Beautifully

Examples

• The offered hand--rather large, but beautifully formed--was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Happily Rosamond did not think of committing any desperate act: she plaited her fair hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have got them still--the watch goes beautifully. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The latter place was a large, comfortable dwelling, beautifully situated among woods about a mile to the northeast of Chesterfield. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Casaubon had prepared all this as beautifully as possible. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One excellent quality of Mr. Pickwick's character was beautifully displayed at this moment, under the most trying circumstances. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Large glass doors at the lower end opened on to a terrace, beautifully ornamented along its whole length with a profusion of flowers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You are extremely kind, replied Miss Bates, highly gratified; you who are such a judge, and write so beautifully yourself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The moon is shining beautifully, and there is not a leaf stirring. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I can see no limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Your blood coagulates beautifully. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• To Gerty Farish's hopeful spirit a solution appeared to have been reached when she remembered how beautifully Lily could trim hats. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She could read and write, embroider and sew, beautifully; and was a beautiful singer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His arrow heads were of flint, beautifully made, and he lashed them tightly to their shafts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I'd forgotten there was no room to dash about in--how beautifully one does have to behave in a small flat! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In one picture a still more astonishing appearance was produced, by the change of the interior of a beautifully painted and decorated church into a mass of charred ruins. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Quite right, and beautifully written. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His bones were strong and round, his limbs were rounded, all his contours were beautifully and fully moulded. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Beautifully indeed! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I'm going beautifully. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• For the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need, that I was like a child in his hands. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mr. James Harthouse began to think it would be a new sensation, if the face which changed so beautifully for the whelp, would change for him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The tea-pot poured beautifully from a proud slender spout. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lorne looked, not sulky, nor cross, as Fred Lamb would have done; but smiled beautifully, and said: At three, then, may I go to you? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The moon was shining beautifully, at near one in the morning. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The double line a little above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• His mind was beautifully still and thoughtless, like a still pool, and his body full and warm and rich. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And again: Nothing can be more perfectly and beautifully adapted to its object than most of the moral compositions of Dr. Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Editor: Stu