His daughter was to him a precious toy, on which he tried jokes, played tricks, and lavished gifts, for the joy of seeing the prettiness of her reactions to his treatment.

The odd, grotesque impression made by his poetry arises, in part, from his desire to use the artistic values of ugliness, as well as of obscurity; to avoid the shallow prettiness that comes from blinking the disagreeable truth: not to leave the saltness out of the sea.

On the Dantesque ruggedness of Michael Angelo he engrafted the prettiness of the seventeenth Petrarchisti; and where he thought the morality of the poems was questionable, especially in the case of those addressed to Cavalieri, he did not hesitate to introduce such alterations as destroyed their obvious intention.

She was a native of France, but thoroughly mistress of the English language, and, except for a foreign accent, which gave a certain prettiness to all she said, she spoke it as perfectly as any native Englishwoman.

Leslie Goldthwaite, in the hamadryad costume, just awarewhich it was impossible for her to helpof its exceeding prettiness, and of glances that recognized it, pleased with a mixture of pleasures, was on the surface of things once more, taking the delight of the moment with a young girl's innocent abandonment.

"Youyou"he seemed to swallow an epithet"you'll let that girl go into your filthy saloon and make money for you by herby her prettiness and herher ignorance" "Say, Dickie," his father had drawled, "you goin' to run for the legislature?

Kathleen had fair curls, skin like a rose, and delicate features; not a blemish to mar her exquisite prettiness!

She was "nice" in all her pretty clothes, and she herself was pretty with that type of prettiness which outwears most other typesthe prettiness that lies in a rounded figure, a dusky skin, plump, rosy cheeks, white teeth and black eyes.

His tone unconsciously patronized Cissie's prettiness with the patronage of the male for the less significant thing, as though her ripeness for love and passion and children were, after all, not comparable with what he, a male, could do in the way of significantly molding life.

Once upon a time she must have possessed the delicate prettiness that characterized her eldest daughter Jeanie, but it had faded long since.

"Oh, and I'm a perfect fright!" cried Billie, her hands flying to her hairhair, by the way, which was arranged in the very best manner to set off Billie's sparkling prettiness.

There is only one way: send my daughter to the campsend Lou to The Corner and let one glimpse of her beauty turn the shabby prettiness of this woman to a shadow!

The head that wears a crown dreams of the conquests of the sex, rather than of the conquests of states; the hand that wields the sceptre is fitted to display its prettiness, with the pencil, or the needle; and though words and ideas may be taught and sounded forth with the pomp of royalty; the tone is still that of woman.