1 By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
2 She sat silent, intent on nothing, while the baby, already glutted with milk, whimpered because he had lost the friendly nipple.
3 But she knew, too, looking with confusion at the friendly faces about her, that if she withheld the news of Ellen's death, the Fontaines would never forgive her.
4 "We came out here to pay a call--a friendly call," he snarled.
5 And though his questions were unpleasantly blunt, they seemed actuated by a friendly interest.
6 The negroes had not yet been given the right to vote but the North was determined that they should vote and equally determined that their vote should be friendly to the North.
7 He laughed, too, throwing back his head as though he enjoyed laughter, thinking her mirth came from the friendly treachery of the men who had given Melly's secret away.
8 It was enough that she was with him and he was holding her hands and smiling, completely friendly, without strain or fever.
9 He came late, at the confidential hour when the tea-table still lingers by the fire in friendly expectancy; and his manner showed a readiness to adapt itself to the intimacy of the occasion.
10 She had not talked with Dorset since their visit at Bellomont, but something in his look and manner told her that he recalled the friendly footing on which they had last met.
11 Mrs. Fisher drew Lily toward the hansom with friendly authority.
12 Lily had thus formed, in the tumult of her surroundings, a little nucleus of friendly relations which mitigated the crudeness of her course in lingering with the Gormers after their return.
13 The tinge of constraint was beginning to be more distinctly perceptible under the friendly ease of his manner.
14 But it secretes friendly girls, young men who sing, and one lady instructress who really likes Milton and Carlyle.
15 But Carol had never been able to play the game of friendly rudeness; and now she was certain that she never would learn it.