The bonhomous little Poltroyans had become humanity's most enthusiastic trading partners and closest allies.

Wilkinson's has a bonhomous, low-key ambiance that can be disrupted when the room fills up and the conversation amplifies.

Our bonhomous maitre d'hotel cruised into sight bearing two miniature amuse bouches.

So it's that much more palatable if those policies are put forward in an agreeable way by a bonhomous U.S. ambassador."

There's such an air of bonhomous familiarity to those who grew up in the seventies and the eighties, reading Vikatan jokes about actresses named Kalasri."

Wycliffe tolerates rather than welcomes visits from his immediate superior, the bonhomous Deputy Chief Constable Bellings.

In his review for The New Yorker, James Wood wrote, "Mandanipour's writing is exuberant, bonhomous, clever, profuse with puns and literary-political references."

The main room is not particularly distinguished - a mix of brick walls and faint flowered wallpaper, bright lighting, well-spaced tables -but it assumes a festive air when filled with bonhomous customers.

He was dressed in sober black-and-white checked trousers, with a plain cotton golf shirt and a navy blazer, and was going through his familiar bonhomous routine with everyone within reach at the bar.

Thus grew up the large, bonhomous establishments dispensing beer, white wines and a variety of Alsatian dishes, principally choucroute (sauerkraut cooked in white wine with numerous garnishes), that became known as brasseries.

Le Lucky Strike offers the congenially grungy atmosphere of an ancient haunt in Les Halles: a derma of pallid yellow paint, a bonhomous bar, tightly arranged tabloid size tables, vinyl banquettes and overhead fans.

Dahlia Travers (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia.

Pass the bonhomous bar and enter a vast dining room with veined marble walls yellowed from decades of cigarette smoke, faded neon lights that give the room the look of an old sepia photograph and long rows of tables where you can't help but strike up a conversation with neighbors.