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  • He recalled a genial woodsman from the village of Petrovskoye, for instance, who had been hit in the head in the prime of his life by a falling limb.†   (source)
  • There were other photos too, mainly of young Soviet soldiers shaking hands with peasants, planting apple saplings, building homes, always smiling genially.†   (source)
  • She had a genial, erudite face and a pleasingly fluid voice.†   (source)
  • Their embarrassed, almost sheepish expressions made them seem more like the accused than the aggrieved—as if by being there they had been caught in an act of disloyalty against their genial friend.†   (source)
  • I had relied on him, my silent ally against the bright lights, the rounded, genial landscape of Iowa.†   (source)
  • Up here, the genial Benjen Stark he had known became a different person.†   (source)
  • Otherwise he's a genial fellow.†   (source)
  • There was a round of handshakes, and a chorus of genial laughter at something Lord Marshall said.†   (source)
  • "Just like her uncle!" the urologist replied genially.†   (source)
  • But Attean seemed impatient; his genial mood of the night before had vanished.†   (source)
  • Leprechauns in general were not known for their geniality.†   (source)
  • And one night I said to him: Larry, I'm not going to say to you 'never drink again,' and frankly I think that AA is way too much for the level of problem you have-5, My father cleared his throat and turned to me with a genial face he usually reserved for strangers.†   (source)
  • They meet the doctor, a genial man in his early forties.†   (source)
  • The genial little man who met me at the door seemed more like an uncle than a professional man or, Lord knows, a revolutionary.†   (source)
  • His smile was genial.†   (source)
  • He's elegant in a black tux but exudes a casual, genial manner, and Mr. Ayers holds his breath and takes a nervous half-step back as Ma approaches, hand extended.†   (source)
  • "Why, Rachel," Leah would say, "you run this place with such genialness and vivacity!†   (source)
  • Inside the shell of a soulless merchant was hidden a genial lunatic, as willing to bring forth a spring of lemonade in the Guajira Desert as to flood a solemn funeral with weeping at his heartbreaking rendition of "In Questa Tomba Oscura."†   (source)
  • My recollection of Mr Lewis is that of a gentleman of generous dimensions with a genial smile that rarely left his face.†   (source)
  • He exuded the genial optimism and good humor of his old friend Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • One of the warlords whose troops have been implicated in the rapes is Laurent Nkunda, a tall, genial man who served us dinner in his comfortable mountain lair.†   (source)
  • Gentle, genially dignified, a scholar with work-calloused hands and sunburned neck, he'd been a classmate of Herb's at Kansas State University.†   (source)
  • "How is our dinner faring?" he asked genially.†   (source)
  • "Your fangs say otherwise, young Simon," Aldertree replied genially.†   (source)
  • "No, sir," Deets said genially.†   (source)
  • He settled the question of whether or no she should enter into conversation, by accosting her at once brusquely and genially.†   (source)
  • "a fashionable morning lounge," and its large, genial proprietor became one of the best-known young men in town.†   (source)
  • The man's remarks were directed at his own genial drift, of course, not the boy's.†   (source)
  • He was a genial, magnanimous lead navigator who could always forgive the other man in the squadron for denouncing him furiously each time he got lost on a combat mission and led them over concentrations of antiaircraft fire.†   (source)
  • She's a most genial girl.†   (source)
  • When Prusias finally opened his eyes, his tone was genial once again.†   (source)
  • He was composed, the genial host in a five-thousand-dollar linen suit and melted-butter Italian loafers.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because of this reduction in rank, perhaps for other reasons, his reputation among persons Phaedrus talked to wasn't one of geniality.†   (source)
  • Summoning a host of reporters to the hotel lobby, he lost his ever-genial composure for the first and only time in his public life.†   (source)
  • "It could be worse," a genial man named Paco consoles her.†   (source)
  • The eyes behind the steel-rimmed glasses did not convey geniality; they were sharp and cold.†   (source)
  • Aelian was a gracious and genial man and my father was bored and frantic.†   (source)
  • In regard to myself, I've often been told I have a youthful, genial appearance, and am even a bit handsome.†   (source)
  • Joe sensed a mild geniality in her and it made him feel good.†   (source)
  • I was relieved to see that my ruse served to distract the clerk's attention from Sophie; the dewlapped old gentleman, being Southern (like so many Washington hirelings), was impressed by my credentials and also had a Southerner's genial garrulousness: "Have a nice stay, Reverend, you and the missus.†   (source)
  • Genially:) Now Shall we start all over?†   (source)
  • He was a big, genial man, and the offer was not unusual.†   (source)
  • The pastor, Father James, was a genial, well-fed man with a face like a darker moon.†   (source)
  • a genial host
  • The evening was kind and genial, and so was my companion.   (source)
  • "I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year," said Tom genially.   (source)
  • She has genially offered me a glass and I have declined.†   (source)
  • A semiretired man, genial but wary, killing time.†   (source)
  • 'Dangerous?' said Hagrid, looking genially bemused.†   (source)
  • "Sleep it off," said Crake in his genial fashion.†   (source)
  • "Well, well, take twenty well-earned points for Gryffindor, Miss Granger," said Slughorn genially.†   (source)
  • It was not genial any more, but shocked, terrified.†   (source)
  • His mood isn't what you'd call genial, but he's alert.†   (source)
  • From behind the bar, Eric, who is mixing a carafe of sangria, rolls his eyes and shrugs genially.†   (source)
  • 'See you, Harry, and keep an eye out for snakes for me!' said Mr Weasley genially, shaking his hand.†   (source)
  • It was not genial any more, but shocked, terrified.†   (source)
  • "All too young to Apparate just yet?" said Slughorh genially, "Not turned seventeen yet?"†   (source)
  • 'Time's ...UP!' called Slughorn genially.†   (source)
  • He's a handsome man with a genial manner.†   (source)
  • Beaming genially, Hodor looked from one Frey to the other, oblivious to their taunting.†   (source)
  • With that, Mr Lewis sat back in his chair again, the genial smile returning fully to his face.†   (source)
  • Reilly shook his head and genially extended his hands.†   (source)
  • But weakened by the genial events of the evening, he had consented.†   (source)
  • The intelligence officer laughed genially and threw up his hands.†   (source)
  • They were in a world to themselves, genial with everyone but sharing a code of humour.†   (source)
  • I told you ...it was an accident.... Yes, but you didn't fall off, did you?" roared Amos genially, slapping his son on his back.†   (source)
  • His airy tone was becoming more genial with every step, and Trish noticed he was actively taking it all in.†   (source)
  • One day, one of the genial drunks on the river docks embraced him with more enthusiasm than usual when he saw him leave the office, and then he removed Florentino Ariza's hat, to the mocking laughter of the stevedores, and gave him a resounding kiss on the head.†   (source)
  • "This evening?" said the clerk when I finally got to the window: a broad, fair, middle aged woman, pillowy at the bosom and impersonally genial like a procuress in a second rate genre painting.†   (source)
  • Finny got up, patted my head genially, and moved on across the field, not deigning to glance around for my counterattack, but relying on his extrasensory ears, his ability to feel in the air someone coming on him from behind.†   (source)
  • Though elderly, he had the calm, well-tanned look of someone who spent a lot of his spare time on the tennis court; the dark pouches under his eyes gave him a genial panda-bear aspect.†   (source)
  • At boarding school and then at university they'd learned a genial contempt for their father, who couldn't read Latin, not even badly, as they did.†   (source)
  • Pari watched him speak to the waiter in the tone of genial authority that she recalled well and felt the same flutter in the gut that she had as a girl when he would come over to pick up Maman.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was hard to get information out of Hobie on touchy matters — he tended to change the subject, clam up, drift into vagueness, and the worst possible place to ask him anything was a crowded room where some genial party was apt to wander up and interrupt.†   (source)
  • Walking behind Their Majesties were the Governor General and Lady Tweedsmuir, His Excellency a gracious and genial host, Her Excellency poised and beautiful.†   (source)
  • From his genial cursing, his infrequent shaving, the relaxed way he talked around the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, it was almost as if he were playing a character: some cool guy from a fifties noir or maybe Ocean's Eleven, a lazy, sated gangster with not much to lose.†   (source)
  • "Harry, that's three of my little suppers you've missed now!" said Slughorn, poking him genially in the chest.†   (source)
  • "And so if I am?" said Boris genially.†   (source)
  • "No?" said Horst genially.†   (source)
  • "Harry, Harry, just the man I was hoping to see!" he boomed genially, twiddling the ends of his walrus mustache and puffing out his enormous belly, "I was hoping to catch you before dinner!†   (source)
  • Even in some smoky post-catastrophe Manhattan you could imagine him swaying genially at the door in the rags of his former uniform, the Barbours up in the apartment burning old National Geographics for warmth, living off gin and tinned crabmeat.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, hey!" said Martin genially, as the other guy —gray blond thug in a pea coat, coarse features out of Nordic folklore—ambled straight up to Boris, and, after grappling around at Boris's waistband, took his gun and passed it over to Martin.†   (source)
  • Harry Strickland had always been a genial man, better at hammering out contracts than at hammering on foes.†   (source)
  • The only red priest Tyrion had ever known was Thoros of Myr, the portly, genial, wine-stained roisterer who had loitered about Robert's court swilling the king's finest vintages and setting his sword on fire for melées.†   (source)
  • Catelyn was assigned a place on the dais between red-faced Lord Mathis Rowan and genial Ser Jon Fossoway of the green-apple Fossoways.†   (source)
  • New York was less genial than it used to be when the saloons and supper clubs were hangouts for lively and charming women and for gentlemen-bums with a comic flair.†   (source)
  • Genial?†   (source)
  • "My wife," our guide said genially.†   (source)
  • Their marching footsteps on the dull tile floor thundered like an awesome, quickening drum roll through the vacant center of the building as they moved with even greater speed and precision toward Colonel Cathcart's office, and violent winds of panic began blowing in Yossarian's ears when they turned him toward his doom inside the office, where Colonel Korn, his rump spreading comfortably on a corner of Colonel Cathcart's desk, sat waiting to greet him with a genial smile and said, 'We're sending you home.'†   (source)
  • Hizdahr smiled genially.†   (source)
  • A clever, smiling, genial man, everyone's friend, always able to find whatever gold the king or his Hand required, and yet of such undistinguished birth, one step up from a hedge knight, he was not a man to fear.†   (source)
  • I was listening to the same genial, slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert.†   (source)
  • After a while he realized that he was staring at rows and rows of bushels of red plum tomatoes and grew so intrigued by the question of what bushels brimming with red plum tomatoes were doing in a group commander's office that he forgot completely about the discussion of prayer meetings until Colonel Cathcart, in a genial digression, inquired: 'Would you like to buy some, Chaplain?†   (source)
  • Yet there he was, sitting in the Trail Room's circular corner booth, his lively brown eyes, his square-jawed, genial good looks unchanged by death.†   (source)
  • I attempted to convey to her what a genial employer Mr Farraday is; and I described the changes to the house itself, the alterations and the dust-sheetings, as well as the present staffing arrangements.†   (source)
  • His geniality was confirmed by none and sharply refuted by two, one the head of a major University department who described him as a "holy terror" and another who held a graduate degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago who said the chairman was well known for graduating only carbon copies of himself.†   (source)
  • He spent a night and a day at Albuquerque, with the genial and popular Padre Gallegos.†   (source)
  • He was at his kindest and most genial, setting the woman at her ease.†   (source)
  • I could submit and live the life of a genial slave, but that was impossible.†   (source)
  • Again they joined hands and walked around in a circle genially advertising the boy.†   (source)
  • MOSHER—(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick temper, but there was no real harm in her.†   (source)
  • Blore said genially: "We won't disturb you.†   (source)
  • The loud speakers veiled their commands in a genial and musical politeness.†   (source)
  • Dr Adams was the typical genial red-faced country doctor of fiction.†   (source)
  • No great talker, she merely smiled genially when her eyes fell on Rambert.†   (source)
  • ROCKY—(genially) You dumb baby dolls gimme a pain.†   (source)
  • 'And all is explained,' cried Poirot genially.†   (source)
  • His manner was genial and his speech idiosyncratic.†   (source)
  • ROCKY—(genially again) Sure, I'm a bartender.†   (source)
  • Outside the door Father Mackay became the simple, genial man I had known before.†   (source)
  • But I want the outer semblance of the things I used to know, the utter boredom of respectability—other people's respectability, my pet, not my own—the calm dignity life can have when it's lived by gentle folks, the genial grace of days that are gone.†   (source)
  • 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink' 'Stand easy!' barked the instructress, a little more genially.†   (source)
  • And 'This is Giles,' said Maxim, prodding my arm, and Giles stretched out an enormous paw and wrung my hand, squeezing the fingers limp, genial eyes smiling from behind horn-rimmed glasses.†   (source)
  • He must have been to her the perfect man; heroic; handsome;magnanimous; "the great Achilles, whom we knew" — it seems natural to quote Tennyson—and also genial, lovable, simple, and also her husband; and her children's father.†   (source)
  • His first encounter was with a genial German named Meister, who had entered the lamasery during the 'eighties, as the survivor of an exploring party.†   (source)
  • Jimmy had four brothers and three sisters, some of them occupied mysteriously, but all were genial and glad-handing, even the married elder daughters and the middle-aged sons.†   (source)
  • "But I was saying"—he gave me a genial smile with heart-felt squint and then he yawned and enjoyed the golden light—"how a guy struggles with malice.†   (source)
  • He pencilled his initials-two small pale letters abject at the feet of Mustapha Mond-and was about to return the paper without a word of comment or genial Ford-speed, when his eye was caught by something written in the body of the permit.†   (source)
  • The crossing-sweeper will do; the postman; the waiter in this French restaurant; better still the genial proprietor, whose geniality seems reserved for oneself.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Francie talked and talked until the genial little boy fell asleep sitting upright on the steps with his head against the iron rail.†   (source)
  • THE NIGHT AT PECOS A month after the Bishop's visit to Albuquerque and Acoma, the genial Father Gallegos was formally suspended, and Father Vaillant himself took charge of the parish.†   (source)
  • Then came the cavalcade: mounted policemen and a large open motorcar in which was seated a genial, kindly-looking man with a wreath of roses around his neck.†   (source)
  • In his red gown he was another man, no longer genial or goodnatured; his mouth spewed out long, turgid phrases like an endless stream of snakes.†   (source)
  • And the candles were now as genial to me as though they had been the ones stuck into loaves of bread by night and sailed on a black Indian lake to find the drowned body sunk to the bottom.†   (source)
  • MOSHER—(who has been the least impressed by Hickey's talk and is the first to recover and feel the effect of the drinks on top of his hangover—genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll come out of it.†   (source)
  • Cottard's tone was genial.†   (source)
  • Fat and pale, with an intelligent Circassian bow to her eyes, very humane, overreconciled to a bad lot, taking it for granted that she was too fat to get a husband and forgiving her married sisters and mobile brothers their better luck, she had a genial cry, almost male and fraternal.†   (source)
  • I had met Father Mackay several times; he was a stocky, middle-aged, genial Glasgow-Irishman who, when we met, was apt to ask me such questions as, "Would you say now, Mr. Ryder, that the painter Titian was more truly artistic than the painter Raphael?" and, more disconcertingly still, to remember my answers: "To revert, Mr. Ryder, to what you said when last I had the pleasure to meet you, would it be right now to say that the painter Titian ..." usually ending with some such reflection as: "Ah, it's a grand resource for a man to have the talent you have, Mr. Ryder, and the time to indulge it."†   (source)
  • The nearer Naab got to his home the more genial he became.†   (source)
  • "Got anything on?" asked Mike Dolan, genially.†   (source)
  • No, no, no, no, no. He laughed genially, sure, within limits, of his welcome.†   (source)
  • "Reckon that makes you one of us," said Hutter, genially.†   (source)
  • They were elderly men, and had genial voices.†   (source)
  • He knew so much and was so genial that it was impossible to feel dull in his presence.†   (source)
  • THE NOTE TAKER [turning on him genially] And how are all your people down at Selsey?†   (source)
  • He was a genial freebooter, living off the enemy, without fear or shame.†   (source)
  • The genial, playful, puppyish side of him found little expression.†   (source)
  • I found him, to my astonishment, quite composed and most genial in his manner.†   (source)
  • The sky was bright, and there was a genial warmth in the air.†   (source)
  • For over the telephone, of course, he had talked very soft and genial-like because he had to.†   (source)
  • They bought the skeleton gratefully, on the installment plan...Later the salesman was less genial.†   (source)
  • "Shore I reckoned thet," he replied, genially.†   (source)
  • There was nothing more healthy, more genial on earth.†   (source)
  • Cut the sob-stuff," said W. A. Rogers genially.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry, what's up?" replied Fielding, also trying to be genial.†   (source)
  • He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his hands together in the most genial fashion.†   (source)
  • "Good-night," said Hurstwood at the final moment, in a last effort to be genial.†   (source)
  • She must be very genial and yet not put herself forward too much or in his way.†   (source)
  • "Ah, but she doesn't want to, does she?" the director said with a genial laugh.†   (source)
  • "An Englishman at his best," they thought; "so genial."†   (source)
  • Genial egotist that he was, he went at once into a detailed account of his own career.†   (source)
  • He was tall, vigorous, sandy-haired, freckled, genial and voluble.†   (source)
  • The latter's genial nature and dressy appearance pleased him.†   (source)
  • But the lights in different rooms glowing at this early hour gave it a friendly and genial look.†   (source)
  • He could have been genial to all the world, and he bore no grudge against his wife.†   (source)
  • And on this occasion Hortense was inclined to be very genial and friendly.†   (source)
  • "Why, George, how are you?" said another genial West Side politician and lodge member.†   (source)
  • And with that he once more pressed Clyde's arm genially and looked him over.†   (source)
  • He was an exceedingly genial soul, this young man, and wholly free of affectation.†   (source)
  • He tapped his father genially on the shoulder again.†   (source)
  • "I saw you," Hurstwood said, genially, the next time.†   (source)
  • "Tied up at the office," he said genially.†   (source)
  • "Well, I hope you'll like it, now that you're here," she began, genially.†   (source)
  • "Well, it seems strange to see you way up here," said Mr. Kenny genially.†   (source)
  • "You can talk all you want," suggested Jephson, genially, "so long as you don't say anything.†   (source)
  • "Had an accident, eh?" he exclaimed, genially enough.†   (source)
  • "About the same as usual," said Hurstwood, smiling genially.†   (source)
  • "Well, if I were you," he said, looking at her rather genially, "I would try the department stores.†   (source)
  • "What are you up to?" he inquired genially, turning a smiling face upon his secret brother.†   (source)
  • Carrie smiled genially, grateful that he should condescend to advise her even so much.†   (source)
  • I had many a genial thought by the cabin fire "as I sailed."†   (source)
  • His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very genial.†   (source)
  • The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring greatly altered the aspect of the earth.†   (source)
  • "There's some truth in that," said Mr. Standish, disposed to be genial.†   (source)
  • Passepartout smiled his most genial smile, and said, "Never too late."†   (source)
  • For Mr. Bhaer talked well in this genial atmosphere, and did himself justice.†   (source)
  • The lamps were on brackets, at intervals, and if the light was imperfect it was genial.†   (source)
  • 'What fools are these Police Sahibs!' said Kim genially.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I like him—I like him," said Newman, genially.†   (source)
  • But even though he exclaimed he still preserved for a time his genially expansive mood.†   (source)
  • Stepan Arkadyevitch, without hearing him out, laid his hand genially on the secretary's sleeve.†   (source)
  • "What good will it do me?" he asked with a sort of genial crudity.†   (source)
  • Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?†   (source)
  • The marquis, who had greeted Newman almost genially, stood apart, slowly rubbing his hands.†   (source)
  • He finished by genially kissing my hand and thanking me.†   (source)
  • This is the most baseless hallucination that ever visited the brain of a genial optimist.†   (source)
  • Not this hand complies with my humor more genially than that boy.†   (source)
  • He was a middle-aged man, with hair and whiskers prematurely grey, and a broad and genial face.†   (source)
  • It seemed natural: it seemed genial to be so well loved, so caressed by him.†   (source)
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