find congenial
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Last week the district held its third recall election in three years to decide which faction had the majority to hire a superintendent it would find congenial.
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Father and daughter seemed influenced by a glad hope that their future lives would find congenial association through this renewed confiding.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Lee, Carson Jay
Leonardo da Vinci could find congenial relaxation in scientific researches and invention, and our own Fulton was a painter whose scientific studies resulted in steam navigation.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)
"Perhaps you felt the place rather strange at first, and now, as you find congenial acquaintances, you feel, as we English say, 'more at home.'"
From The Man Who Rose Again by Hocking, Joseph
She tried to get him interested in her Settlement work and offered to find for him duties which he would find congenial.
From John Marsh's Millions by Hornblow, Arthur