Adjective : a sociable evening at the home of friends. From Dictionary.com.
D'ye know, "sociably," I was visitin 'with my aunt Mis' Mulcahy last evenin '. ". From Wordnik.com. [Buttered Side Down] Reference
"I am Andrew Hedges," he explained, smiling sociably. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
Old Mortin slapped the Dwarf sociably on the shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Reiffeins Choice] Reference
Slowly and sociably, with full pauses and straight dashes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Everyone around me was smiling sociably at everyone around me. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Salmansohn: The Power To Change Our World's Storylines: Donna Karan's Urban Zen] Reference
"How be you this fine day, miss?" the old fellow asked sociably. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
Man dropping in sociably to chat with Mr. Knight in his library. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man] Reference
Mr. Thayer, and spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams, very sociably. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756] Reference
After the two had gazed sociably at each other for a few moments the. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Tod Greeley and old Townley more than the others, and chatted sociably. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
So why should little Solomon have sat sociably cuddled down beside her?. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
The stew was steaming hot, and the three gathered sociably about the table. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference
So he accepted the stranger's proposal, and they walked on very sociably together. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference
They were making a bit of toilet sociably together in Mrs. Baroda's dressing-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
"We shall have quite a lot of fresh people in the neighbourhood," she remarked sociably. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
“Edward hiking this weekend?” he asked sociably as we walked out into the light rain. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse]
The old sofa was drawn up sociably, and a chair of state had been provided for Mrs. Howard. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference
'I'm afraid I don't know this game,' Spink said sociably as she assigned a colour to each of us. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
"Brooks," said Burrill, taking him sociably by the arm, and facing toward the saloon in question. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
"Says if yo 'sociably inclined, be honnered to make yo' acquaintance over a little glass or two.". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
The two walked along together, chatting sociably on subjects that meant nothing to either of them. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference
He settled his feathers, preened his wine pinions and then asked me sociably, "How are you doing?". From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
And here taking out what he said he had brought, the pair made their repast peaceably and sociably. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
The bolder ones even found a perch on his shoulders or head, chatting sociably or scolding at each other. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
It lacks several hours of daybreak; and as I feel somewhat sociably inclined, suppose I tell you my story?. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
And as for men, towards them as naturally partakers of the same reason, my care is to carry myself sociably. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
He murmured: "I'll be darned!" in a dazed sort of a way as he felt her muscle, and Mary Rose went on sociably. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
Ancient Egyptians have long been known as prodigious beer drinkers, sipping brews both sociably and as medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Mummy Beerest] Reference
"Cobbler" Horn yearned to give the man a hearty shake of the hand, and ask him sociably how he had been getting on. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
By the bye though, "he continued, wheeling round his chair sociably beside mine," do you know that the Bath water taken. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
He only half wanted to go, for, though sociably inclined, he was bashful, but the girls had promised not to desert him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference
Reaching for a pad of paper he jotted down some options, commenting on each to faithful Koko, who was loitering sociably. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]
There was such a sly look in the starboard eye of the old fellow as he spoke, that I laughed outright, and asked, sociably. From Wordnik.com. [New National Fourth Reader] Reference
As I went into the car there were three men at one end talking rather loud and sociably, and I went as near to them as I dared. From Wordnik.com. [A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"] Reference
At Trinity, Cambridge (where offenders were sociably flogged before the assembled College on Friday evenings) the age was eighteen. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
No; stay here, Miss Vernon, and show to this little portion of the world that man and woman can live together sociably and honorably. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
Now, if I want to ask a few of our set in sociably to dinner, I can't have them where we eat down-cellar, -- oh, that would never do!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Carol sat down sociably on the side of the bed, politely ignoring Connie's feeble attempt to keep the crumpled manuscript from her sight. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
We kept him in the road slightly ahead of us, with our horses on his two flanks, and chatted as sociably as the circumstances would permit. From Wordnik.com. [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference
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