34 adjectives to describe prettinesses

But no one who has ever looked on these smoky reaches of the Tyne with a seeing eye, or steamed down the river on a day either of gloom or sunshine, can refuse to acknowledge that it has a certain grandeur, a stern beauty of its own, that can stir the heart and the imagination more deeply than any mere prettiness.

Once upon a time she must have possessed the delicate prettiness that characterized her eldest daughter Jeanie, but it had faded long since.

The mass can only appreciate simple and naïve emotions, puerile prettiness, above all conventionalities.

The odd, grotesque impression made by his poetry arises, in part, from his desire to use the artistic values of ugliness, as well as of obscurity; to avoid the shallow prettiness that comes from blinking the disagreeable truth: not to leave the saltness out of the sea.

The undulating downs and rounded coombs, covered with sweet-grassed turf, of our inland chalk country, have a peacefully domestic and mutton- suggesting prettiness, but can hardly be called either grand or beautiful.

Kathleen had fair curls, skin like a rose, and delicate features; not a blemish to mar her exquisite prettiness!

She could make something out of it: it shouldn't be mere flat prettiness.

And Cynthia, in her fragile appealing prettiness, was a delicious foil, a perfect complement to the picture.

He thought he wouldn't even wish to spoil, by the vulgarity of compromising, or by the shadow of a secret, the serenity of her face, the gay prettiness of that life.

From these every trace of the mystical and solemn conception of antiquity gradually disappeared; till, for the majestic ideal of womanhood, we have merely inane prettiness, or rustic, or even meretricious grace, the borrowed charms of some earthly model.

when a girl is poor she may have all the beauty in the worldnot that I had beauty, only a little prettiness.

A bright, quivering mobility like sunshine on water, gave it a charm which was not dependent on the more obvious prettinesses of a fine-grained, white skin, extremely clear brown eyes, and a mouth quick to laugh and quiver, with pure, sharply cut outline and deeply sunk corners.

How many people do, that have not a bit of outward prettiness themselves!

quoth Robin Hood, laughing, "saw ye e'er such a pretty, mincing fellow?" "Truly, his clothes have overmuch prettiness for my taste," quoth Arthur a Bland, "but, ne'ertheless, his shoulders are broad and his loins are narrow, and

Her face was of a type every one knows, and had a certain half-pathetic prettiness; the features were small, and the chin was degenerate but delicately modelled.

The girl had a pink and golden prettiness unusual among habitantes.

But the geniuses of the army have sufficient opportunities, by their free access to the levee and the toilet, their constant attendance on balls and assemblies, and that abundant leisure which they enjoy, beyond any other body of men, to acquaint themselves with every new word, and prevailing mode of expression, and to attain the utmost nicety, and most polished prettiness of language.

"How long and gaunt I am," I used to say to myself, "and what a pattern of prim prettiness she is!"

Then, amid a clump of oaks, appeared the big shed sheltering the wheel, and the other buildings garlanded with ivy, honeysuckle, and creepers, the whole forming a spot of romantic prettiness.

The spot was not attractive, as far as rural prettiness was concerned.

Romance is hardly evident for it is the scene itself with its rustic prettiness which is chiefly stressed.

There is only one way: send my daughter to the campsend Lou to The Corner and let one glimpse of her beauty turn the shabby prettiness of this woman to a shadow!

For never had the miner seemed so clumsily big and gaunt, never had his clothes seemed so unpressed and shapeless, while his soft gray hat, to which he still clung religiously, appeared hopelessly out of place in contrast with the slim prettiness of the girl.

"It has a superficial, glittering prettiness, without" I hesitated to find the word I wanted.

Her figure was not bad, and her features had the trivial prettiness so commonly seen in London girls of the lower orders,the kind of prettiness which ultimately loses itself in fat and chronic perspiration.

34 adjectives to describe  prettinesses