pleasant reception

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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

Wishing to give them a pleasant reception, one of my petty officers played the violin and the sailors danced.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon

A pleasant reception also was given by the Woman's Club in their commodious parlors.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

I had expected a much less pleasant reception.

From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by Todhunter, John

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