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No-one that knew her mistook this for either weakness or friendliness
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I appreciated her friendliness but it made me incredibly shy
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It has nothing to do with your level of living, your influence, your friendliness, your celebrity, your rank in society, the apartment you live in, the value of the car you drive or anybody's assessment about you
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I meant to restrain myself from anything other than friendliness, until I knew for sure that she wasn’t still hurting over Izzy’s mother’s death
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” He grinned in friendliness
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But she put it down to his friendliness and good manners, not wanting to exclude her from the conversation
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Wasting no time he returned this friendliness with a head shot
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He did not feel comfortable pushing his way into the extended family who had not really received him with much friendliness
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In both towns, the populace displays an identical warm, open friendliness that sets the mood of the visitor for relaxation
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ing at me with an almost human expression of friendliness
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She was bareheaded and her golden hair--hair of a warm gold, "molasses taffy" colour as Di Blythe had said--was pinned in sleek, close coils over her head; she had large, tranquil, blue eyes that always seemed full of friendliness, a high white forehead and a finely shaped face
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was an example of the congeniality and friendliness that is
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the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love
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Prospective customers will appreciate your openness and friendliness
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It was true, David found, yet the friendliness was evident without a common
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Local people expressed a polite interest in David’s new housekeeper, accepting her for what she was, behaving with friendliness towards her, but otherwise leaving her alone
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“Actually, there was a manner about my mother and the other mothers of Shinosa Valley that the lasses didn’t have, a mother’s way, a kind of no-nonsense friendliness that I recognized in you immediately, and so I knew you had children
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The butcher’s wife recalled the friendliness of the delivery man and how he distributed business matters
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stupid cat refuses to even feign friendliness towards the children, who do everything in their
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With her, he behaved particularly pleasantly, answering her questions with geniality and friendliness, fact that confirmed me that his distaste was directed exclusively to my person
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-I guess you are not leaving without saying goodbye - I said with friendliness
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The friendliness, honesty, hospitality and generosity of North African Arabs amazes me still
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Whereas I relied on charm and friendliness for survival, he, having none of either, had learned to be combative and competitive and managed to hold his own, arriving in Aswan only slightly battered
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The morning greeting was more effusive than normal and Chris was just a little taken aback by the display of friendliness
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The friendliness of people who he met along the way and seemed to have time to direct him reminded him of other times
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with you," said the creditor with a note of real friendliness
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8 Jesus and the apostles remained that night in Matthew's house, and as the people went to their homes, they spoke of but one thing: the goodness and friendliness of Jesus
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It consists of love, friendliness, generosity, understanding, etc
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She beheld in the Master's face the countenance of an upright and holy man, but she mistook friendliness for commonplace familiarity, and she misinterpreted his figure of speech as a form of making advances to her
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His narrowed eyes held the Yuetshi and in those slitted orbs he read neither friendliness nor gratitude; he saw only a fire as alien and hostile as that which burns in the eyes of a tiger
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You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul
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And no amount of piety or creedal loyalty can compensate for the absence in the life experience of kingdom believers of that spontaneous, generous, and sincere friendliness which characterizes the spirit-born sons of the living God
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trainability, innate friendliness, and willingness to please
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obvious one, however, would be her level of friendliness towards you
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The dark eyes stared at him through thick, pop-bottle glasses, as if studying his very soul, though there was a certain friendliness to them that was often characteristic of elderly individuals who had lived long and experienced nearly everything, thus qualifying them to offer advice on any subject
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holiday on the Gold Coast, all this friendliness was for Vincent’s alibi
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Most of the friendliness was due to public relations, more than it was just a considerate gathering of settled people
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“Welcome, my friend,” she said in an attempt at friendliness that instead came across as patronage
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His talks; his songs; his discussions; his suggestions; his friendliness; and everything that he had shared with me, all were appearing again and again in front of my eyes
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There was no doubt a correlation between celebrity friendliness and the demands placed upon the celebrity by the fan base, but it didn’t mean that celebrities were by nature rude or inconsiderate or spoiled, as myths tended to paint them
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Encouraged by his friendliness, we went over with the camera
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All aspects between two and three degrees of exactitude symbolize friendliness – "the expanding element of simple co-operation in being
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Spring and his work, it is extreme ease and friendliness
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of friendliness and reverence
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Anne paused, surprised at the friendliness and cordiality that her new servants were
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Add to this, the circumstances surrounding the way they initially met, and the wonderful way her family had treated them - not deferentially or reverently as most people did - but with normal friendliness and common courtesy…(not to mention the incredibly caring way Kathy’s mother had befriended and fed them)…it was little wonder that he and the rest of the guys had been talking almost nonstop about them to Jan and a few others, as well as amongst themselves, ever since!
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As this exchange took place, Kathy was reassured and put at ease by the warmth and friendliness in the other woman’s eyes and tone of voice, for she sensed that Janice was someone she could easily become friends with, given time
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This friendliness surprised her repeatedly
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The neighbour is, as I told you, extremely friendly, so is his wife, though I do not set such store by her friendliness as do by his, for, frankly, I find men are best; and they have a son who is an _Assessor_ in Berlin
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Frau von Lindbergh would take me to her heart, think me distinguished where now she thinks me odd, think me witty where now she thinks me bold, listen to my speeches, laugh at my sallies, be interested in my gardening and in my efforts to live without meat; but here I am, burning, I hope, with charity, with love for my neighbors, with ready sympathy, eager friendliness, desire to be of use, and it all avails me nothing because my name is Schmidt
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I feel as full of friendliness as a brimming cup
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There is no easy friendliness for us, no careless talk, no happy go-as-you-please and naturalness
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She was very much at home with the image of him she had built up in her heart, encouraged by his gentle friendliness
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She smiled back at me with the utmost friendliness, and asked me again whether I did not think it glorious
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Life was a thing full of friendliness and happy affection; and love, anyhow on the woman's side, was not a bit necessary
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Johann explained--he was a shabby man, grown grey and frayed, Ingeborg supposed, in service--that the previous stuff did not seem to have caught its train, and Herr Dremmel went off to make anxious inquiries of the stationmaster while Ingeborg stood smiling with an excessive friendliness at Johann to make up for her want of words, and wondering how her luggage would get on to a carriage already so much occupied by sacks
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At the end Ditti said the closing grace as her mother had taught her, Robertlet having officiated at the opening one, and they both stood behind their chairs with their eyes shut while she expressed gratitude in German to the dear Saviour who had had the friendliness to be their guest on that occasion, and having reached the Amen, in which Robertlet joined, they did not fall upon each other and fight, as other unshepherded children filled with meat and pudding might have done, but left the room in a sober file and went to the kitchen and requested the servant Rosa, who was the one who would have been their nurse if they had had one, to accompany them to their bedroom and see that they cleaned their teeth
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At the end of his second week in Kökensee Ingram found himself increasing the number of his adjectives and images and comparisons, growing almost eagerly poetical, for the force of proximity and want of anyone else to talk to or to think about was beginning to work, and it was becoming the one thing that seemed to him to matter to get self-consciousness into her frank eyes, something besides or instead of that glow of admiring friendliness
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“Then let us go outside!” said the black man with overdone friendliness and solemnly marched out of the saloon
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He was friendly enough, but that friendliness was so constant that it obviously could have no meaning
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There was a warmth to her and an easy friendliness that she did not reveal when she was around her father
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Of course there were far away places including Australia where LIT-TISSUE had had its germination, but on his return and on occasions since, while Fred had sung the praises of the friendliness and openness of the local people, as well as the attraction of the country and its climate, he had not indicated any desire to move there permanently
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with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and
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The Inuits did it with constant good humor and friendliness
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They usually resided in the house and consequently friendliness developed between the boarders and the girls
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The lower classes of Europe were getting too close to an international entente of friendliness between all nations
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I bring this up because we passed through a few villages and the friendliness and hospitality we encountered there touched us
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There is also poverty, ignorance, friendliness, dirt, beauty, ugliness, and since the list can go on and on, I end on a positive note: and sunshine and blue skies
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Stone-faced and without his usual friendliness, Kifter appeared
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“My apologies…Miss Rose,” he said with polite friendliness and pulled out her chair for her
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Stryver, preparing him with ostentatious friendliness for the disclosure he was about to make, "because I know you don't mean half you say; and if you meant it all, it would be of no importance
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He glanced timidly at Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud countenance wore at that moment an expression of such gratitude and friendliness, such
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Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the soul loves, Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the
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For the next two days I went about amongst my fellow men, who welcomed me with the utmost consideration and friendliness, but unanimously derided my fears of a war
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We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the American Ambassador (who, all along, interested himself in our fate) for his exertions on our behalf, his invaluable assistance and the real friendliness of his reception in Vienna
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It was essentially just that; quietly, unobtrusively, with a regard for the independence of the men who sought its shelter ashore, and with no ulterior aims behind that effective friendliness
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the Caliph's friendliness toward him, and now my task being accomplished I was
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Gallaher was only patronising him by his friendliness just as he was patronising Ireland by his visit
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He was extremely nervous and extremely jealous of other tenors and he covered his nervous jealousy with an ebullient friendliness
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The guarded glance of half solicitude half curiosity augmented by friendliness which he gave at Stephen's at present morose expression of features did not throw a flood of light, none at all in fact on the problem as to whether he had let himself be badly bamboozled to judge by two or three lowspirited remarks he let drop or the other way about saw through the affair and for some reason or other best known to himself allowed matters to more or less
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Sergey Ivanovitch met his brother with the smile of chilly friendliness he always had for everyone, and
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When Levin darted up to Kitty her face was no longer stern; her eyes looked at him with the same sincerity and friendliness, but Levin fancied that in her friendliness there was a certain note of deliberate composure
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The thought that if he were held in check by her tone of quiet friendliness he would end by going back again without deciding anything came into his mind, and he resolved to make a struggle against it
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But in spite of this caution, Vronsky often saw the child’s intent, bewildered glance fixed upon him, and a strange shyness, uncertainty, at one time friendliness, at another, coldness and reserve, in the boy’s manner to him; as though the child felt that between this man and his mother there existed some important bond, the significance of which he could not understand
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Whatever faults Levin had, there was not a trace of hypocrisy in him, and so the children showed him the same friendliness that they saw in their
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A vague sense of the order into which his affairs had been brought, a vague recollection of the friendliness and flattery of Serpuhovskoy, who had considered him a man that was needed, and most of all, the anticipation of the interview before him—all blended into a general, joyous sense of life
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once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity
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With Mrs Champion's cold eyes watching behind her sunglasses, there was little Rex could do at Cap Ferrat except establish a friendliness which could be widened later
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This was Southern chivalry and gallantry for you! Maybe those women who carried their heads so high and snubbed all attempts at friendliness wouldn’t be so uppity, now that everyone knew where their husbands spent their time when they were supposed to be at political meetings
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It was not difficult to gain a foothold of friendliness with
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Now she felt a curious warm friendliness and content
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Their friendliness won her still farther away from herself, their lively spirits were contagious, and she became almost gay
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Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud countenance wore at that moment an expression of such gratitude and friendliness, such complete and unlooked‐for respect (in place of the sneering looks and ill‐disguised contempt he had expected), that it threw him into greater confusion than if he had been met with abuse
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Farebrother met him with the same friendliness as before
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On the whole his surmises, in addition to what he knew of the fact, increased his friendliness and tolerance towards Ladislaw, and made him understand the vacillation which kept him at Middlemarch after he had said that he should go away
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He said nothing and waited; daily, he began the mute struggle of friendliness, the silent war of patience
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turned an inquiring look, were so used to the staircase that they did not guess the cause of his amazement, and took the glance for an expression of friendliness, which they answered by a smile that made him desperate
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'If this nice friendliness would spread