Example Sentences

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Alice received her sister-in-law with evident pleasure, though not perhaps that of pure hospitableness.

From Demos by Gissing, George

The Cuban sprang towards me with an immense anxiety of hospitableness.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

This was, indeed, what nobody had thought of—and even now we did not think any one could be so lost to proper hospitableness as to say no.

From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

It had the grave and heavy hospitableness of a picture of Teniers or Jan Steen.

From The Judgment House by Parker, Gilbert