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Hospitality   /hˌɑspətˈæləti/   Listen
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Hospitality  n.  (pl. hospitalities)  The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. "Given to hospitality." "And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality."






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"Hospitality" Quotes from Famous Books



... that you have gone away, until the very moment it will be impossible to overtake you. In the meantime you will have reached Havre, and from Havre across to England, where you will find the charming residence of which M. Monk made me a present, without speaking of the hospitality which King Charles will not fail to show you. Well, what do you ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

... upon the frontier, in time of war with the Indians. Many instances of the generosity and hospitality of the red men are recorded. But when we remember that they made war and the chase the business of their lives, and that they never would be content to till the ground, as the neighbors of the whites we cannot regret that they have disappeared from ...
— Forest & Frontiers • G. A. Henty

... gentle growth, which springs in the heart. The seeds are in your hands and mine; the heart of our foreign people is the soil—the time of planting is now—and the man or woman who by their kindness, their hospitality, their fair dealing, honesty, neighborliness, makes one of the least of these think well of Canada, is a Master ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... a moment, then followed softly. He had set himself the duty of saving the Mission which had shown him hospitality, and was not to be deterred. Moreover, the spirit of adventure was by ...
— The Valiant Runaways • Gertrude Atherton

... weeks' experiment, Rosenblatt, under pressure of an exuberant hospitality, sought to persuade Paulina that, at the sacrifice of some comfort and at the expense of a certain degree of privacy, the unoccupied floor space of her boudoir might be placed at the disposal of a selected number of her countrymen, who for the additional comfort thus ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor


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