pleasant reception

Example Sentences

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But the King demurred: perhaps he recalled his pleasant reception in Washington last year, the warm words of Winston Churchill at Quebec.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lloyd's sloop, esteemed it a great privilege to be the bearers of parcels or messages to my new mistress; for whenever they came, they were sure of a most kind and pleasant reception.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

Thus, among ourselves, we had a pleasant reception and a discussion of many phases of the question that brought us together.

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The Sultan Yakoub gave a pleasant reception to those who came, and made them suitable gifts.

From Malayan Literature by Various

She was sure of a pleasant reception; and her friend seemed this morning particularly obliged to her for coming, seemed hardly to have expected her, though it had been an appointment.

From Persuasion by Austen, Jane