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Strikes me that Heman's sociableness is the best sign yet.

From Cy Whittaker's Place by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Human terror at superiority over natural law is highly ludicrous when the superiority is evinced as though it were ordinary, negligible, and compatible with sociableness.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.

But the kindly sociableness of these Dutch prevented any decidedly vicious tendency among them, and went far toward making amends for any real or supposed laxity in religious principles.

From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Holliday, Carl

And now all this atmosphere of quiet sociableness was about to be destroyed through the paltry misdemeanours of a subfuse cat.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

And such was Mr. Clare's sociableness and disability of detaching himself from pleasant conversation, that the uncle and nephew scarcely started for their walk across the park in time for the seven o'clock service.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary