Dreamy and reserved in disposition, she lacked the graciousness of Louise and Patsy's compelling good humor; yet you must not think her stupid or disagreeable.

The occasion gives me peculiar satisfaction, not only in the opportunity to thank my fellow Benchers of the Inn for their graciousness in granting the use of this noble Hall for this purpose, but also because the delivery of these addresses now enables me to be, for the moment, in fact as in honorary title a Bencher, or Reader, of this time-honoured society.

But God, whose graciousness to us we have so often experienc'd, put it into my good lady's heart, on her death-bed, just an hour before she expir'd, to recommend to my young master all her servants, one by one; and when it came to my turn to be recommended (for I was sobbing and crying at her pillow) she could only say, "My dear son!"

The whole court, and the people in general, extolled her affability, and the graciousness with which she said kind things to all who approached her.

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The day had arisen from the bosom of the night; peace and graciousness from the bosom of the storm; she herself from the grave of her sleep, over which had lain the turf of the darkness; and all was fresh life and new hope.

He lost none of his graciousness through seeing the young doctor's involuntary recoil.

Jack had made some sturdy but shy advances which had been well enough receivedin her heart Jennie thought him an excessively fine fellowbut being a male, and young, and lacking the sight which sees, he failed to take this graciousness at its full value.