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One of the most obvious defects which struck me in this and two or three other families, whom I afterward visited, was the want of companionableness in the daughters.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

In his personal following, the companionableness of twenty years had deepened into an almost romantic loyalty.

From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)

These qualities in her, with a certain genial, unobtrusive companionableness, had long ago won his warm friendship.

From The Delafield Affair by Kelly, Florence Finch

Very curious was the conflict in her face; her strong natural companionableness, her suspicion of him, and her sense of the dignity which her situation demanded, contending together.

From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Dougall, Lily

Peter's sweet-tempered companionableness had been oddly obscured this evening.

From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame