Exquisitely

Examples

• On scrutiny they proved to be French compositions, written in a hand peculiar but compact, and exquisitely clean and clear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half the charity bazaars in the county. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She was, she felt she was, in the greatest danger of being exquisitely happy, while so many were miserable. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I felt exquisitely mean when I said cheerfully: This one does very well; it fits elegantly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If their house was shabby, it was exquisitely kept; if there were good books on the shelves there were also good dishes on the table. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the wretched state of my nerves, movement of any kind is exquisitely painful to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The knife and fork, so contemptuously flung aside a month before, Tarzan now manipulated as exquisitely as did the polished D'Arnot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• With his new knowledge he had soon fashioned pottery, decorated with rustic scenes, and exquisitely enameled, that all lovers of works of art desired at any price. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The attitude was exquisitely easy; there had been no pain--no struggle. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She was dressed in mourning; and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I am not particularly knowing, but there can be no great mistake about these little Homeric bits: they are exquisitely neat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I might have been so exquisitely happy as to have been pressed to his heart again! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A pretty little house stood at the top of the lane, with a garden before it, exquisitely neat and brilliantly blooming. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• How exquisitely fashioned! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I knew he gathered the conversationI felt that the mode in which it was sustained suited him exquisitely--pleased him almost to pain. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Whoever has been granted such a moment of insight knows how exquisitely painful it is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is all over now; but when I look back, the idea of these venerable fossils skipping forth on a six months' picnic, seems exquisitely refreshing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to fair beauties. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Typed by Catherine