Now he opened his heavy eyes, wrinkled his forehead, and the little hand that emerged frailly from the enormous cuff wrote a few words in the great volume. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
Motherless herself, she had soon discovered that the frailly beautiful, sad-faced woman who had come to live with her somewhat irascible godparent, filled a gap in her small life of which, hitherto, she had been only dimly conscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
But it was a nacreous white all over and frailly built, with a triangular face occupied mostly with shining dark eyes, hair like cobwebs and steam, long spidery hands on which the fingers and thumbs were all the same length, and long feet with toes that gripped like bird's talons. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
To point out one of those aspects, the new heads in the government, mainly holding the vital portfolios, seem to have clinched to the politics of appeasement, be it appeasing the internal political partners, alongside the power axes such as security bodies, to sustain the frailly attained bond, or appeasing the international partners. From Wordnik.com. [Impasse Stalls Nepal���s New Government] Reference
And, from the organ-pipe of frailly, fings His foul and body to their lading reft. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes] Reference
Gods, I was frailly human still to have a very vast curiosity as to what would be the form of my own reception at Atlantis. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Continent] Reference
She was frailly fair, like her mother, and could already throw her blue eyes about their balls, in the Esperanto of coquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
Of the other, who was set close to the red embers, and made up into a bundle like a mummy, I could but see that he was an alien, of a darker hue than any man of Europe, very frailly built, with a singular tall forehead, and a secret eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Enemy in the House] Reference
If one climbs up right above the place this conformation is plainly visible, for down below is the stretch of sandy beach, with its frailly constructed concert rooms and cafes sheltering under the gaunt red cliffs, while over the shoulder of the peninsula appears a glimpse of the piers and the masts of sailing ships. From Wordnik.com. [Normandy, Illustrated, Complete] Reference
Turner prize - for a sound piece consisting of her own frailly beautiful voice singing a Scottish lament over the black waters of the Clyde - was rendered almost inaudible tonight by the chants and whoops of student protesters, who were separated from the champagne-sipping partygoers at Tate Britain only by a hastily erected barrier. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Tolerance, gratitude, appreciation blossomed frailly; and over all there spread, like those hosts of four-petaled flowers we used to call bluets, which grew in such abundance among rarer violets or wild strawberry -- there spread through Ruth's awakened nature a thousand and one little kindly impulses that had to do with smiles for servants, kind words for old people, and courtesy to clerks in shops. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Wheel A Novel] Reference
A hand frailly waved a handkerchief; Clemens ran over the lawn toward it, calling tenderly. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907] Reference
A hand frailly waved a handkerchief; Clemens ran over the lawn toward it, calling tenderly.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
A hand frailly waved a handkerchief; Clemens ran over the lawn toward it, calling tenderly: "What?. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
So frailly fragile and so phantom fair. From Wordnik.com. [Maurine and Other Poems] Reference
VanGaalen frailly sings. From Wordnik.com. [Rock Sellout] Reference
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