Inviting

Examples

• Unless you are inviting death for us all you had best drop, and that quickly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This was her way of inviting her guest to take a chair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• On so inviting a morning, too, it was very tantalising to turn back, and leave his friends to enjoy themselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mrs. Elton's invitations I should have imagined any thing but inviting. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The green turf looked soft and cool and inviting. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The weather was clear and Popocatapetl stood out in all its beauty, the top looking as if not a mile away, and inviting us to return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the night I received Lee's answer to my letter of the 8th, inviting an interview between the lines on the following morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And Mr. Brooke laid his book on her lap with an inviting smile. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I suppose you have been inviting others, and they have refused too. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At least, you should not _remind_ your mother of inviting him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is not sufficiently inviting? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• On the 12th I sent a special messenger, one of my own staff, with a letter inviting Sherman's views about the next campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I answered by inviting him to accompany me on a general inspection of the result of my labours. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Before me were low hills pierced by narrow and inviting ravines. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I understood at once--for my sympathies are your sympathies--why you wished to see her here before you pledged yourself to inviting Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Crispin shuddered, for the prospect of living under the same roof with this lady was anything but an inviting one. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I remember all three paying me a visit together, and inviting me to visit them in the Rue Mont Blanc. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Well--what harm was there in inviting her? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This is a quiet little ch?teau, he observed, after inviting me to sit near the casement. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Sir John never came to the Dashwoods without either inviting them to dine at the park the next day, or to drink tea with them that evening. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

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