What is "companionable"

Usage examples of "companionable".

Naer would be sharing a companionable flagon with Fyle, discussing just who they might recognise out of the eager would-be sworn who fetch up after every Festival.

I found some brandy in the kitchen, poured a snifter for her and a companionable dollop for me, and we sat on the couch and talked about pulps and looked at the view.

Back at the Swan in the Moon, I found Sorgrad sharing a companionable meal with Usara in the tap room.

They read in companionable silence, Ishmael picking his way cautiously through the overwritten fastnesses of pulp journalism and town politics and wondering why the humorous account of two Irishmen caught roasting a Chinese in the boiler of his own laundry should shock him so.

For a while they rode in companionable silence, conserving a flagon of fuel by traveling in the high-suction slipstream of a speeding Peterbilt that, judging by the advertisement on its rear doors, was hauling ice-cream treats to hungry snackers west of New Mexico.

I do love a song, I--being a companionable soul and jovial withal, aye, a very bawcock of a boy, I.

She chatted on in this companionable way as they tidied up the wool room.

They settled into a few minutes of companionable silence, letting guitar music be the only sound in the room.

He lowered his stick and set a companionable hand on Heribert's shoulder.

By then he did not miss them, his sense of loneliness was so deeply accepted that it seemed to be his natural and eternal condition, and it was as if he did not look to see the silence broken again He went back no more to the companionable butts of Castell Coch, he was not drawn to the assart above the mill.

But my pen has run away with men I was thinking of Paolo, and what a pleasant thing it is to have one of those child-like, warm-hearted, attachable, cheerful, contented, humble, faithful, companionable, but never presuming grownup children of the South waiting on one, as if everything he could do for one was a pleasure, and carrying a look of content in his face which makes every one who meets him happier for a glimpse of his features.

Manni is too young, too inexperienced to know that Aineko's proportions are those of a domestic cat, Felis catus, a naturally evolved animal rather than the toys and palimpsests and companionables he's used to.

Courteous she was, discreet and debonnaire, Companionable, and she had been so fair Since that same day when she was seven nights old, That truly she had taken the heart to hold Of Chanticleer, locked in her every limb.

They walked away from the Crowing Cock in companionable silence, both of them relaxed from their baths and full bellies.

He seemed a companionable sort, and she was glad to have found passage with an able captain who could also fight like a bee-stung bear.