They make the best of it, with cheerful greetings and offers to share food, fire, shelter.

The warm day seemed to infect every- one with a spirit of good humor, inviting smiles and waves and cheerful greetings from all.

The business of sweet sentiments and cheerful greetings is turning ugly.

The bad points are as expected: the 30-minute commute is a lie, passing strangers interrupt my reveries with cheerful greetings, the local pizza parlor uses canned mushrooms.

There was no reserve and anonymity; everyone seemed to know everyone else; cheerful greetings, banter, allusion to social events and mutual friends rang around the room.

No doubt we would find friends in prison; I could almost hear them hooting their cheerful greetings as we were led into the yard and turned loose.

He called cheerful greetings to the half-dozen crewmen he passed, and they nodded back.

They smiled and called out cheerful greetings as the girls appeared.

He was spared the need to invent an excuse by a flurry of cheerful greetings at the front door.

Brutus ran out to meet them and their cheerful greetings died on their lips as they saw his expression.