Will was very open and careless about his personal affairs, but it was among the more exquisite touches in nature's modelling of him that he had a delicate generosity which warned him into reticence here.
Lydgate did not stay to think that she was Quixotic: he gave himself up, for the first time in his life, to the exquisite sense of leaning entirely on a generous sympathy, without any check of proud reserve.
); and what could he do then but kiss the exquisite nape which was shown in all its delicate curves?
Will, we know, could not bear the thought of any flaw appearing in his crystal: he was at once exasperated and delighted by the calm freedom with which Dorothea looked at him and spoke to him, and there was something so exquisite in thinking of her just as she was, that he could not long for a change which must somehow change her.
What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?
" "Oh, my life is very simple," said Dorothea, her lips curling with an exquisite smile, which irradiated her melancholy.
Her sewing is exquisite; it is the nicest thing I know about Mary.
She had an exquisite tact and insight in relation to all points of manners; but the people she lived among were blunderers and busybodies.
She met Ladislaw with that exquisite smile of good-will which is unmixed with vanity, and held out her hand to him.
Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing.
Certainly, small feet and perfectly turned shoulders aid the impression of refined manners, and the right thing said seems quite astonishingly right when it is accompanied with exquisite curves of lip and eyelid.
Mary Garth seemed all the plainer standing at an angle between the two nymphs—the one in the glass, and the one out of it, who looked at each other with eyes of heavenly blue, deep enough to hold the most exquisite meanings an ingenious beholder could put into them, and deep enough to hide the meanings of the owner if these should happen to be less exquisite.
That is what a woman ought to be: she ought to produce the effect of exquisite music.
" "I expect you to be all that an exquisite young lady can be in every possible relation of life.
It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of remarkable beauty, the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts set in exquisite gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it.
What had happened could only be a dream, a frightful dream; and when he turned the key and opened the door, he would see her bending slightly over the table in the gracious attitude of the woman in Chardin's Benedicite, which always seemed to him so exquisite.
It was ages since she had had a moment's conversation with her dearest Catherine; and, though she had such thousands of things to say to her, it appeared as if they were never to be together again; so, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency, she bade her friend adieu and went on.
nothing in it, no white flower, was whiter, more exquisite.
"My husband," said Rose, holding him by the hand, her face exquisite.
This exquisite ignoring.
