Hospitably

Examples

• Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I soon fell into some acquaintance, and was very hospitably received. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Mrs. Bagnet forgets the day to the extent of filling a pipe and a glass for Mr. Bucket and waiting upon him hospitably. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr Pancks was then hospitably pressed into Happy Cottage, where he encountered the elder Master Plornish just come home from school. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At Pekin was the Great Khan, and they were hospitably entertained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were gloomy vaulted sleeping-rooms within, intensely cold, but clean and hospitably prepared for guests. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The author hospitably received by a great lord. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There was no hurry, he said; a week hence would do; and his mother hospitably said the same. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The front door usually stood hospitably open. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Mr. Dawson hospitably invited me to go back with him to Oak Lodge, and take up my quarters there for the night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Elise