Their freedom, their energy, their companionableness, was so different from women of the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

There was another and quieter side in which he showed his rare companionableness and endeared himself to many people.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

For what is lost personally now and then, far more of greater mutual value is obtained; and it is largely by a habit of companionableness that the happiness of the home can be made so satisfying that there can arise no question of its permanence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

William Howitt was always ready to lend an attentive and unbiassed ear to the newest theory, or even the newest fad, while Mary possessed in the fullest degree the gift of companionableness, and her inexhaustible sympathy drew from others an instant confidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Peter's sweet-tempered companionableness had been oddly obscured this evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lee Shore] Reference

But before we realize its greatness, we realize its pleasantness, its companionableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference

By the time we arrived at the site, I did almost feel the beginnings of companionableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

It must be acknowledged, that of companionableness, and disinterested attachment and gratitude, the pointer knows comparatively little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

His unremit - ting zeal and energy was relieved by the frankness of a cheeiful companionableness when the labours of the day were ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference

The bases of your Association are not, as my friend, Colonel Clark, intimated in his opening remarks, altogether in your companionableness and good fellowship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Conditions and Imperial Defence] Reference

Your ease and dignity and complacency, as well as your altogether companionableness, leads one to think that you are quite at home as an Empire Club in Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Conditions and Problems] Reference

Very curious was the conflict in her face; her strong natural companionableness, her suspicion of him, and her sense of the dignity which her situation demanded, contending together.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dozen Ways Of Love] Reference

They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour, as they travelled, was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what her future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

She herself meant eventually to marry, because one couldn't forever hang on to rich people; but she was going to wait till she found some one who combined the maximum of wealth with at least a minimum of companionableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glimpses of the Moon] Reference

The conversation was evidently serious; his head was bent, and Isabel's lifted left hand rested against her cheek; but all the significances of their thoughtful attitude denoted companionableness and a shared understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference

The conversation was evidently serious; his head was bent, and Isabel’s lifted left hand rested against her cheek; but all the significances of their thoughtful attitude denoted companionableness and a shared understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 20] Reference

He had learned to conform to the requirements of a social etiquette to which he had been a stranger; yet without losing the heartiness of manner and genial companionableness with all men which was, indeed, his greatest personal charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics] Reference

Later she thawed out, assumed a friendly companionableness to these despised individuals and, in order to raise Niebeldingk's delight to the highest point, admitted with maidenly frankness the indescribable and mysterious attraction toward him which she had felt at the first glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference

By a pretended affability he had succeeded in lulling their first alarm, and in restoring Count Egmont in particular to his former perfect confidence, for which purpose he artfully employed his sons, Ferdinand and Frederick of Toledo, whose companionableness and youth assimilated more easily with the Flemish character.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04] Reference

The even gentleness of his rich voice, his unfailing courtesy and good temper, his quick eye for harmless pleasantries, his hearty laugh, the Quaker-like calmness, deliberateness, and meekness, with which he would meet objections and argue the righteousness of his cause, his sweet reasonableness and companionableness were in strange contrast to popular misconceptions and caricatures of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference

A certain charm which may be called companionableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West] Reference

A man's face per se has no more to do with his worthiness and companionableness than the color of his eyes or the shades of his hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voice From the South] Reference

He used to say that people fought in a hundred ways ” with their humour, their companionableness, their kindness, their friendliness ” it need not be violent, and indeed if it was violent, that was fighting on the wrong side ” it had only to be calm and sincere and dutiful.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Payne]

She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her companionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense and energy and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little difficulties and privations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma] Reference

She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her companionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little difficulties and privations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma] Reference

The harshness that appears in his controversial writings, and the somewhat unsympathetic austerity that seems to be indicated by his relations with his first wife and his children, are to be counterbalanced in our minds by the impression of companionableness that we derive from the picture of the old blind poet, sought out by many who not merely admired his greatness, but found pleasure in his society, and counted it a privilege to talk with him and read to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introductory Note] Reference

They were three days on their journey, and Marianne’s behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma’s losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour’s ennui, from the want of her companionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little difficulties and privations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma] Reference