We are familiar with the heroine of romance whose foot is so exquisitely shaped that the coarsest shoe cannot conceal its perfections, and one always cherishes a doubt of the statement; yet it is true that Rebecca's peculiar and individual charm seemed wholly independent of accessories.
The tea, made specially magnificent in honour of the betrothal, was such a meal as could only have been compassed in Staffordshire or Yorkshire—a high tea of the last richness and excellence, exquisitely gracious to the palate, but ruthless in its demands on the stomach.
As I folded back her plentiful yet fine hair, so shining and soft, and so exquisitely tended, I had under my observation a young, pale, weary, but high-bred face.
A row of birches fringed the brook, and each birch seemed more exquisitely graceful and golden than her sisters.
What with her splendid fleece of golden curls, her great, brilliant blue eyes, her exquisitely tinted face, her dimpled hands and arms, every member of the audience must have felt it was worth the ten cents he had paid merely to see her.
She was exquisitely neat and simple, yet always looked well-dressed and pretty; for her love of beauty taught her what all girls should learn as soon as they begin to care for appearances—that neatness and simplicity are their best ornaments, that good habits are better than fine clothes, and the most elegant manners are the kindest.
Friends and fatigue have equally been forgotten, and the evening has seemed so exquisitely long (or perhaps too short)!
The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming It was Easter week, and Mrs Tulliver's cheesecakes were more exquisitely light than usual.
However, it had seemed a question of no moment to him on that fine morning when he went to give a final order for plate: in the presence of other jewels enormously expensive, and as an addition to orders of which the amount had not been exactly calculated, thirty pounds for ornaments so exquisitely suited to Rosamond's neck and arms could hardly appear excessive when there was no ready cash for it to exceed.
" "I am not particularly knowing, but there can be no great mistake about these little Homeric bits: they are exquisitely neat.
Wilkins that it must be difficult to scold a Dester who looked like that and so exquisitely said nothing.
Across the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light; and underneath her window, at the bottom of the flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets and rose-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword.
The product is exquisitely designed with decorative Chinese symbolism and is packaged in a red folder with embossed, gold foil, according to BEP Marketing Director Kevin Brown.
'A QUIET PASSION' (Terence Davies) In this exquisitely directed biography of Emily Dickinson (a sensational Cynthia Nixon), Mr.
With the application of new technology to kite making, China has an ever-growing variety of these exquisitely shaped and patterned creations.
He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey.
This rare and exquisitely produced musket is the first Chinese firearm with an imperial reign mark to be offered at auction.
The paper confirms that the ocean is exquisitely sensitive to small variations in the earth's temperature — a portentous finding, given that human emissions are inducing a large temperature rise.
For example,beans,a tommon vegetable,are exquisitely prepared into such delicious dishes as bean sprouts and bean curd.
Of course, he was exquisitely sensitive to what he felt, but others were of no mind.
