In spite, however, of his great and unexpected success, there are traces of weariness in Bunsen’s letters of that time, which show that he was longing for more congenial work.
It was a work thoroughly congenial to himself; and if it required diplomatic skill, certainly no one could have achieved it more expeditiously and successfully than Bunsen.
We may say that Bildad has found it his duty to preach the terrors of God, and the duty appears congenial to him, for he describes with insistence and ornament the end of the godless.
One who was more a poet than a reasoner might indeed halt and stumble as the speaker has done up to this point and find liberty when he reached a theme congenial to his mind.
As a drop is raised upward in the great ocean by the onflowing of the wave, so the individual mind is exalted by the presence and communion of congenial minds moving in the same current.
In the pursuit of truth he sought the society of congenial minds, and found among the cultivated Christians of his day that intellectual sympathy of which he stood in need.
It then remains for each individual to decide what form of pleasure may be most congenial to his temper and desires.
Hodgson happened to have a sitting--an argument of course for telepathy from the friend, but an equal argument for a genuine communication that had to await a congenial sitter.
Scotland, in 1822, Sir Walter undertook thecongenial duty of acting as Master of Ceremonies, which he did to the entire satisfaction of his sovereign and of the nation.
In 1877 he has wandered as far south as New Orleans, where for the first time in his life he finds congenial atmosphere and where he supports himself by reporting for the Times-Democrat.
A delineator of the passions sufficiently accorded with the genius of the poet, and a painter of the choicest design was highly congenial to so elegant a writer.
This sort of painting, always the offspring of a whimsical fancy, was congenial to Mecherino and to Razzi; and both practised it with success.
His function was not strictly legal, nor confined to the copying of processes: it had a broader and wider scope, and was exercised in a more congenial manner.
Miss Binkie seemed to think that I might have selected a more congenial theme; for she presently exhibited symptoms of pettishness, took up a book, and applied herself diligently to the perusal of a popular treatise upon knitting.
Had I consulted my own inclination, I should have preferred the leisure of retirement and the pursuit of those studies so congenial to my taste, to the more stormy and agitating arena of politics.
It is immoral in a man to believe more than he can spontaneously receive as being congenial to his moral and mental nature.
The Greek Mysticism, based on emanation, was not congenial to the Western mind, and the time of the German, with its philosophy of immanence, was not yet.
The word was taken over, with other technical terms of the mysteries, by the Neoplatonists, who found in the existing mysteriosophy a discipline, worship, and rule of life congenial to their speculative views.
It was large, but they werecongenial and greatly enjoyed being together, sharing the same pleasures of sight and sound.
The weather was all that could be desired; they were congenial spirits, and the day passed most delightfully.
Tom's satire had fostered Daisy's too congenial spirit, and he reaped the consequence in the want of repose and sympathy that were driving him from home, and shutting him up within himself.
These utterances were highly complimented by Mr. World, and he said that he was to be congratulated on meeting and associating with such congenial people.
The two congenial companions, proceeding on their way, soon overtook a company of church-members.
Since you desire more congenial Christian fellowship, why not give your attention to the church toward which I lean?
Then the boy or girl whose daily reading may consist of that style of writing will find the Sunday school more congenial to his nature, and he will go there with a bound.
Mr. World and his congenial escort moved on from patient to patient, passing many hundreds who had met with accidents on the Broad Highway.
Miss Church-Member wept tears of gratitude at this proffered kindness, and began to feel that this dark intruder was a friend with a rough exterior but a warm and congenial heart.
The worldly motives seemed to disappear, she looked in Arthur's face and saw, waiting for her, love and tenderness, with such joy of congenial companionship as for the moment eclipsed every other consideration.
Each employs the manner that is most congenial to him; nobody, it may be, gives us the material for elaborating the hierarchy of values that now we need, if this argument is to be extended.
The method of the book, in short, does not arise out of the subject; in treating it Tolstoy simply used the method that was congenial to him, without regarding the story that he had to tell.
Certainly the first thing in life is to secure a happy and congenial home.
And yet, perhaps, in another planet my monad would have frisked and jumped and danced and seesawed with congenial monads, as contentedly and as sillily as do the monads of men and gnats in this alien Vale of Tears.
Jeremy's party were admitted, Gertrude found much that was congenial to her cultivated taste, and she soon was appreciated as she deserved.
The old gentleman, wearied with travels and society not congenial to his years, is pacing up and down his garden walks; his countenance denoting plainly enough how glad he is to find himself once more in his cherished homestead.
But I was working there only on space and devoting the greater part of my time to less congenial tasks.
This opened to me a prospect of congenial work, more agreeable to me than any that a daily newspaper could offer.
True, we have here a more congenial climate, and the grapes will generally ripen better, so that we can in most seasons produce a drinkable wine.
Wherever we find stagnant water let us avoid the neighboring hillsides, for they would not be congenial to our grape-vines.
At one time when things had been going very badly (that is, in all probability to mine uncle's) he found it necessary to seek a more congenial clime.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congenial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
