He said it with that curious heartiness which is the reverse of hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Mr. Windibrook evidently had no "heartiness" for non-subscribing humor. From Wordnik.com. [From Sand Hill to Pine] Reference
The heartiness of his thanksgiving is half the fun. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
The two mates laughed at this with great heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
He echoed her laugh with the carefree heartiness of a boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
"Splendidly!" the doctor answered with his bluff heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
"Avery," he cried, with a heartiness that surprised even himself. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"Delighted," said Copplestone, shaking hands with great heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
"Fine," he replied with such heartiness that she feared he was joking. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
"And I hope you won't at all," responded the other with much heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
"I'd love to," a touch of Marjorie's old heartiness came to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
"I know you'll be splendid," she declared with rather forced heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
"That's all right, Belle," returned the Western girl, with great heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
"Aye, dot is a true wort," and she laughed with a jolly, shaking heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
She drew back and laughed with as much heartiness as at his story of the heron's nest. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It had in it a spontaniety and heartiness which made it almost seem the echo of a virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
"They'll not desert us, old fellow," he said, with a heartiness which he by no means felt. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Two cargoes of food had no little also to do with the heartiness of their acceptance of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Kate Denise seconded the nomination with a heartiness that made Eleanor flush with pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
He greets the few people he meets with forced heartiness, because Gioi is in danger of dying. From Wordnik.com. [The Gene Rush] Reference
The bluff over-heartiness of the voice was matched by the gross and hairy figure that confronted him. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Then he threw doubt to the winds and gripped Joe's hand with a heartiness that warmed the latter's heart. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
It was, however, with no lack of heartiness that he complied with the request to send a telegram summoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Breschia fell upon his neck and kissed him on both cheeks, and Brunow returned the salute with heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Persis 'ringing tones had a heartiness which seemed plebeian contrasted with Mrs. Richards' subdued murmurs. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Far from being gloomy or abstracted, he was active and watchful, and spoke with heartiness and cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
All hands received the general with great heartiness, and he soon passed out of our sight into the commodore's cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Let us take his proffered hand and feel the heartiness of its greeting, feel its friendly shake, even to our shoe-soles. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Augustus replied with such whole-souled heartiness that the child beamed upon him and boldly held out her hand for the pen. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Doubtless their amusements are often coarse; elegance and refinement are wanting in them; but at least they have heartiness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"My dear boy," said he, grasping both of Ernest's hands and shaking them with much heartiness, "you'll be the making of us all.". From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Aside from the genuine terror he summons in that scene, it's a performance whose cardboard heartiness hasn't worn well with time. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of a Lifetime] Reference
Minturne Creek, causing Master Jasper to guffaw in sympathy with a heartiness that Seth did not at all relish, especially after Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
"Cobbler" Horn came in from his workshop, and greeted the young girl with an honest heartiness which placed her at her ease at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Grim and full of warning, like the pillar of salt, or winsome and full of heartiness, like some "sweet Ebenezer" built by life's way?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The man's assumed heartiness, his manner of joviality and good-fellowship, were only the mask of moral turpitude and blackest purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
"No, thar ain't much danger of that, I allow," said the captain with a heartiness from which all depression of the night before had fled. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
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