"Amiable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Princess would not promise, but the nurse showed her so many good reasons for it that in the end she agreed to be amiable to her step-mother. ...
— The Red Fairy Book • Various
... too much of a man to hazard an opinion on the proprieties in the face of his wife's disapproval, so he grunted an amiable acquiescence in that spirit of justifiable hypocrisy known among his kind as "humoring the women-folks." Privately he was disposed to exult in his daughter's spirit and good sense, and so long as these admirable qualities did not ...
— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham
... Kansas." Pretending to overlook the past causes of trouble, he announced that everything would now be set right by new elections, in which the whole people should have full opportunity of declaring their will. Mr. Walker went to Kansas with a full determination to carry out this amiable promise of the President. Both he and his secretary, Mr. Stanton, labored strenuously to convince the people of the Territory of his honest purposes, and, by dint of persuasions, pledges, assurances, and oaths, at length succeeded in procuring a pretty ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... an accomplished and amiable lady, but she was too kind and yielding. I have always retained the most grateful remembrance of her care. Thus, though surrounded by good influences, I needed restraint, where there was so much indulgence. I have sometimes ventured to excuse myself on the ground that I was not taught that most ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... is really a revolutionist, Monsieur; so come and enlighten us as to the latest methods of those amiable patriots." ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
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