English vocabulary examples in context: affability
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 1.
He went up to Madame Stahl, and addressed her with extreme courtesy and affability in that excellent French that so few speak nowadays.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 2.
I can tell you one day she posted herself on the top of the belfry of the village to call some labourers of theirs that were in a ploughed field of her father's, and though they were better than half a league off they heard her as well as if they were at the foot of the tower; and the best of her is that she is not a bit prudish, for she has plenty of affability, and jokes with everybody, and has a grin and a jest for everything.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 3.
His manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 4.
The subject elevated him to more than usual solemnity of manner, and with a most important aspect he protested that ``he had never in his life witnessed such behaviour in a person of rank---such affability and condescension, as he had himself experienced from Lady Catherine.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 5.
Lady Catherine was reckoned proud by many people he knew, but \emph{he} had never seen anything but affability in her.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 6.
She is all affability and condescension, and I doubt not but you will be honoured with some portion of her notice when service is over.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 7.
I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability, that it would happen.
Vocabulary in context: affability -- Example 8.
But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers- but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.
