Sweetness

Examples

• She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She looked languid, full of a suffering sweetness; she carried a scent-bottle in her hand. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There was beauty still in his pale, wasted features; there was earnestness and a sort of sweetness--for he was smiling--in his hollow eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Rebecca said with angelic sweetness, do hear what Major Dobbin has to say against me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She had all the natural grace of sweetness of temper and artlessness in herself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Our life, our sweetness and our hope. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He met her eyes with the latent sweetness of his. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He was made of sweetness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• No--I have touched you, heard you, felt the comfort of your presence--the sweetness of your consolation: I cannot give up these joys. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Miss Mann's goblin grimness scarcely went deeper than the angel sweetness of hundreds of beauties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A slight and variable colour tinged her cheeks, and her motions seemed attuned by some hidden harmony of surpassing sweetness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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