1 And there were other people in Atlanta who would come to her parties, other people far more congenial than those hide-bound old hens.
2 Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
3 From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate.
4 But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
5 He was a widower, and found very little congenial companionship in this casual Western city.
6 So he had come back because the Mexicans were not congenial; because business was as profitable here as there; because of any reason, and not because he cared to be near her.
7 Jurgis got himself a place in a boardinghouse with some congenial friends.
8 And then, explained Schliemann, society would break up into independent, self-governing communities of mutually congenial persons; examples of which at present were clubs, churches, and political parties.
9 Just at present, however, Aunt Chloe is looking into the bake-pan; in which congenial operation we shall leave her till we finish our picture of the cottage.
10 But, if congenial to philosophy, it is apt to be dangerous to the commonwealth.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 11 Rejected suitors take to roaming as naturally as unhived bees; and the business to which he had cynically devoted himself was in many ways congenial to Venn.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 12 The noise of the wind over the heath was shrill, and as if it whistled for joy at finding a night so congenial as this.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 13 He hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his congenial hunt.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET 14 Holmes returned to his seat with that quiet look of inward satisfaction which meant that he had a congenial task before him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 3. The Problem 15 I have already explained to you, however, that my career had in any case reached its crisis, and that no possible conclusion to it could be more congenial to me than this.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem