Literary notes about agreeable (AI summary)
Writers employ "agreeable" in a remarkably versatile manner to evoke pleasant sensations, personalities, and atmospheres. It is often used to denote physical comfort or a pleasing sensation, as when a gentle warmth overtakes one’s being [1] or when nature itself displays an agreeable quality through a refreshing south wind [2]. The word also characterizes characters and relationships, suggesting amiability or social ease—consider sentiments about a companion’s agreeable nature [3] or remarks about a person's charming, silent demeanor [4]. Moreover, "agreeable" finds its place in nuanced commentary on aesthetics, whether describing a flavorably sweet fruit [5], a refined undercurrent in a voice [6], or even an arrangement of hues that harmonize pleasingly [7]. This multifaceted use underscores its role as a bridge between sensory pleasure and virtuous personal qualities in literature [8][9].
- In spite of myself, an agreeable warmth spread over me.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - 3. The weathercock now shows that an agreeable south wind blows.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed - Porthos gained fifty pistoles from Groslow, and found him a more agreeable companion than he had at first believed him to be.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - Lady Middleton was more agreeable than her mother only in being more silent.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - when they are black and of a Sweet agreeable flavor.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - She received us with great dignity, but yet there was an agreeable undercurrent in her voice and manner which I thought very promising.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - The various shades of the sand are singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - Wit, and a certain easy and disengaged behaviour, are qualities immediately agreeable to others, and command their love and esteem.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Governor Wright’s description of the trip says: “The warm hospitality of the Filipino people made this trip of inspection a most agreeable one.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount