Agreeably

Examples

• Mr. Bounderby seemed agreeably surprised, notwithstanding his previous strong conviction. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The winter was spent more agreeably than the summer had been. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was not in his best spirits, but seemed trying to improve them; and, at last, made himself talk nonsense very agreeably. Jane Austen. Emma.
• My father thought you would get on more agreeably through to-morrow with me than with him, and might like to take a walk about London. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have passed many an afternoon very agreeably in these conversations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But the evenings were rather difficult to fill up agreeably. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He was agreeably surprised to see us stirring so soon and said he would gladly share our walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And agreeably to this mode of thinking and speaking, were we not saying that they will have their pleasures and pains in common? Plato. The Republic.
• For my own part, at present, I pass my time agreeably enough; I enjoy (through mercy) a tolerable share of health. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I am often as agreeably entertained with them as by the scenery of an opera. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When they make them rightly, they make them agreeably to their interest; when they are mistaken, contrary to their interest; you admit that? Plato. The Republic.
• Emma was most agreeably surprized. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Everybody was agreeably surprised except his lordship, who fully expected to have passed the evening _tête-à-tête_ with me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• One accompaniment to her song took her agreeably by surprizea second, slightly but correctly taken by Frank Churchill. Jane Austen. Emma.
• My mind was more agreeably engaged. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Emma's comforts and hopes were most agreeably carried on, by Harriet's being to stay longer; her fortnight was likely to be a month at least. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The conversation at dinner flowed on quietly and agreeably. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• On the delivery of this sentiment, Mr. Weller smiled agreeably upon the assembled Pickwickians. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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