"Affability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Madame Beattie, with a perfect affability and no apparent emotion, "Anne French has been chattering ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... Surprised by this affability, but swift to seize on a conversational opening with a baronet, Mr. Biggleswade stayed talking with him in the porch; he talked to him all lunch-time: and he talked to him on the sands after lunch. His unbridled appetite for the society of the aristocracy ...
— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson
... of the big jam-pot, however, presently attracted a crowd of sympathisers around us, whose affability and kindly attentions, nay, even ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... in, till their numbers must have swelled to twenty thousand at least. Mr Battiscombe met several friends and acquaintances, with whom he held conversation, and all were unanimous in speaking of the affability and condescension of the Duke. Thus for several miles they rode on, their numbers increasing, till they reached the confines of White Lackington Park. Mr Speke, the owner, who had been prepared for the Duke's coming, rode out with a body of retainers to welcome his Grace; and ...
— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston
... I resembled each other in this: that there was no offensive affability about either of us. Though abounding in good-nature, we could not become intimate by a sudden act of volition. Our conversation was difficult, unnatural, and by gusts falsely familiar. He displayed to me his bachelor house, ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
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