Adjective : a sociable evening at the home of friends. From Dictionary.com.
That sociableness is the cure of this evil. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
He being also a bird above many, that loveth to maintain a kind of sociableness with men. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
So they looked, and Mercy wondered; but Christiana said, What a disparagement is it to such a little pretty bird as the Robin-red-breast is, he being also a bird above many that loveth to maintain a kind of sociableness with man; I had thought they had lived upon crums of bread, or upon other such harmless matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 100-199] Reference
Mr. Lane does not confound society with sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
But the kindly sociableness of these Dutch prevented any decidedly vicious tendency among them, and went far toward making amends for any real or supposed laxity in religious principles. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference
The impetus to development Kant found in the restlessness arising from the conflict in man between his social and antisocial tendencies, in what he calls the unsocial sociableness of man, his desire for gain and power, his greed and competitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
And the same may be said of their dispositions, for the wild, and unsociable, and the passionate occur in such a constitution; for frequent excitement of the mind induces wildness, and extinguishes sociableness and mildness of disposition, and therefore I think the inhabitants of. From Wordnik.com. [On Airs, Waters, And Places] Reference
But of this sociableness William was entirely destitute. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
His sociableness and perfect openness of expression I was quite delighted with. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Father Hecker] Reference
There is a heartiness among them that is more like Cornwall than any I have known, and great sociableness. '. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope's Irish Experiences] Reference
The sociableness, the discipline, the division of responsibility make factory work a dangerous rival to domestic care. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
And now all this atmosphere of quiet sociableness was about to be destroyed through the paltry misdemeanours of a subfuse cat. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914] Reference
Here is a great deal of good company, and abundance of gentry being in the neighbourhood, it adds to the sociableness of the place. From Wordnik.com. [From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"] Reference
Negroes and Moors, great humanity and sociableness, which gave me strong hopes that I should be very safe amongst them, and meet with the success. From Wordnik.com. [Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects] Reference
His ravenish, unpleasant voice seemed to act on the company like a chill wind, depriving treason of its warm sociableness but leaving in the sting. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference
The every sociableness of the gathering was a paradox: the truth lay with the ice-capped hills and the ape-like nomads who infested the humid forests of the lower slopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
There has been no great loss, though -- apart from the missing of sociableness -- if one may judge the arguments that satisfy my clerical friends from the analogies they use in the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
His wife and children, gentle, quiet, and benevolent, did not indeed increase the sociableness of our house; for they kept to themselves: but a stillness, a peace, returned, which we had not enjoyed for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
The activity, however, and sociableness of his nature soon conquered this repugnance; and, from being, as he himself says, “a most unpopular boy,” he rose at length to be a leader in all the sports, schemes, and mischief of the school. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron]
At any rate Fleda never felt that she had any reason to fear tiring him; and his mother complaining of his want of sociableness said she believed Guy did not like to talk to anybody but that little pet of his and one or two of the old sailors. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Now perhaps we do not always connect the ideas of sociableness and freedom of discussion with the days of Puritan rule; yet it must be admitted that something like geniality and openness characterized what Pepys calls the Coffee Club of the Rota. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
At any rate, Fleda never felt that she had any reason to fear tiring him; and his mother, complaining of his want of sociableness, said she believed Guy did not like to talk to anybody but that little pet of his, and one or two of the old sailors. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
At any rate, Fleda never felt that she had any reason to fear tiring him; and his mother, complaining of his want of sociableness, said she believed Guy did not like to talk to any-body but that little pet of his, and one or two of the old sailors. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume I] Reference
She is a sort of relation, Miss Susanna is, a farback one, but nothing is too far back to claim here, and everybody who is anybody is kin to one another, or kin to some one else's kin, which makes for sociableness, and I am having a perfectly grand time. From Wordnik.com. [Kitty Canary] Reference
Indeed, he was a very good sort of man, but such a worldling, with his thick gold chain, and jaunty clothes, and quick way of adjusting himself to passing circumstances, that it was some time before his good-natured sociableness won in the least upon the station loungers. From Wordnik.com. [A Dozen Ways Of Love] Reference
Indeed such an ambassador ` s usefulness lies not so much in work appertaining to his official capacity as to the indirect service he can render by his sociableness, and by his character, which leaves its impress upon anything and anybody that it comes in contact with officially or otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [PART IV] Reference
Ellen had taken the empty pan to lay her flowers in, thinking it would be better for them than the heat of her hand; and greatly pleased with what she had come to see, and enjoying her walk as much as it was possible, she was going home very happy! yet she could not help missing Mr. Van Brunt's old sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
Ellen had taken the empty pan to lay her flowers in, thinking it would be better for them than the heat of her hand; and greatly pleased with what she had come to see, and enjoying her walk as much as it was possible, she was going home very happy; yet she could not help missing Mr. Van Brunt's old sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
"Yes, sir," you would hear him say, addressing a smoking-room audience of less experienced travelers, "my idee is that a fellow ought to go over on an English ship, if he likes the exclusability, and come back on a German ship if he likes the sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
And I was greatly in danger of being treated as a surly bear, refusing to dance for his keeper; since one of mine seemed very much disposed to gratify the spectator, and had actually begun sharpening the end of a ten foot hickory, for the purpose of pricking me into more sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
No, it's only a matter of curiosity and just sociableness. ". From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference
Mr. Van Brunt's old sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
Lane does not confound society with sociableness. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
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