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    genial


    1. To the sweet transports of genial bed


    2. Octopuses are usually quiet and genial creatures, who are at their happiest when left alone to do word puzzles


    3. The genial tobacco seemed to have quieted his nerves, and


    4. was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners, and the progress of


    5. At the back came the four officials, representatives of another generation, intent on their own genial chatter


    6. On the right the lights of Ingleside gleamed through the maple grove with the genial lure and invitation which seems always to glow in the beacons of a home where we know there is love and good-cheer and a welcome for all kin, whether of flesh or spirit


    7. Not one word did she reply to his genial greeting, but went silently away to call her father briefly


    8. Shawn Bannister had been extra genial with the men as he tried to gather more behind the scenes information particularly as pertained to his half-brother


    9. 11 Shock Waves With a More Genial Castro Offering Help


    10. he gave the image of a genial old gentleman

    11. This appealed to the boys who met the genial man on his rounds of the classes


    12. Charles smiled at the comforting, genial brown face of the doctor


    13. Unfortunately for me, beneath my genial surface I do have an assumed air of superiority that some men instantly dislike and will go to no end to put down


    14. Especially, since in this civilization for some reason this is regarded as genial


    15. You astonish me; for have you not Miss Cheriton? Still, on reflection I think I do see that what you feel you want is more a solid bread-and-butter sort of relationship; no sentiment, genial good advice, a helping hand if not a guiding one--really a good thick slice of bread-and-butter as a set-off to a diet of constant cake


    16. A retired colonel she knew --she knew all the retired colonels--waved his umbrella and shouted a genial inquiry after her toothache, and she looked at him with a dead, ungrateful eye


    17. Everything was now ready, and by the temporary altar the genial pastor waited with smiling face to fulfil his part of the ceremony


    18. Once Priscilla was seized with laughter--a not very genial mirth, but still laughter--and had to fling herself on her bed and bury her face in the pillows lest Fritzing should hear so blood-curdling a noise


    19. The literary findings of the dystopian arouse the hope that if one can imagine a perfect world in its happiness, why not a perfect dictatorship could be imagined which a genial supporter of totalitarianism to put it into practice


    20. Chantry held up a glass of wine with a genial smile of welcome, “I knew you could do it old friend! If anyone could it would be you!”

    21. He met his visitor with an apparently genial and good-tempered air, and it was only after a few minutes that


    22. He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing, or brilliant, and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth


    23. Bhaer talked well in this genial atmosphere, and did himself justice


    24. or think it possible to love her? And unless 'youth, and genial years were flown,' it would be thought equally unreasonable to insist, [under penalty of] forfeiting


    25. But at last a soft, genial morning appeared; such as might tempt the daughter's wishes and the mother's confidence; and Marianne, leaning on Elinor's arm, was authorised to walk as long as she could without fatigue, in the lane before the house


    26. His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun


    27. youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for


    28. that shot in genial warmth into the innermost recesses of my body; every


    29. the genial instinct acted upon him


    30. his oval reservoirs of the genial emulsion: whilst, on my side, a

    31. The whole landscape, which, seen by a favoring light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects were arrayed in their harshest but truest colors, and without the relief of any shadowing


    32. Big strong men, officers of the peace and genial giants of the royal Irish constabulary, were making frank use of their handkerchiefs and it is safe to say that there was not a dry eye in that record assemblage


    33. A grate fitted with asbestos blocks and lit with gas communicated a genial warmth to the air


    34. In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed


    35. Let us hasten to say that in private the genial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent man disappeared to give place to the brutal husband and domineering father


    36. The deceased gentleman was a most popular and genial personality in city life and his demise after a brief illness came as a great shock to citizens of all classes by whom he is deeply regretted


    37. The old clergyman, nurtured at the rich bosom of the English Church, had a long-established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things; and however stern he might show himself in the pulpit, or in his public reproof of such transgressions as that of Hester Prynne, still the genial benevolence of his private life had won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries


    38. and the sweet youth, overpowered with the ecstasy, died away in my arms, melting a flood that shot in genial warmth into the innermost recesses of my body; every conduit of which, dedicated to that pleasure, was on flow to mix with it


    39. Coming then into my chamber, and seeing me lie alone, with my face turned from the light towards the inside of the bed, he, without more ado, just slipped off his breeches, for the greater ease and enjoyment of the naked touch; and softly turning up my petticoats and shift behind, opened the prospect of the back avenue to the genial seat of pleasure; where, as I lay at my side length, inclining rather face downward, I appeared full fair, and liable to be entered


    40. But, what is pleasant enough, I myself was awed into a sort of respect for him, by the comely terrors his motions dressed him in: his eyes shooting sparks of fire; his face glowing with ardours that gave another life to it; his teeth churning; his whole frame agitated with a raging ungovernable impetuosity: all sensibly betraying the formidable fierceness with which the genial instinct acted upon him

    41. Resuming then the action afresh, without dislodging, or giving me the trouble of parting from my sweet tenant, we played over again the same opera, with the same harmony and concert: our ardours, like our love, knew no remission; and all the tide serving my lover, lavish of his stores, and pleasure-milked, he over-flowed me once more from the fulness of his oval reservoirs of the genial emulsion: whilst, on my side, a convulsive grasp, in the instant of my giving down the liquid contribution, rendered me sweetly subservient at once to the increase of joy, and to its effusions: moving me so, as to make me exert all those springs of the compressive exsuction, with which the sensitive mechanism of that part thirstily draws and drains the nipple of Love; with much such an instinctive eagerness and attachment, as to compare great with less, kind nature engages infants at the breasts, by the pleasure they find in the motion of their little mouths and cheeks, to extract the milky stream prepared for their nourishment


    42. his face lighted up immediately with his characteristic expression of genial and manly serenity


    43. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty


    44. Rayno had seen the Grand Inquisitor in every conceivable mood, from genial good fellowship when things were going well to incoherent, furniture-smashing fury when things went … less well


    45. He had an enormously massive genial manner, which was almost as overpowering as his violence


    46. But then, as he got warm at the work and saw how assiduously Veslovsky was tugging at the wagonette by one of the mud-guards, so that he broke it indeed, Levin blamed himself for having under the influence of yesterday’s feelings been too cold to Veslovsky, and tried to be particularly genial so as to smooth over his chilliness


    47. "He is not a popular person, the genial Challenger," said he


    48. 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


    49. The Attractions’ version of the song was not quite so genial


    50. There was nothing so startling to his reply, but the genial Bill Clinton eased into the background as the politician in him engaged for a moment or two




























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    Synonyms for "genial"

    affable amiable cordial genial kind mental pleasant agreeable cheerful hearty well-disposed warm-hearted warm enlivening lively

    "genial" definitions

    diffusing warmth and friendliness


    of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw


    agreeable, conducive to comfort