1 It so happened that Beth's funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once.
2 There are some pleasant people in the house if you feel sociable, and your evenings are always free.
3 "That's a sociable arrangement," said Amy, missing something in Laurie's manner, though she couldn't tell what.
4 It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
5 The business of eating being concluded, and no one uttering a word of sociable conversation, I approached a window to examine the weather.
6 They spoke of every-day things, of the prospect of snow, of the next church sociable, of the loves and quarrels of Starkfield.
7 But they were a sociable family and liked their neighbors, especially the O'Hara girls.
8 One always felt that an orderly and very sociable kind of life was going on there.
9 And they train them, and pet them, and learn them tricks, and they get to be as sociable as flies.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 10 The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance.
11 Candide being desirous of selecting from among the best, marked out about one-twentieth of them who seemed to be sociable men, and who all pretended to merit his preference.
12 There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished.
13 His sociability was stronger than his acquisitive instinct.
14 But the effect of coming into society and light after lonely wandering in darkness is a sociability in the comer above its usual pitch, expressed in the features even more than in words.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 15 No one understood that rehearsals were as real engagements as bridge-games or sociables at the Episcopal Church.