Graceful

Examples

• With graceful modesty each gentleman retired a step from the presented weapon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was a queenly presence--tall, graceful, and intensely womanly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• His attitude was graceful in the extreme. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• To be morally graceful, not less than physically, is a part of the character of Rigaud Blandois. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Then he went forward, with quick, graceful, intentional courtesy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His features were very regular and, like the proportions of his graceful limbs and body, beautiful in the extreme. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In fancy we shall see Milan again, and her stately Cathedral with its marble wilderness of graceful spires. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I can ill record the flow of language and graceful turns of expression, the wit and easy raillery that gave vigour and influence to his speech. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Her hair was of a rich, dark auburn, her complexion fair, and her figure slight and graceful. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A niece of Lord Carysfort, added I, daughter to a maid of honour, the Honourable Mrs. Storer, and the most graceful creature breathing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• What a form she had, what a face she had, what a graceful, variable, enchanting manner! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The third and last pilgrim moved by, before long, and he said: Ah, what a tall, graceful girl! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was quite surprised and delighted at his own graceful familiar manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She did not see him; and he followed her for several yards, admiring her light and easy walk, and her tall and graceful figure. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His movements were graceful, yet curiously abject, slinking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He means to tell us, that a horrid female waterman is graceful! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You have given Miss Smith all that she required, said he; you have made her graceful and easy. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Yes, certainly I hear you, said Rosamond, turning her head aside with the movement of a graceful long-necked bird. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A pilgrim--the Enthusiast--said: See that tall, graceful girl! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A graceful, elegantly-formed young man stood by her, carelessly leaning one elbow on a bale of cotton while a large pocket-book lay open before him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• What clearly-cut, spirited features--thin and serious, but graceful! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In such a dress as you are wearing now, you first charmed me, and in no dress could you ever look, to my thinking, more graceful or more beautiful. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Few palaces exist in any city that are so exquisite in design, so rich in art, so costly in material, so graceful, so beautiful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Such a fine woman as her, so handsome and so graceful and so elegant, is like a fresh lemon on a dinner-table, ornamental wherever she goes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On the white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half-pleasing shame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He appeared charmed to obey her commands and sport his really graceful waltzing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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