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Example sentences for "friendly manner"

  • Our captain immediately used every means to assure them of being in perfect safety, and entertained them in a friendly manner, giving them to eat and drink.

  • Having sought his acquaintance, he entertained us in a friendly manner, showing us many things, and among these a large map of the world containing sundry navigations, both those of the Spaniards and Portuguese.

  • He seemed quite disposed to listen in a friendly manner to what I had to say to him; he did not, however, attempt to conceal his surprise at my direct appeals and the personal demands I made of him.

  • One day Degelow came up to Schroter and me in a wine-bar that we often frequented, and in quite a friendly manner confessed to us confidentially his liking for a young and very pretty actress whose talent Schroter disputed.

  • Even the public was looking forward to it, and for the first time I saw my name mentioned in a friendly manner in a communication to the Allgemeine Zeitung.

  • He stopped and saw an officer with sharp pointed moustaches and shining face who sat in the trap of a swell isvostchik and waved his hand in a friendly manner, his smile disclosing unusually long, white teeth.

  • And he bowed in a friendly manner as he got into the trap and drove off.

  • Two men sat at another table with tea-things and a white bottle in front of them, mopping their foreheads, and calculating something in a friendly manner.

  • The Commanding Officers require and charge the Garrison to treat the natives in a friendly manner; nor will they be permitted at any time, to abuse, assault or strike them; unless such abuse assault or stroke be first given by the natives.

  • I resolved to make the best of our situation and to approach them in a friendly manner.

  • Drewyer & three other men I was receved in a friendly manner.

  • This encouraged the rest of the natives to mix with our people in a friendly manner; but finding nothing to detain him here, the general determined to take in a supply of water, not knowing when he might have another opportunity.

  • You shall have it in cash in an hour," said Ebenstreit, in a friendly manner.

  • You have made a good purchase," said the minister, in a friendly manner.

  • The king nodded in a friendly manner to his minister, and slowly walked back and forth, while he took leave and withdrew.

  • Some of these officers shall be elected by vote, some by lot; and all classes shall mingle in a friendly manner at the elections.

  • In the elections to the priesthood, Plato endeavours to mix or balance in a friendly manner 'demus and not demus.

  • Some time after that he came to me in a friendly manner, saying, 'Peribanu, allow me to present you with a magnificent ornament for the bosom.

  • When they had settled every thing according to their wishes, they went through the streets of the town, conversing in a friendly manner, that they might see the fair, which was held with due merriment.

  • The Landgrave, having collected all the doctors at his table on the last day, they shook hands in a friendly manner,[294] and each one thought of leaving the town.

  • The soldiers called to one another in a friendly manner, shook hands, styled themselves confederates and brothers.

  • Charles reproached me in a friendly manner because I had not called once upon them, and, in order to atone for my apparent negligence, I went to see them the next day with M.

  • Yet it need not happen, for I undertake to arrange everything in a friendly manner for a few sequins.

  • We spoke of many other things in a friendly manner, and in the evening we parted with the often repeated assurance of the warmest affection and of the most perfect devotion.

  • From thence they waited on the emperor, and were received in a friendly manner, receiving permission to come yearly to Japan with one or two ships, and so departed with the emperor's pass or licence.

  • This ship was well received, and entertained in a friendly manner.

  • I then took my leave of all the chiefs in a friendly manner, giving them various presents as farewell tokens, entreating them to give Mr Spalding such assistance as he might require, as after my departure he would have to rely on them.

  • That all the subjects of the Great Mogul should receive the English in a friendly manner, suffering them to land their goods peaceably, and to procure provisions for their money without paying customs for them.

  • After receiving him in a friendly manner, I conferred with him in the presence of our merchants, as to our hopes of trade in this country.

  • This somewhat delicate question was, however, settled in a friendly manner by Lord Granville, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

  • In that year Lord Auckland was Governor-General, and Captain Alexander Burnes was sent on a commercial mission up the Indus, and through the Kyber Pass, to Cabul, where he was received in a friendly manner by the Ameer Dost Mahomed.

  • Although he was received in a friendly manner by the new ruler, his account of the state of affairs in April was discouraging and ominous.

  • Envoy, and accompanied by a few officers and a small escort, arrived at Cabul in July, being received in a friendly manner by the Ameer; although influences adverse to his presence in the capital soon became apparent.

  • Barbaro was the first to tell me in a friendly manner that he hoped at least that this was not the day after my wedding.

  • I made him give me during the journey lessons in French politeness, and when we parted he took me apart in a friendly manner, saying that he wished to make me a small present.

  • This he communicated to me in a friendly manner, but he was by no means desirous that I should leave him.

  • Benezet employed him occasionally, I mean in a friendly manner, as his amanuensis, to copy his manuscripts for publication, as well as several of his letters written in behalf of the cause.

  • We were received by him in a friendly manner.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute good; admitted that; climbing plants; conversation with; dear life; deep reverie; foot soldiers; friendly fashion; friendly manner; friendly port; friendly power; friendly societies; friendly society; friendly terms; friendly tone; great enough; hath delivered; honour and; how does; lord ambassador; names were; nearly uniform; not mean; reverend friend; seldom found; true knowledge