She had a certain daintiness about her, too, in her way of dressingeven in the way she did her hairand in her walk, which made the women say with certain resentment, that Mrs. Paine would like to be "dressy.

The irony of fate could hardly go further; but it does go further a little later, when Madame Forestier, still young and beautiful, fails to recognize Madame Loisel because the latter had lost youth, beauty, daintiness, her very self, in toiling to pay to Madame Forestier a debt that was not a debt.

The girl spread it on the little center-table with a certain daintiness, seated herself, and held out her hand for Peter's pencil.

She had accomplished the whole supper in the white manner, with all poise and daintiness.

" He looked at her slim figure, so charming in its daintiness.

His eyes followed her, noting the grace of her movements, the whiteness of her skin, all her daintiness of dress and person.

Her appealing charm of face and figure was accentuated by her daintiness and a fleeting suggestion of naïveté in poise and expression when she was amused.

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.

The sixpenny dinners, as also the plain and "high" teas, were truly a marvel of excellence, daintiness, and economy, and the queue of the patient "waiters," sometimes 40 yards long, amply testified to their popularity.

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.

My gift was a pretty young Swiss matron in holiday attire, really more picturesque, and quite as costly as Georgia's, but lacking that daintiness which made the lady-doll untouchable.

"Bread and milk," he ordered of the trim maid, and he smiled to himself contentedly at the daintiness with which it was served.

Little deft touches here and there added character and daintiness to any garment that she wore.

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.

The prettiness and daintiness of the various contents were a revelation to me, and I tried to put them back as neatly as I had found them, but I didn't know much about the articles, and it was a terrible job trying to fold up some of the things.

"France will be ruined by luxury and daintiness," said Peter the Great, at his departure, more impressed with the danger run by the nation from a court which was elegant even to effeminacy than by the irregularity of the morals, to which elsewhere he was personally accustomed.

Mrs. Baker claims that in this method she gets "the strength of oils with the daintiness of water-colors, and that it is beautiful for women and children, and sufficiently strong for portraits of men.

Nothing could exceed the skill and daintiness with which the costume is painted, and the characterization of the head is more sympathetic than usual, offering a most winsome type of beautiful, good womanhood.

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

The pattern had a delicacy about it approaching to daintiness, an expression of taste and feeling which he seemed to have known, as when one sees a face that is familiar, but which one can not "place," as we say.

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He developed a greater daintiness in words than in anything else, but this summer formed an exception.

And through it all she kept a natural daintiness and refinement, was never clumsy, or loud, or untidy.

Something of the refinement of his poor mother's tastes must have been inherited by Peregrine, for a certain daintiness of taste and habit had probably added to his discomforts in the austere, not to say rude simplicity imposed upon the children of the family.

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