She was the most graceful creature I have ever seen, I think, and surely merrier lips and eyes were never seeneyes very blue and softhair golden, and flowing like sunset on her shouldersa mouth which had a charming archness in itand withal an innocence and modesty which made one purer.

Then she nestled more closely down, and said with gay, unconscious archness: "I'm not hiding because I'm afraid of him.

She was clearly not shy, Mrs. David E. Drack, yet neither was she ominously bold; she was bland and "good," Julia made sure at a glance, and of a large complacency, as the good and the bland are apt to bea large complacency, a large sentimentality, a large innocent, elephantine archness: she fairly rioted in that dimension of size.

Meanwhile Garrick "played round Johnson with a fond vivacity, taking hold of the breasts of his coat, looking up in his face with a lively archness," and complimenting him on his good health.

" "I could have told you that half an hour ago, my dear," Mrs. Abbey responded with playful archness.

A school-teacher leading her troop of merry children on their morning walk around the bastion, nodded to us pleasantly and forthwith the whole company of chubby-cheeked rogues, looking up at us with a pleasant archness, lisped a "guten morgen" that made the hearts glad within us.

Spenser has imitated this sublime piece of pleasantry; for, by a curious intermixture of all which the mind can experience from such a fiction, pleasant it is in the midst of its sublimity,laughable with satirical archness, as well as grand and terrible in the climax.

When we think of that tiger burning in the forests of the night, how shall we reconcile his fearful symmetry with eyes "azure as the heavens," which Pope describes as having a surprising archness in them?

Then she nestled more closely down, and said with gay, unconscious archness: "I'm not hiding because I'm afraid of him.