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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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