Hospitality

Examples

• To hang out a sign saying Come right in; there is no one at home is not the equivalent of hospitality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Old New York scrupulously observed the etiquette of hospitality, and no discussion with a guest was ever allowed to degenerate into a disagreement. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But enter this my homely roof, and see Our woods not void of hospitality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Both the hospitality and the charity of the ancient clergy, accordingly, are said to have been very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We have seen that they would have been safer among the ancient heathens, with whom the rites of hospitality were sacred. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me, or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A hospitality nearly of the same kind was exercised not many years ago in many different parts of the Highlands of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Once clear of the grounds, the duties of hospitality (in Betteredge's code of morals) ceased, and the privileges of curiosity began. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Retention of capacity to grow is the reward of such intellectual hospitality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He seemed to take pleasure in his social functions, he smiled, and was abundant in hospitality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their charity became gradually less extensive, their hospitality less liberal, or less profuse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was impossible sometimes to resist this artless little creature's hospitalities, so kindly were they pressed, so frankly and amiably offered. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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