`Let's go and have a drink,' she said convivially. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a convivial atmosphere. From Dictionary.com.
We laughed, chatted convivially with those around us. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kiss Ever. «] Reference
Jannie stuck her tongue out convivially at her brother, and he gently hip-checked her in return. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary]
They boarded the train in style, with a piper to lead them, and once there, sitting convivially in the observation car, they were offered champagne. From Wordnik.com. [A Kind Of Magic]
He also, as well as his master, had been convivially celebrating his return, and now bore the evidences of his frolic in a sad combination of inflamed features, tangled hair, and disordered clothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
I'm sitting, somewhat amused at myself for creating an entry about such an event, not necessarily amused about a man dying, but about a life well lived that seems so convivially out of place on a Diaryland special. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
While Steve is away, and in honor of the NAS Panel which is so convivially considering the question of the reconstruction of past climate, Dave Stockwell decided to do his own reconstruction using exactly the same methodology as the Hockey Team. From Wordnik.com. [A new reconstruction of past climate « Climate Audit] Reference
English poet Philip Larkin, who was the Daily Telegraph's jazz critic in the 60s, loved jazz passionately from his teens in the mid-1930s to his death, entranced by the joyous and convivially swinging pre-1945 sounds that, as he put it, "once made life sweet". From Wordnik.com. [Various Artists: Larkin's Jazz] Reference
Once when President Franklin Roosevelt dined on Oysters Rockefeller, the appetizer creation of Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans and thought to be America's single greatest contribution to haute cuisine, New Orleans Mayor Robert Maestri leaned over, and in typical Ninth Ward New Orleans-ese convivially queried the President, "How ya like dem ersters?". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
But the pappoose was crowing convivially over a bone. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontiersmen] Reference
Tuesday was emotionally fraught, Thursday convivially lubricated. From Wordnik.com. [Laid-Off Dad] Reference
He lived close to the hotel, and dined there when he felt convivially disposed. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Amulet] Reference
The anchor of Argenta, convivially cozy Cregeen's has been open since fall of 2007. From Wordnik.com. [Arkansas Online stories] Reference
"Have a peach," he said convivially, laying an enormous Late Crawford on the corner of the desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories] Reference
"Cordially, beerily, blearily, convivially yours," is the how she'd close emails if feeling foodie. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Joseph pushed back his chair with considerable vigour, and passed the back of his hand convivially across his moustache. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
As late as August 1864, on the visit to Halifax of some Canadian delegates, he had been convivially eloquent in favour of union. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe] Reference
Of course, he never entered a barroom, and never drank convivially, but he kept liquor in his house, and took it as his choice dictated. From Wordnik.com. [John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher] Reference
At 11: 37, Yoon and Yancey, yin and yang on limits, were convivially chatting, smiling and joking in their adjacent seats in the chamber. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
Mr. Williams convivially snapped a digital picture of the first people in line, Jai Mayers and his wife, Sena, who had arrived at 4: 15 a.m. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
It quietly fills, and thus two or more engines may do their work convivially -- dip in their suction-pipes, and "drink" simultaneously at the same fountain. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade] Reference
Do you leads equivocally and nonsynchronous hirudinean that you see aboral anointing convivially, and can hyalospongiae, from the zoanthropy phylliform, a awake bromeliaceae?. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Macaulay and Isherwood ended their dispute in the way such disputes always seem to end: by convivially inviting each other out for drinks in a show of collegiality that seemed, frankly. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
By eight o'clock we began to feel somewhat more convivially disposed; and before nine, the decanters were performing a quick-step round the table, in a fashion very exhilarating and very jovial to look at. From Wordnik.com. [Charles O'Malley — Volume 1] Reference
The taunts flung at him as he stood on the Town Hall steps, the looks turned in his direction as he walked away with the convivially inclined barrister, the expression on the faces of the men in the big room at the. From Wordnik.com. [The Borough Treasurer] Reference
How could we tolerate the forever loss of mountains and their forest chains and watersheds if we truly experienced these landscapes convivially and reciprocally, as the communities they are, animated with diverse life?. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
The first act of nearly every one who came in was to call for a glass of liquor; and sometimes the same individual drank two or three times in the course of half an hour, on the invitation of new comers who were convivially inclined. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Nights in a Bar Room] Reference
Indira Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Ashok Mehta convivially participating in the meetings of the National Integration Council's committee on communalism, often held in 1961-62 in her father's Teen Murti Marg house at her invitation. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
The awards ceremony, which was by invitation only, is an informal gathering of award recipients, drama critics, theatre practitioners and the media, convivially coming together to celebrate the critics 'personal choice of the best in theatre, from throughout the UK, during the last calendar year. From Wordnik.com. [Playbill.com : News] Reference
“I’d be risking my reputation,” he said convivially. From Wordnik.com. [Aching for Always] Reference
"I saw you when you caught sight of some particularly prosperous looking people at another table and bowed convivially to them as one who says, 'You here, too?. From Wordnik.com. [A Court of Inquiry] Reference
Judge's, wielder of The Rapture, escape from his stalker demon is particularly poignant in this regard), and convivially walking the kids in the park. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Willis, writing later of the festival, said of this speech, "Why, in that large and convivially excited audience, there was not, while he spoke, a wandering eye -- not a pulse or a breath that was not held absolutely captive. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O] Reference
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