Gracefulness seemed to play in all her motions; the airy lightness with which she floated alongas buoyant as thistle-downdrew forth a general murmur of admiration.

The material was the silver-like metal of which most Martial vessels and furniture are formed, every spar, pole, and cross-piece being a hollow cylinder; a construction which, with the extreme lightness of the metal itself, made the carriage far lighter than any I had seen on Earth.

To have imagined that the feather rose owing to its "specific lightness," and that the quill fell owing to its "heaviness," would to many appear a more decided effort of the imaginative faculty.

To elevate its character and extend its influence rank among our most important duties, and the best means to accomplish this desirable end are those which will rivet the attachment of our citizens to the Government of their choice by the comparative lightness of their public burthens and by the attraction which the superior success of its operations will present to the admiration and respect of the world.

It needs a peculiar lightness of hand to give grace to these colloquial numbers, and the author of Ionica is more at home in the dryad-haunted forest with Comatas.

"It is such a remarkable story, father, it ought not to be spoiled by giving away its plot," she said, with assumed lightness.

I recollect only an ethereal lightness of limb, and a sense of soul-emancipation and peace, a sense of soul-emancipation such as one might feel were he to awaken on a sunny summer morning to find that sorrow and sin were gone from the world for ever, a peace ample and restful as the hallowed hush and awe of twilight, without the twilight's tender pain.

A small pinch of carbonate of soda will give an extraordinary lightness to puff pastes; and, introduced into the teapot, will extract the full strength of the tea.

" After the prayers were over, and we had descended to the floor of the mosque, I spent the rest of my time under the dome, fascinated by its marvellous lightness and beauty.

The stiffness acquired under regimental tuition, is adverse to all the principles of grace, and annihilates that buoyant lightness which is so conducive to ease and elegance in the young.

The subject of each is slight; each stroke of her brush is made once and for all, with a precision and dash that are inspiriting; and you have in each painting the sparkle, the deft lightness of touch, the instantaneous impression of form and coloring that a water-color should have.

But every single dictum of Melbourne's has got something original and graceful about italways full of good sense, never pompous, always with a delicious lightness of touch.

" Her eyes overflowed as she made an end, but Stoddard adopted a tone of determined lightness.

It was then that the cathedral of Rouen was built, with its elegant lightness,a marvel to modern travellers.

The sensations it then produced were those, physically, of exquisite lightness and airinessof a wonderfully keen perception of the ludicrous, in the most simple and familiar objects.

To go on in such a manner was most wearisome, and I was well-nigh at the end of my strength when a faint lightness in the eastern sky gave warning that the day was near at hand.

These little airy edifices had all the fantastic lightness of the elf-world, and all the vaporous freshness of dawn.

" The other listened with a flicker of the eyelid, which showed his interest, but feigned lightness in his speech.

" Seneca calls that of Epicurus, magnificam vocem, an heroical speech, "A fool still begins to live," and accounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?

Then Juanita spoke with a sort of forced lightness.

The frivolous lightness of the courtier, the mad bravado of knight-errantry, which was not uncommon to the times, indeed, were not there.

Is this equivalent to saying that the deductions from the law of Delsarte tend to condemn in French literature its simple gaiety, its graceful lightness, and to efface this stamp of the race that our ancestors have surely imprinted?

But in spite of his long life of dissipation and adventure (he had campaigned with the Swiss Guards at thirteen, and, though he was much past forty, looked like a man of scarce thirty), there was still such an unrivalled grace in all he said and did, such an heroic lightness and gallantry in all he daredand he dared everythingthat he seemed to be eternally young and incomparably charming.

As you wend your way down the Avenue of Time you feel an inexpressive lightness, a sensation of being lifted out of yourself.

Nowdo you mind if I take Guy his nourishment?" She put the matter behind her with that inimitable lightness of hers which of late she had seemed to have lost.