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

It was not a pleasant reception but, as a matter of fact, the man ordinarily affable was nervous and consequently irritable.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

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

You freshies walked right in on us to-night, and we gave you a pleasant reception.

From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Standish, Burt L.

It was a pleasant reception room, not very bookish in aspect, but in my agitation I was too eager to feel surprised by the large billiard table in the offing.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher