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  • And I was beginning to drink, not for hospitality's sake, not for the sake of the taste, but for the effect of the drink.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW": Now, I know it is customary in Pakistan to offer tea to a guest for hospitality's sake.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2006 2006

  • JON STEWART, HOST, COMEDY CENTRAL'S "THE DAILY SHOW": I know it is customary in Pakistan to offer tea to a guest for hospitality's sake.

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2006 2006

  • She was here only by accident, tolerated gayly for hospitality's sake, her coming and going only an insignificant episode in their lives.

    The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Company manners, the outward and visible sign of hospitality's inward and spiritual grace, can prevail in an inn, for the simple reason that no matter how often one returns, exactly as often one departs.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • And I was beginning to drink, not for hospitality's sake, not for the sake of the taste, but for the effect of the drink.

    Chapter XXX 1913

  • Carolina mountains, but the doors are not left open for hygiene's sake, or even in hospitality's good name.

    A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

  • And I was beginning to drink, not for hospitality's sake, not for the sake of the taste, but for the effect of the drink.

    John Barleycorn Jack London 1896

  • I knew Ross Curtis of the Bay Horse, and that I would be welcome as a snow-bound pilgrim, both for hospitality's sake and because Ross had few chances to confide in living creatures who did not neigh, bellow, bleat, yelp, or howl during his discourse.

    Waifs and Strays Part 1 O. Henry 1886

  • He had tried hard to be allowed to open a fresh bottle, but the Captain had made such a point of his not doing so, that he had given in for hospitality's sake.

    Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

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