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complaisant
1. It was well enough inclined, too, to be complaisant to the king of England
2. And the fact was that everything in Eisenbaum was of an infinite exquisiteness, its cobbled streets, its houses with sight to the sea, its wavy hillsides, its greenish avenues, its splendid sceneries, its rainbow-colored twilights, its wavy little streams, its complaisant lake, its irreverent ocean, everything seemed molded by the meticulous hands of a God who polished much especially the day of its creation
3. Americus directed a complaisant look to me
4. Is he getting too old for the job at hand, did he get too complaisant? Had the easy life in Arrowhead blunted his ability to function properly as a law-man? Maybe if they had called the Millers sooner and he had gone with Brad, three lives would have been spared and that savage monster would already be back in custody where he belongs
5. Was her energy inexhaustible? Would she take a shower to get his smell off her body? Was Teresa as complaisant as he was or were there scenes of
6. that the complaisant Mrs
7. How did your father receive him, Albert? It is necessary that we should be more than complaisant to the count
8. This was a signal for preparation, that the complaisant Mrs
9. I said this with just a Hint of Mockery but then fell before him in a Curtsey so complaisant that all Mockery was eras’d
10. Not even Jeannette—for whom his ardor had cooled somewhat, since he found out who her brother was—nor the normally complaisant Nathalie would whisper a single tale out of school
11. He evidently tried to please her: he was gallant, he was attentive, he was something like what he had been to her cousins: he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her tranquillity as he had cheated them; and whether he might not have some concern in this necklace, she could not be convinced that he had not, for Miss Crawford, complaisant as a sister, was careless as a woman and a friend
12. He evidently tried to please her: he was gallant, he was attentive, he was something like what he had been to her cousins: he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her tranquillity as he had cheated them; and whether he might not have some concern in this necklace—she could not be convinced that he had not, for Miss Crawford, complaisant as a sister, was careless as a woman and a friend
13. When the young dog began to grow up, Bull was remarkably complaisant with him
14. And at Harfleur he is even more complaisant: