This second structure, though less extensive and less solid than the first, was more attractive to the eye, as it abounded with scientifical and diversified decorations.

In country schools of the older type the accommodation is not so good, but the newer ones are often very attractive in appearance, and have both space and light.

Fairy- and folk-tales give wholesome food to the desire for adventure, whereas in what we may call realistic stories, adventure is chiefly confined to the naughty child, who is therefore more attractive than the good and stodgy.

Slender and graceful of form, attractive of feature and dainty in manner, Louise must be credited with many advantages; but against these might be weighed her evident insinceritythe volubility and gush that are so often affected to hide one's real nature, and which so shrewd and suspicious a woman as Aunt Jane could not fail to readily detect.

Here, however, is one reason why The Cathedral can never be so attractive as En Route, ministering as it does but little to that deepest and most insatiable curiosity concerning the soul and its sorrows.

Your whole life seems to be centered in the lives of others, and there is nothing attractive about them, if there were I could understand.

He had once said to her that, of all places, he thought Paris the least attractive for a romance, because it was all so obvious, so prepared, so professional.

The toilettes were as simple as the marriage ceremony will permit; for it was intended that there should be no unnecessary parade; and, perhaps, the delicate beauty of each of the brides was rendered the more attractive by this simplicity, as it has often been justly remarked, that the fair of this country are more winning in dress of a less conventional character, than when in the elaborate and regulated attire of ceremonies.

She knew more than one old face that was growing more attractive with each year of life.

Fortunately these social troubles were not universal, and it was just at the period when France was struggling and had become exhausted and impoverished that the Portuguese extended their discoveries on the same coast of Africa, and soon after succeeded in rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and opening a new maritime road to India, a country which was always attractive from the commercial advantages which it offered.

She seemed capable of being young and attractive at a ball, without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her.

She says it is much more attractive like that, but it does look odd before the front thing is on, and that is a fuzzy bit in a net, like what Royalties have.

So Dick plunged into the thick of it, and did his duty manfully, diving at partners right and left, yet, with a certain characteristic loyalty, selecting the least attractive amongst the ladies for his attentions.

" "She'd be a difficult woman to forget, if she's as attractive off the stage as she is on.

The view was not attractive on the score of beauty.

The most attractive among the buildings is the Greek church, as it stands quite alone on a hill, and is built in the style of a Grecian temple.

The houses of the village are not very new, nor very old, but the one long street is most attractive throughout its length, and the whole atmosphere of the place, from September to December, is odorous with the perfume of red and purple grapes.

No man can look attractive after having been hanged, and the indentation of the hangman's rope on every one of their necks, with the mark of the knot under the ear, gave such an impression of all that can be conceived of devilish horror as would baffle the conceptions of the most morbid genius.

There should always be a window in it, with at least a glimpse of something attractive beyond.

A pretty creeping hardy perennial suitable for rock-work, on which its bright yellow flowers are very attractive during June and July.

If he had dreamed the girl attractive before in the plainness of street costume, he now beheld her in a new vision of loveliness.