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“Watch out below!” he called amiably, then double-checked that the alligator clips were firmly in place, shut the service-box door, and shinnied back down the pole.

Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

"Come here, girl!" she called amiably in a quavery old-woman voice.

Legacy James H. Schmitz 1946

"But it's half an hour earlier," he protests, in a manner the interviewer calls "amiably disingenuous".

Media Monkey's Diary 2011

"But it's half an hour earlier," he protests, in a manner the interviewer calls "amiably disingenuous".

Media Monkey's Diary 2011

He handled Palin deftly (which is to say amiably and without making a big deal of the fact that she wasn't actually answering the questions), and exhibited a clear grasp of what he was out there to do.

Charging RINO 2008

Even when he was working on a shoestring, he revealed the kind of amiably creative flair that is often overlooked by film snobs in their unending quest for audience-unfriendly breakthroughs to punish the paying customers for their bourgeois tastes.

Burns' Comic Realism Remains, His Brothers Are Gone 1998

These colleagues were as we had hoped amiably ruthless in discerning “opportunities for improvement” in that draft.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

It's not exactly Alan Bennett, but it proceeds amiably enough from one well-worn double entendre to the next – and Tim Healy's transvestite barman alone banishes the temptation to channel-hop.

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Richard Tresvant is a very good friend of mine…despite the substantial age difference, Walter Bumgaarten replied amiably.

Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011

Richard Tresvant is a very good friend of mine…despite the substantial age difference, Walter Bumgaarten replied amiably.

Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011