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agreeable
1. The applause at the end of the piece brings me back to reality fast, but it was an agreeable little daydream
2. He seems to be a very agreeable person, and the subject interests me a lot; moreover, the lecture is taking place at a centre of Buddhism which is only some metres away from Aphrodite's house!
3. The lama proves to be quite agreeable and interesting, he answers all questions carefully and diplomatically, he surely knows how to win his audience over to his views
4. She tasted it and was quite agreeable
5. ‘Yes, but generally speaking there is some form of work which is agreeable
6. When something is alike it is considered to have agreeable
7. But I found an excellent use for these grapes; and that was, to cure or dry them in the sun, and keep them as dried grapes or raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, wholesome and agreeable to eat when no grapes could be had
8. Not only grain has become somewhat cheaper, but many other things, from which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food, have become a great deal cheaper
9. The great improvements in the coarser manufactories of both linen and woollen cloth furnish the labourers with cheaper and better clothing; and those in the manufactories of the coarser metals, with cheaper and better instruments of trade, as well as with many agreeable and convenient pieces of household furniture
10. become, in its advanced state, their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure
11. agreeable that he’d decided to cut his day’s journey short
12. As they are less liable to rust and impurity, they can more easily be kept clean; and the utensils, either of the table or the kitchen, are often, upon that account, more agreeable when made of them
13. "I'd love to have you stay here and I'll certainly be agreeable to continue cuddling with you, but I'm pretty full from the feast I had up there
14. The idea of a pure reason could be agreeable, but – as
15. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens
16. This supposition will not, I believe, be found anywhere agreeable to the truth ; but it is the most favourable to the opinion which we are going to examine; and, even upon this supposition, it is utterly impossible that the lowering of the value of silver could have the smallest tendency to lower the rate of interest
17. } To let a farm in this manner, was quite agreeable to the usual economy of, I believe, the sovereigns of all the different countries of Europe, who used frequently to let whole manors to all the tenants of those manors, they becoming jointly and severally answerable for the whole rent ; but in return being allowed to collect it in their own way, and to pay it into the king's exchequer by the hands of their own bailiff, and being thus altogether freed from the insolence of the king's officers; a circumstance in those days regarded as of the greatest importance
18. The outcome could have been decidedly less agreeable for us
19. They give a new value to the surplus part of the rude produce, by saving the expense of carrying it to the water-side, or to some distant market ; and they furnish the cultivators with something in exchange for it that is either useful or agreeable to them, upon easier terms than they could have obtained it before
20. The former pay in a species of money, of which the intrinsic value is always the same, and exactly agreeable to the standard of their respective mints ; the latter is a species of money, of which the intrinsic value is continually varying, and is almost always more or less below that standard
21. Nothing could be more agreeable to the spirit of that system than a sort of bounty upon the production of money, the very thing which, it supposes, constitutes the wealth of every nation
22. Everyone seemed to find the situation agreeable
23. She received an agreeable surprise then for she discovered he had managed to knock her hand away and had unzipped his fly
24. Such sacrifices, though they might frequently be agreeable to the interest, are always mortifying to the pride of every nation; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, they are always contrary to the private interest of the governing part of it, who would thereby be deprived of the disposal of many places of trust and profit, of many opportunities of acquiring wealth and distinction, which the possession of the most turbulent, and, to the great body of the people, the most unprofitable province, seldom fails to afford
25. That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere
26. As their gratification, too, how agreeable soever it may be to certain characters, is not attended with any real or permanent advantage, it is, in the greater part of men, commonly restrained by prudential considerations
27. It might be more agreeable to the company, that their own servants and dependants should have either the pleasure of wasting, or the profit of embezzling, whatever surplus might remain, after paying the proposed dividend of eight per cent
28. The teachers of each little sect, finding themselves almost alone, would be obliged to respect those of almost every other sect; and the concessions which they would mutually find in both convenient and agreeable to make one to another, might in time, probably reduce the doctrine of the greater part of them to that pure and rational religion, free from every mixture of absurdity, imposture, or fanaticism, such as wise men have, in all ages of the world, wished to see established ; but such as positive law has, perhaps, never yet established, and probably never will establish in any country ; because, with regard to religion, positive law always has been, and probably always will be, more or less influenced by popular superstition and enthusiasm
29. The latter part seems never to have had any effects but what were perfectly agreeable
30. Where the church benefices are all nearly equal, none of them can be very great; and this mediocrity of benefice, though it may be, no doubt, carried too far, has, however, some very agreeable effects
31. It is perfectly agreeable to the other three
32. agreeable, crisp white clouds with plenty of blue between them
33. If she seemed agreeable, I advised them to approach her cautiously
34. I hope you will find it agreeable
35. I would say that would lead to a very agreeable treaty (for once) to your electorate and will change the face of Africa for the aid will be used where most needed for everyone involved including you in times of emergency
36. But being back in civvy life was actually not as agreeable as we had expected
37. The agreeable thing was we could jump whatever way we pleased, just as long as we held our feet nicely together to protect our crown jewels
38. A child‘s maturity level is determined in part by that child‘s (incipient) understanding of things that are factual or real (or possible) in contrast with ideas considered to be a product of wishful thinking or make-believe that are otherwise agreeable in themselves provided that the (rational) limits and conditions of the imagination are properly outlined
39. The fair was taking place at this large old barge station right by the riverside, where the smell of cotton seed oil mingled with whatever happened to be floating in the river, and the resulting odor was less than agreeable
40. As a result, Colling found Thanksgiving, his first holiday with the 40th Infantry, to be most agreeable
41. He knew his smell was less than agreeable but that was understandable after going on for more than a week without bathing
42. all,” replied the softly spoken agreeable voice on the other end
43. 50 And when all the men of the city heard the words of Shechem and his father Hamor, then all the men of their city were agreeable to this proposal, and they obeyed to be circumcised, for Shechem and his father Hamor were greatly esteemed by them, being the princes of the land
44. 96 And she continued to repeat and utter these words, and Jacob heard her words and they were agreeable to him
45. With an unpleasant “nose” sign, Roger made him understand that Bulgaria was not an agreeable place to be
46. 50 And when all the men of the city heard the words of Shechem and his father Hamor then all the men of their city were agreeable to this proposal and they obeyed to be circumcised for Shechem and his father Hamor were greatly esteemed by them being the princes of the land
47. 96 And she continued to repeat and utter these words and Jacob heard her words and they were agreeable to him
48. Wherefore put on cheerfulness which always is agreeable and acceptable to God and rejoice in it
49. "And they who returned their branches two-thirds withered and one-third green are those that were faithful indeed; but after acquiring wealth and becoming distinguished amongst the heathen they clothed themselves with great pride and became lofty-minded and deserted the truth and did not cleave to the righteous but lived with the heathen and this way of life became more agreeable to them
50. If therefore this be agreeable to you Father Paul I take him and go