"Cordial reception" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the herd had started for home the next morning, Uncle Lance and I returned to Santa Maria. We were extended a cordial reception by Don Mateo, and after the chronicle of happenings since the two rancheros last met had been reviewed, the motive of our sudden return was mentioned. By combining the vocabularies of my employer and myself, we mentioned our errand as delicately as possible, ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... tales for boys and youth has met with anything like the cordial reception and popularity accorded to the Frank Merriwell Stories, published exclusively in Street & Smith's Tip Top Weekly, a publication which has today a circulation larger than that of all ...
— The Camp in the Snow - Besiedged by Danger • William Murray Graydon
... the Government had given no sign that the Devolution movement might not find favour in their sight. Had its main objects met with a more cordial reception from the arbiters of the national policy it is more than probable that the Unionist Government would have stood sponsor for a large and generous instalment of self-government which would have received the joyous assent of the Liberal Party and passed through both Houses ...
— Ireland Since Parnell • Daniel Desmond Sheehan
... farewell; a letter from the Doctor; Ngaraiso, hostility of the Wakimbu, enter Ugogo; warlike demonstrations, march of warriors arrayed for the fight; Khonze, its gigantic tree-foliage; determined mode of dealing with the chief successfull; Kanyenyi, cordial reception by the Msagira of; Mapanga, hostile demonstration; asked to act as rain-maker; Kulabi, suffer from a "peppo"; Marenga Mkali; Mpwapwa, death of Farquhar; Mukondokwa valley, experience of the Masika; Makata plain, battling with ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley
... prominent place, and it would seem scarcely possible that the wife did not know whose bullet had turned her for some weeks into a sick-nurse. For Herndon he had not even a second thought, but the possible ordeal of a woman's tongue was another matter. A cordial reception could hardly be anticipated, and Hampton mentally braced himself ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
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