| 1. | All the geniality had faded out of Whittington's face. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | There was a sort of hideous geniality in the last words which Tuppence did not at all like. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | It is the armchair geniality of the eighteenth century essayists, a constituent of the author rather than of his material and product. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | His ready smile, his tendency to promote harmony and his general geniality bring him love and keep it for him while more clever types lose it. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 5. | Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he could so readily assume. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | Then he began to chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy's pretense of animation merge into reality. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 7. | "What year did you enter the service" he asked with that affectation of military bluntness and geniality with which he always addressed the soldiers. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |