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

The huddle, the flutter, the bustle, the escape, the alarm, and the mock alarm; the prettinesses heightened by consternation; the courtier's fear which was flattery, and the lady's which was affectation; all that we may conceive to have taken place in a mob of Brighton courtiers, sympathising with the well-acted surprise of their sovereign; all this, and no more, is exhibited by the well-dressed lords and ladies in the Hall of Belus.

Through Mrs. Goddard, the mistress of the local boarding-school for girls, she struck up an acquaintance, which she contrived rapidly to develop into intimacy, with a Miss Harriet Smitha plump, fair-haired, blue-eyed little beauty of seventeen, whose prettiness, docility, good-temper and simplicity might be allowed to balance her lack of intelligence and information.

There is afterwards too much trick and too many prettinesses; such is that of the nosegay which the princess finds, and concludes from its tasteful arrangement to be the work of princely fingers.

It is a party speech, with little points and prettinesses, affecting moderation, and full of rancour.

A great affecter of wits and such prettinesses; and his company is costly to him, for he seldom has it but invited.

There are too many prettinesses, but parts of the Poem are better than pretty, and I thank you for the perusal.

It nevertheless adds the charm of variety to the buildings that stud and encircle the park, and intermingle with lawns and bowery walks with more prettiness than rural character.

He abandoned Hellenistic conceits with their prettiness of sentiment, attained an easy modulation of line readily responding to a variety of emotions, learned the dignity of his own language as he acquired a deeper sympathy for the sufferings of his own people.

This Etruscan, whose few surviving pages reveal the fact that he never acquired an understanding of the dignity of Rome's language, that he was temperamentally un-Roman in his love for meretricious gaudiness and prettiness, might have worked incalculable harm on this school had his taste in the least affected it.

I must here take Notice under the Head of the Machines, that Uriel's gliding down to the Earth upon a Sunbeam, with the Poets Device to make him descend, as well in his return to the Sun, as in his coming from it, is a Prettiness that might have been admired in a little fanciful Poet, but seems below the Genius of Milton.

The triolett is worth quoting as a type of Loeben's prettiness: Galt es mir, das süsse Blicken Aus dem hellen Augenpaar? Unter'm Netz vom goldnen Haar Galt es mir das süsse Blicken?

If these prettinesses pass for patriotism, if a country can heave from its heart's core only these vapid, varnished sentiments, lip-deep, and let its tears of blood evaporate in an empty conceit, let it be governed as it has been.

But what else did she have beside 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.

People had become accustomed to allow her so many liberties in her prettinesses, that at last they came to allow them in what was unpretty.

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.

Hence he has been seduced, by the similarity of style, to add to the offences of his original, and introduce, though it needed not, points of wit and antithetical prettinesses, for which he cannot plead Ovid's authority.

Having fallen into the common scrape,having been pleased by her prettinesses and clevernesses and women's ways,I did as so many other men have done.

He wastes in his limitations, and his talent is vented in prettinesses of style.

He was captivated by her prettiness, liveliness and music, and then he was captured on his worldly side.

They indeed remember the Names of abundance of Places, with the particular Fineries of certain Churches: But their distinguishing Mark is certain Prettinesses of Foreign Languages, the Meaning of which they could have better express'd in their own.

"And you like parlors, and prettinesses, and feather dusters, and little general touchings-up, that I can't have patience with.

Even the Venetian painters, called by way of distinction the "Ornamental School," deemed it necessary to avoid prettinesses and pettinesses, and by consummate skill in artistical arrangement in composition, in chiaro-scuro and colour, to give a certain greatness to the representations of their national events.

" "Card-board prettinesses!" said Mrs. Duncombe; "you spoil him with them; but that you'll do any waymake him fit for nothing but a flunkey.