at one's ease
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The document continues, "Ghislaine is highly intelligent, and great company with a ready smile and an infectious laugh who always puts one at one's ease, and always makes one feel welcome."
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True, their meetings were but childish play, but at the end of the enclosure, under the apple trees, there was a delightful nook where one could laugh and chat and amuse oneself at one's ease.
From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
In that family one felt very much at one's ease, light and warm, and I perfectly understand a certain author who said that he was in love with all the Chekhovs at the same time.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Bunin, I. A.
I want a gentle, genial old man; with whom one would feel at one's ease in a moment.
From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
I do not know a more luxurious state, sir, than sitting at one's ease to be entertained a whole evening by two such young women; sometimes with music and sometimes with conversation.
From Emma by Austen, Jane
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