is the leading feature of his poetry, and, indeed, of his whole moral nature.
I found them very agreeable, with that easy bonhomie and lack of stiffness that distinguishes the best Americans.
FN#64] He has all the bonhomieof the Cairene and will do a kindness whenever he can.
Moreover he received with bonhomie all the varied qualifications which were brought upon him by his strange position of a man who was no longer king, no longer proscribed, and yet was not a citizen.
The men who trembled under the sombre and hypocritical Domitian, regretted the wild gaiety and bonhomie of Nero, and each spring, for years after his death, flowers were laid by unknown hands upon his grave.
Educated at the court of her grandfather, Ferdinand, King of Naples, who carried bonhomie and familiarity to exaggeration, and lived in the company of peasants and lazzaroni, she had a horror of pretension and conceit.
