sociableness

Example Sentences

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Here is a great deal of good company, and abundance of gentry being in the neighbourhood, it adds to the sociableness of the place. 

From From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" by Morley, Henry

But the kindly sociableness of these Dutch prevented any decidedly vicious tendency among them, and went far toward making amends for any real or supposed laxity in religious principles.

From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Holliday, Carl

Without his sociableness they will soon become frigid.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.

Such is the sociableness of music, it conforms itself to all companies both in mirth and mourning; complying to improve that passion with which it finds the auditors most affected.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

The every sociableness of the gathering was a paradox: the truth lay with the ice-capped hills and the ape-like nomads who infested the humid forests of the lower slopes.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis