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
My visit ended with a pleasant reception, at which I was introduced to the chaplain, several professors, and many ladies and gentlemen ready to accept the situation.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I hope you found a pleasant reception there?"
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
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
In January, 1818, having been assured that he would find work in Charleston, S. C., he sailed from New York, and met with a pleasant reception in the home of his uncle, Dr. Finley.
From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton
