Not a particularly impressive little guy, he thought, as they shook hands and exchanged formal amenities.

When we arrange to exchange public amenities, such as plazas, arcades, theaters, etc., for the economic amenity of higher buildings and thus additional square feet of rental space, are we really getting "amenity"?

"I do not believe we need to exchange meaningless social amenities," Crysania stated crisply, her face once more smooth and cold.

Furbetrance introduced Momie and the two young men to the lead crow and they exchanged polite amenities.

A few pieces of political satire show us French and English exchanging amenities on their mutual shortcomings.

I swallowed my impetuosity, and continued to exchange meaningless amenities with the Roman Church three months after I had renounced it.

The curtain falls as the fathers are exchanging amenities, and the Jew giving evidence of an abatement in the strictness of his orthodoxy.

He greeted us in the intimate mode of friends and we exchanged graceful amenities of the sort that fit so well in Spanish and are almost never encountered in English.

Dor exchanged amenities with the skeptical Mrs. Jumper, bade his friend farewell again, promised to return next day--month or so, and strode from the room feeling better.

Wolfe exchanged amenities with Plehn and then he and I got busy.