But when she noticed his white hair and bent form, she answered peaceably, "First, when I saw this, I thought I had never seen a prettier garden; but now I see that it can't be compared with one I know of.

When Dora came downstairs arrayed in her proper costume, Ralph thought her a great deal prettier than when she wore the pink chintz.

" "Is there a man on the crew who pulls a prettier stroke than I?

"Even now I seem to hear those rosy lips utter their first sweet lisp,'Dear brother.'" "No wonder that you loved her, if she was even prettier than this!"

but this is a great deal prettier and larger than that.

"We haven't a prettier in all our treasury.

A prettier bit of coursing I never did see!" "Ah! that was the country fellow that turned up when we sounded the mort by Col-Dene.

In Macbeth we find allusion to the "falcon towering in her pride of place"; and indeed there is no prettier sport on a still day than a flight at the partridge or the heron with the noble peregrine falcon or her mate the tiercel-gentle.

Then what could look prettier against the white carved stone than the russet and gold leaves of the Virginia creeper?

She was much prettier than the picture.

It isn't that she's any prettier.

"But, now you speak of it, maybe it would be prettier if it were a little" he paused for a word"quieter," he decided on.

He thought she looked prettier at the moment than she had looked at any time since he had made her acquaintance.

In a word, I don't believe that wide Scotland could boast of a prettier girlto say nothing of merry England and the Isle of Saints.

The infantry captain, a transient steamboat acquaintance, used often afterward to say that he never saw anything prettier than those four wildly gladdened ladies unveiling in the shade of their parasols.

Italian pine is a prettier name than stone-pine, and this is the name by which it is known to artists, who put it into almost every picture of Italian scenery.

Come and make the prettier replies that are already on the tip of your tongue; for oh, Tommy, you know they are!

Sorry that you insist on having these things in Englishthey are so very much prettier in French.

No dress could be more coquettish or prettier.

[Illustration] I am coming, I am coming, With my carpet soft and green; I have spread it o'er the common, And a prettier ne'er was seen.

And only once did she regret her surrender; and that was when it flashed across her one day that twenty would have been a prettier number: but she stifled that pain as years went on, and grew happy.

On their part, they would sit in deep attention, shielding their faces from the fire, and responding to enunciations directly contrary to their convictions with an occasional "yes-seh," or "ceddenly," or "of coze," or,prettier affirmation still,a solemn drooping of the eyelids, a slight compression of the lips, and a low, slow declination of the head.

There is a story about its first introduction into England which is worth reprinting here: 'Old Mr. Lee, a nurseryman and gardener, near London, well known fifty or sixty years ago, was one day showing his variegated treasures to a friend, who suddenly turned to him, and declared, 'Well, you have not in your collection a prettier flower than I saw this morning at Wapping!''No!

I shall be so different that you will not know me for the same person, and ifif" (beginning to falter and stumble)"if you still go on liking her best, and thinking her prettier and pleasanter to talk towell, you cannot help it, it will not be your faultand IIwill try not to mind!"

Little time was cut to waste in the preliminaries, and it was generally acknowledged at the end of the day that no prettier set-to had been witnessed for a long time than that which took place at the North-West London Police Court.