9 Metaphors for sweetness

She threw back her veil, and Fenwick's heart leapt as he recognised the spiritual beauty, the patient sweetness of a face which through twelve troubled years had kept him from evil and held him to goodhad been indeed 'the master light' of all his seeing.

The sweetness of it was perhaps a little cloying, but it was all quite nice and sympathetic.

Relative pronouns in the nominative or [the] objective case, are preceded by commas, when the clause which the relative connects [,] ends a sentence; as, 'Sweetness of temper is a quality, which reflects a lustre on every accomplishment'B. Greenleaf.'

Her troubles have changed her; only eighteen years old, she has the air of twenty-four; her once rounded face is thin, and her childlike sweetness has become tender gravity.

Her face was against a curved arm, and the sweetness of it in its tranquil repose was a bitter sweet to him.

The years have put iron into his soul and strength into his judgments, and the sweetness has become only the pleasing incasement of the strong medicine which our social and political life so often needs.

"Sweetness", he saysanticipating, as all these ancients so provokingly do, some of our most modern popular philosophers"sweetness, both in language and in manner, is a very powerful attraction in the formation of friendships".

Can I?" The trailing sweetness of the inquiry was scarcely a challenge, yet he dared take it up.

Something of the Elizabethan style still clings to them; but their grave sweetness, their choice wording, their originality in epithet, name, and phrase, were novelties of Milton's own.

9 Metaphors for  sweetness