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.

From Time Magazine Archive

No wonder, when he showed that there were not found in it five gentlemen who could give a dinner at which a scholar and gentleman could find congenial companionship.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

Subsequently Alberoni was appointed to a more northern country, where he may find congenial society; for, in a despotism tempered only by assassination, the knees of all become pliant before power.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard

I love to walk, and there are SO few people that I find congenial company.

From Keziah Coffin by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Northern scholars, like Rudolf Agricola, hurried south to find congenial air at the centre of intellectual life.

From English Travellers of the Renaissance by Howard, Clare