Cordiality

Larsen had turned the liquor loose among his men surprised me, but he evidently knew their psychology and the best method of cementing in cordiality, what had begun in bloodshed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That Wolf Larsen had turned the liquor loose among his men surprised me, but he evidently knew their psychology and the best method of cementing in cordiality what had begun in bloodshed. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Tossed aside in all the cordiality were the looming and tougher questions of future import: Vietnam and Asia, rumors of Soviet moves in Cuba, the budget, and the fall elections. ❋ David Eisenhower (2010)

His cordiality was a complete surprise to Alyosha. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There must be heartiness in the expression, in the smile, in the hand-shake, in the cordiality, which is unmistakable. ❋ Orison Swett Marden (1887)

She was merely making use of a current phrase, as was frequently her custom, and attributing no precise meaning to it, unless it were that wine vaguely suggested to her mind the idea of cordiality and the hope that after her deliverance she would see the ❋ Anatole France (1884)

He recalled the cordiality of Reine's reception, and how she had spoken of the difficulties he should have to encounter. ❋ Andr�� Theuriet (1870)

As to reform, the Parliament was naturally slow (did any political assembly in the world ever divest itself of its own privileges without pressure from without?); but as to the abolition of the Penal Laws there was a cordiality which is remarkable, and which is seldom referred to by the Nationalist writers of the present day when they discourse about the Penal Laws. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

"The same kind of cordiality that you would show to the cottagers?" ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

A footman in livery removed his master's furs, and inquired after his health with the affectionate cordiality which is habitual with Swedish servants. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

In the hotels dancing was promised -- the german was announced; on the galleries and in the corridors were groups of young people, a little loud in manner and voice, -- the young gentleman, with his over-elaborate manner to ladies in bowing and hat-lifting, and the blooming girls from the lesser Southern cities, with the slight provincial note, and yet with the frank and engaging cordiality which is as charming as it is characteristic. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

M. de C. was an extremely common-place character; he said the same things to almost every one he met in a drawing room: he spoke to every person with a kind of cordiality in which sentiments and ideas had no part. ❋ Necker, Anne L G (1821)

He said that the talks would be marked with "cordiality" and would be "fruitful". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wresting analogies aside, the campaign promises to test and stress this kind of cordiality in the lead-ups to the May convention and the August primary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here all the prostitutes reside, among whom are many fine well-dressed women, and it is remarkable that they live in much greater cordiality one with another than any nests of that kind do in Britain or Ireland. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

She did not deem it unwise to cultivate cordiality with the lawyer. ❋ Unknown (2010)