18217 examples of pretty in sentences

Without waiting longer at Kuruman than was necessary to recruit the oxen, which were pretty well tired by the long journey from Algoa Bay, I proceeded, in company with another missionary, to the Bechuana or Bakwain country, and found Sechele, with his tribe, located at Shokuane.

A circle of men was formed round it, and they gradually closed up, ascending pretty near to each other.

The blanket which I used as a saddle, being pretty constantly wet, caused extensive abrasion of the skin, which was continually healing and getting sore again.

By the end of the year 1851 the probable area of future discoveries was pretty well recognized.

Pretty soon it was spring, and sunny and pleasant and lovely, and the sweet mother and the children patted me and the puppy good-bye, and went away on a journey and a visit to their kin, and the master wasn't any company for us, but we played together and had good times, and the servants were kind and friendly, so we got along quite happily and counted the days and waited for the family.

Enjoyment was pretty general, and so much the more prevailed in being unhampered by conventional restrictions.

"A pretty kettle of fish altogether!" said the magistrate.

Had it ever yet befallen any young woman in the world to wish with secret intensity that she might have been, for her convenience, a shade less inordinately pretty?

The only thing was that her mother was, thank goodness, still so much prettier, still so assertively, so publicly, so trashily, so ruinously pretty.

When you were as pretty as that you could, by the whole idiotic consensus, be nothing but pretty; and when you were nothing "but" pretty you could get into nothing but tight places, out of which you could then scramble by nothing but masses of fibs.

When you were as pretty as that you could, by the whole idiotic consensus, be nothing but pretty; and when you were nothing "but" pretty you could get into nothing but tight places, out of which you could then scramble by nothing but masses of fibs.

When you were as pretty as that you could, by the whole idiotic consensus, be nothing but pretty; and when you were nothing "but" pretty you could get into nothing but tight places, out of which you could then scramble by nothing but masses of fibs.

"Yes, I want something of you, Julia, and I want it right now: you can do me a turn, and I'm blest if my luckwhich has once or twice been pretty good, you knowhasn't sent you to me."

As to the time required to smoke a flitch, it depends a good deal upon whether there be a constant fire beneath; and whether the fire be large or small: a month will do, if the fire be pretty constant and rich, as a farmhouse fire usually is; but over-smoking, or rather too long hanging in the air, makes the bacon rust; great attention should therefore be paid to this matter.

Procure a pretty mould; lay veal, ham, eggs, and parsley in layers, with a little pepper between each, and when the mould is full, get some strong stock, and fill up the shape.

Monosexuality is a distinction of the human species: the sexes are pretty clearly differentiated.

During childhood they are in abeyance or at least pretty sharply suppressed.

This sex index is not an absolute constant, although its range of fluctuation is pretty well fixed at birth.

She had a taste of her own, and Lord Herriefield was by no means in conformity with it; consequently, she expended none of those pretty little arts upon him which she occasionally practised, and which his experience would immediately have detected.

"I trust the important object I have had in view here is a sufficient excuse for my breach of promise to you; and I am serious when I wish you (unless the pretty Spaniard has, as I sometimes suspect, made you a captive) to see, and endeavor to bring me in some degree connected with, the charming family of Sir Edward Moseley.

"Nobility is certainly a very pretty thing (for those who have it), but I would defy the old Margravine of to keep up the semblance of superiority with Emily Moseley.

Anyway, when Tweaty poked Nibbles in the ribs, it was a pretty hard poke.

In fact, pretty soon everyone was singing along

Uncertain or indefinite knowledge is no knowledge at all; it may be very pretty, or amusing, or ingenious, but no more valuable for philosophical research than poetry or dreams or speculations.

The centre is pretty high, has a narrow, open roof, and is moderately crowded with timber.

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