William has always been complaisant when it comes to work in the community. From LearnThat.org.
To close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
From what you have just told me, your mother has got the idea, that your husband is what is called a complaisant husband.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Old Lady]
Our hero was seemingly in a very complaisant mood. From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
He is a charming person, -- so graceful and complaisant!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Mobile and complaisant conscience had already forgiven himself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I think the guards will be complaisant, if you play your part well. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
He was still flattered by her complaisant attitude toward his wooing. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
And they were not at all disposed to be complaisant, but were indignant. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
They are out for fun, and therefore in an appreciative and complaisant mood. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917] Reference
Edward Percy was in a very complaisant mood when Claire's letter reached him. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"Eh bien, Madame," replied the complaisant chevalier, "you shall have it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
The sultan of Casgar was so complaisant as to satisfy the barber's curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
It is vain to profess to one's own heart a complaisant dandyism of misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mrs. Lorton drew herself up a little, and her expression grew less complaisant. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
The man was modest and complaisant, and answered readily according to the truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
You must be wise, you must speak but little, and you must be mighty complaisant. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
That man with the mobile and complaisant conscience had already forgiven himself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Possibly it did Elisha's soul no injury to be so far complaisant towards idolatry. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
Olimpia was nearly always complaisant, had no reticences, no conscience, few brains. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
We were even complaisant when we found ourselves crowded into one camp area with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
Observe this young man (pointing to the vice-consul), he is pleasant and complaisant. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
"Oh, no, indeed, Mr. O'Hara!" replied Handy, in his most complaisant manner of speech. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
"So, mademoiselle," he concluded, "be complaisant, and make the best of a bad business.". From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
"I should be happy to make an engagement with you," said the other, in complaisant tones. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
And would the complaisant genius always appear and obey one's behests, in this strange fashion?. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
She, equally complaisant, sends her plate to him; -- desires he will have a bit of the same. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
But it is necessary at least to contemplate the possibility that it would prove less complaisant. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
Britain takes a much less complaisant view of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon than Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Empty Title] Reference
But at least one person in that vast assemblage was far from sharing the monarch's complaisant mood. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
There was nothing to do but be quiet and as complaisant as his captors wished, and await developments. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
It has frightened her into good behavior, and she changes the obnoxious word into one more complaisant. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Manners dignified, mild, and complaisant, and a firmness not to be shaken and of unquestioned integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Herbert, smiling with self-complaisant satisfaction, felt that he had cleverly accomplished his purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
Lindsay expected to find Palmerston more complaisant than formerly as regards American policy and was not disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
And he said nothing when still a third nurse came his way; a woman who was callid, complaisant, and nauseatingly nymphomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [This Crowded Earth] Reference
So yielding, on September 27, he gave Oswald the required commission, but, suspecting that he was rather too complaisant, sent. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
He thought of the complaisant village and peasant girls who happily helped him forget that no woman of noble blood would marry him. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
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