His gait, although naturally carefree, had in it, however, a somewhat affected daintiness.

A girl dressed in white, with a large diaphanous white hat and a general air of brisk English daintiness, was paddling slowly and with no great skill.

Now this product of the loom is a device of barbarian luxury and from them has come down even to us to satisfy the excessive daintiness of veritable women.

He recalled the exquisite daintiness of her appearance, her ruffles of lace, the winning sweetness of her eyes.

Such a morsel of heavenly daintiness did not often drop in his path now that he was fasting in this purgatory of a village.

That last remark has been made many, many times, and yet it never fails of its effect, which is at once to invest the speaker with daintiness indescribable, and to thrust the man addressed into nether inferiority.

She stood there waiting for him, a thing of infinite daintiness, the one object untouched in that ravaged garden.

Martha Josselyn had asked her yesterday about the stitch,some little baby-daintiness she had thought of for the mother who couldn't afford embroideries and thread-laces for her youngest and least of so many.

She herself, in a blouse of marvellous daintiness and sweeping skirts, stood beside the visitor from London to present her.

And in the midst, without doubt, stood Peregrine Oakshott, in such a dress as was usually worn by gentlemen in the morninga loose wrapping coat, though with fine lace cuffs and cravat, all, like the shoes and silk stockings, worn with his peculiar daintiness, and, as was usual when full-bottomed wigs were the rule in grande tenue, its place supplied by a silken cap.

Even in that glance he saw her mother's prettiness, her pink and white daintiness, and the yellow shine of her hair.

There is a rare daintiness, however, in these graceful figures, so essentially Giorgionesque in their fanciful presentation, the young Apollo, a lovely, fair-haired boy, pursuing a maiden with flowing tresses, whose identity with Daphne is only to be recognised by the laurel springing from her fingers.

As she laughed with the General her student noted further what seemed to him a rare silkiness in the tresses, a vapory lightness in the short strands that played over the outlines of temple and forehead, and the unstudied daintiness with which they gathered into the merest mist of a short curl before her exquisite ear.

It breathed an aroma that seemed the quintessence of angelica and hyssop blended with sea-weeds and of iodines and bromes hidden in sweet essences, and it stimulated the palate with a spiritous ardor concealed under a virginal daintiness, and charmed the sense of smell by a pungency enveloped in a caress innocent and devout.