There were shooting-parties and battues; there was a plenty of balls and entertainments at the hospitable Court; the society was generally good; the theatre excellent; and the living cheap.
She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day, she said.
It was with great difficulty that he could be restrained from putting on his cocked hat and tights to wait upon the English consul at the Free City of Judenstadt, when that hospitable functionary asked our travellers to dinner.
Many a glass of wine have we all of us drunk, I have very little doubt, hob-and-nobbing with the hospitable giver and wondering how the deuce he paid for it.
The king was stern and cruel looking; and, though he put on as polite and hospitable an expression as he could, Jason did not like his face a whit better than that of the wicked King Pelias, who dethroned his father.
Mr. Lindsey, drawing the reluctant guest over his hospitable threshold.
Clarence could have wished they had not treated his first hospitable effort quite so formally, but as they stepped from the coach with unbending faces he led them, a little frightened, into the bar-room.
Nothing in the world could have pleased the hospitable country women more than the parties that Doctor Tom had been improvising for the amusement of the singer girl.
And the cheerful company assembled around the hospitable Mayberry board put into practice the knife and fork by-law of the Circle with hearty good will.
It scarcely looks hospitable to leave your friend at an hotel, when you know we have plenty of room and welcome.
When we last met-for we have met three or four times, if I am not mistaken--we were more familiar with those words than good Mrs Barclay's hospitable inquiry.
A few days afterwards I went by rail to Contocook where I was met by Mr. Anderson, who took me out to his hospitable home a couple of miles from the town.
For many a year this rude log cabin was the centre of attraction, and a hospitable stopping place for nearly all the settlers of Vasa.
On reaching Calcutta, the young Cornet presented himself at the hospitable Bungalow of the Bartons, and was by them cordially received.
Mr. Terry was at home with Coristine, describing the ceremony; and somebody at the Halbert's hospitabletable was longing for a chance to replace him.
With such conversation they beguiled the way till they stood at the gate of Bridesdale, and entered the hospitable mansion, there to be received by the odious Grinstun man.
Still, it was very pleasant to be on such friendly terms with the Squire of the neighbourhood, the master of hospitable Bridesdale; and Miss Carmichael's uncle.
Such is the dish so much relished by our hospitable Tartar families.
Thousands of enemies were in a few minutes changed to hospitable friends.
We retired to our hospitable abode, and I went to sleep; but the mad Zouave was anywhere and everywhere.
A very large proportion of the acquaintances you can make will be agreeable if you can bring enough knowledge and a sufficiently hospitable spirit to your relations with them.
There is not a more hospitable sea than that which bathes its shores.
The people of the house, an old man and two women, sat staring at them without making any hospitable demonstrations.
Luckily he was a truly hospitable man: nowhere, but at his own board, could he have kept his temper under control.
It's the most hospitable place on earth, this, but I thought it a pity to waste a really fine hunger on the inevitable ham and eggs, so I waited for dinner.
He spread a sheet of canvas on the table, thereby confounding all Gribton's hospitable manoeuvring.
Admiral Mitchell of the British navy, and crossed the seas for this hospitable land of Britain.
That little household of three, that delightful trio who so thoroughly appreciated each other were charming everywhere, but only quite perfect when taken together within the hospitable walls that enshrined so true a home.
Among themselves this rule of silence and the poorest diet is rigidly enforced, and as the traveller left their hospitable doors he 'blessed God that he was free to wander, free to hope, and free to love.
She had heard of these things in detail only ten minutes before, from the girl's parents, but her hospitable soul had needed but a moment to swallow and assimilate them.
Mrs. Lang was an admirable cook and a liberal and hospitable hostess, which was an added reason for riding eighty miles.
They came on the fresh track of a buffalo two hours after their departure, that clear warm morning, from Lang's hospitable cabin.
Roosevelt rode ahead of the caravan, spending the first night with the Langs, who were always friendly and hospitable and full of good talk, and rejoining Merrifield and "the outfit" on the Keogh trail a few miles westward next morning.
Even in this more hospitable class, the chevaliers were not all equally favored.
Turning his steed up a narrow path of the forest, he sought this sanctuary, in hopes of finding a hospitable shelter for the night.
No doubt my indulgent reader has often heard of the exodus of many thousands of colored people from the Southern States to the generous and hospitable State of Kansas.
St. Paul advises us to be hospitable and entertain strangers, "for some have thereby entertained angels unawares," he continues to say.
McKenzie said grace; Mary and Margaret Gibson acted as waiters, and we had one of the best suppers that were ever served up even in hospitable Canada.
It was hardly four miles to Sindphul by the road at the foot of the hills on the plain; and they set out, after their hospitable hosts had insisted upon their taking an early meal.
Nor would the hospitable representative of the Boorhanpoor saint allow the Khan's party to pass his village without entertainment.
