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
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 Jane Austen
"Not a very pleasant reception," mused Dick, as he sat down on the upturned end of his dress-suit case.
From Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard R. Garis
The latter play, in another translation, was put on as a curtain-raiser to a cinematograph entertainment at a London theatre in 1914; and had quite a pleasant reception from a thoroughly Philistine audience.
From Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Julius West
In the evening a pleasant reception was held, and many invited guests were present.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
