amiable

• He has the smoothest canter and the finest mouth that I ever felt; but, with decent regard to appearances, and my private preferences, expressed or understood, he never fails to prance in a manner to strike awe and terror into all beholders, for full five minutes every time I mount him In the common world, I myself am, I trust, often amiable--always in some respects exemplary. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• [11] I therefore shall both mentally and physically describe her to you She is extremely gentle and amiable, her actions are always guided by principles. —  The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
• They knew when he was amiable, and when he was angry, by instinct, by the gleam of his eye, by the way in which he shut the door; but this was something totally unknown to them. —  Phoebe, Junior
• His manner was gravely cheerful; he was perfectly amiable, and was both respected and loved, but he could be a severe though just critic. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• The general is naturally amiable, and he made himself agreeable, sat by the fire, ate potatoes, and contented himself with miserable fare. —  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

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