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convivial
1. The prospect of a convivial hostelry with decent beer and warm
2. The three of them in her absence had constructed a convivial triangle and she was now at a tangent
3. The usually convivial place was quiet, save the sound of weeping far off in the house
4. The Afghan president called a meeting of all concerned and the assembly, smiling and convivial, declared a peaceful end to hostilities
5. following the evening services were light and convivial
6. Having taken possession of his wallet he gained much satisfaction from the cordiality of the afternoon; until just as he was ready to depart the convivial Sunday barbecue was transformed into an extraordinary general meeting of the Anti Anton Clegg Foundation, all by coincidence
7. He could be a wonderfully convivial host, generous with his food, drink and intellect
8. Every second Sunday she descends the mountain at sunset, the door-key in her pocket, and dances all night in some convivial _Gasthof_ in the town, coming up again at sunrise or later according to the amount of fun she was having
9. I had been at their house on several occasions with Angela and she was always the perfect hostess, convivial and flirty
10. camped where we chose and sat by driftwood fires and chewed the cud of convivial
11. cordials to keep up the convivial tone of his spirits) again threw me into the
12. Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were
13. He looked at the archers, and recognized many of them: fat Dick Brewer, randy Edward Butcher, convivial Paul Bell, grumpy Bill Watkin – timid, law-abiding citizens of Kingsbridge, every one
14. Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment about himself in which, he floated with log-like calm
15. I can’t say the demeanor of the saxophone section was quite as convivial
16. The company of other entertainers might have seemed convivial, or it could have felt like being trapped in a television studio greenroom, forever
17. When the ‘Jazz History of the World’ was over girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link
18. “You’ve been to Don Jaime’s before? I thought because it’s so conveniently located, vis-à-vis the house … and once you get used to it, the atmosphere is almost convivial
19. Jimmy, gape-mouthed but convivial on gin, came back to the tenement, pointing at his pink gums and laughing
20. ‘Seems completely disoriented, but convivial
21. How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions
22. It is a most refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold
23. I impute it, though, to their naturally unctuous natures, being rendered still more unctuous by the nature of their vocation, and especially by their pursuing their game in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil
24. Then came the little Pole, playing his violin, a convivial prisoner having engaged him for the whole day to play lively dance-tunes