His tone was genial and persuasive, so kindly that Fishpingle wrestled with the temptation to “creep” and “crane.
He advanced a couple of steps, glanced about him with a genial smile, and addressed the obsequious Alfred.
Run along, my little maid,” he said, in his most genial voice.
Candelaria and that genialrunaway John Carrickfergus make me think so.
At the War Office I was introduced by the Consul to his friend, Colonel Arocena, a genial old gentleman with a bald head and a cigarette between his lips.
Yet in this sparsely settled country, with its bountiful soil and genial climate, there was apparently no place for me, a muscular and fairly intelligent young man, who only asked to be allowed to work to live!
My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright, Nor smoke nor ashes soil thy grateful flame; Thy temperate splendour cheers the gloom of night, Thy genial heat enlivens the chill'd frame.
Where wont the hospitable fire In cheering volumes to aspire, And with its genial warmth the pilgrim's woes assuage.
In his Walk to Wachusett there are touches ofgenial friendliness with the simple, sincere country folk, and evidence that he was heartily welcome by them.
Despite his genial comradeship, the more intimate, the more delicate experiences of friendship are not to be found in his company.
And so on, in a vein of courageous cheer, spoken with the big, obtrusive, genial egotism that always meets us in Whitman's writings.
That is why we welcome the big, genial sanity of Walt Whitman, for he has about him the rankness and sweetness of the Earth.
The incomparable Denys, with his favourite cry, "Le diable est mort," is a splendid study in genial vagrancy.
It was true that Doctor Churchill possessed a frank and boyish face, wearing ordinarily an exceedingly genial expression; but the friendly gray eyes were capable of turning steely upon provocation, and they turned that way now.
It would have been a sour temper which could have resisted his genial greeting.
The soil of Orkney is better, and its air more genial than Shetland; but it is far less interesting, and possesses none of the wild and peculiar character of the more northern archipelago.
So too would the genial Elia, who obeyed his own precept of "give and ask no questions.
He gave us his customary warm greeting and, although in extremely feeble health, was as sweet and genial in spirit and as entertaining in conversation as ever.
By his mother's side they laid him, in a cemetery overlooking the Hudson and the valley of Sleepy Hollow, a region made forever famous by the genial pen of Irving.
The smile that lay on his genial face like a mask was the smile of a consciousness that he was making himself intensely pleasant, and adapting his conversation to his company in a quite phenomenal way.
He made a very good dinner, was genial and even witty in a manner befitting his years and station.
Signor Bruno surpassed himself in the relation of innocent little tales, told with a true southern "verve" and spirit, while Fred Farrar's genial laugh filled in the interstices reliably.
The days he spent with the Rangers were days of pride and pleasure to us, for we not only saw his greatness as a soldier, but the bearing of the man was so modest, so genial and lovable, that every one was greatly attached to him.
And he was so sensible and genial that soon there was a different feeling between the two men.
You will find there good beds, good food, and a genial host.
He was there always genial and friendly, kept up his acquaintance with the old residents, and thoroughly enjoyed his association with them.
This lamented statesman had also a genial temper, which won for him a host of friends.
The warm, soft, genial side of Mr. Chandler's nature was unveiled in social life and most of all in the domestic circle.
As they walked, Mr. Abbey's habitual assurance returned, and he directed part of his genial flow of conversation to Miss Benton.
They are charmingly discursive, often witty, and always full of a genial sympathy with humanity and the significant facts of life.
Near Irvington is Sunnyside, long the home of the famous andgenial Washington Irving.
The genial Irving, never at a loss for a reason for the names of places along the river, tells how the good housewives named it Tarrytown because of their spouses' propensity to linger in the village tavern on market days.
The genial historian supports this statement by testimony.
When ev'ry infant flower, that wept in night, Lifts its chill head soft glowing with a tear, Expands its tender blossom to the light, And gives its incense to the genial air.
The travellers, as they descended, gradually, exchanged the region of winter for the genial warmth and beauty of spring.
He seems to have been a kindly but a weak and impulsive man, who however had the merit of obtaining and deserving his son's affection by genial sympathy and kindly treatment.
Fate was hard on the kindly epicurean, who after his long toil had made his bed in the sun, on which he was preparing to lie down in genial content till the end came.
While genial in disposition, he could not be called either mirthful or jovial, and so could neither easily turn any unpleasant incident off with a joke or be turned off by one.
It was then that she had time to note the changes wrought in Mrs. Eveleth; and it was like finding winter where she expected no more than the first genial touch of autumn.
In the mean time she was free to watch, with sad eyes and sadder spirit, the great city, reversing the processes of nature, awaken from the torpor of the genial months into its winter life.
According to the calendar this is Natal's summer, when hills and veldt, refreshed by genial showers, should be green with luxurious growth of young grass, or brightened by a profusion of brilliant wild flowers.
Had that genial and most popular officer followed the almost invariable practice of his everyday life, there would have been an end of the man to whom more than to anybody else we owe the timely retirement from Dundee.
Hoggson, a gentleman of infinite jest, genial and persuasive; a great mixer and constant worker, proved a very useful member of the commission in diving after facts and making notes thereof.
Sague, at one time vice-president of The American Locomotive Company; is a technically educated man, genial and companionable, and was a useful personage on the commission.
He was described about this time: five feet eight inches high, broad forehead, chestnut hair and of very genial aspect.
But without an undue preponderance of heart he was good-natured; he would pat a chubby little cheek, if he passed it in the street, and he would talk in a genial and hearty way to those beneath him in life.
He was one of the best-hearted men that ever breathed, when things went according to his mind; blest with every social charm, genial wit, and the surprising products of a brisk and poetical memory.
