Marionettentheater, whose gracefulness is "not an end in itself, but a device to impress the teacher". From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the Asiatics. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen] Reference
"gracefulness" in landscape, I should send him neither to Italy nor to. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
Prophet, renowned for his beauty and gracefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
"And all the gracefulness of a duchess," added the youth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
It gives ease to solitude, and gracefulness to retirement. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
There is no denying that the gracefulness of the Scissor-tailed. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
The sound-hole, which is a masterpiece of gracefulness, reclines more. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Inherent in this practical design is a gracefulness of line seldom surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
The table was set by Phillis, who went and came, walking about with a gracefulness that Saniel admired. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The third line would involve a minute description of dress, complexion, stature, and wild gracefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Thy beauty and gracefulness are of the very first order and the comeliness of thy features is unparalleled. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
She may have been a Bretonne, but not a true Bretonne; her gracefulness and intelligence almost forbade it. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference
Other observers say that the smallness of her stature was quite forgotten in the gracefulness of her demeanour. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Not that she ceased to dazzle with the radiant splendour of her jewels, which adorned her natural gracefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference
I am acquainted with no tree in the forest that equals it, when disrobed of its foliage, in the gracefulness of its spray. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Possessed of a fine genius, a brilliant fancy, and much gracefulness of expression, Weir has decided claims to remembrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Though not entitled to a high rank, his poetry is pervaded by gracefulness, and some of his lyrics evince considerable power. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Flynn imbues all her work, figurative and abstract, like the hypnotic "Blue Summer," with a gracefulness and painterly sensitivity. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Review: 320 Studios] Reference
All yaks, male and female, have horns, and the Texas steer has no horns to compare with the yaks in size and gracefulness of curve. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
Sometimes, though very seldom, I detected a certain gracefulness among the younger women that was altogether new to my observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
With the beauty of her father, she possessed the winning gracefulness of her mother, with the best mental and moral qualities of both. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
This evenness in waltzing is very graceful, and can only be reached by long practice, a good ear for music, and a natural gracefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Close to her, long-necked shags on wide-spread wings balanced with dusky gracefulness before sailing away through the myriad screaming gulls. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The beautiful scenery along the lakes consists in the gracefulness of the mountain outlines and the rich and varied colorings of the wooded shores. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
"Whenever I talk with these civil servants, I get ticked off by their artificial, British gracefulness," says Chu, who grew up in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong's Canary] Reference
Kenny Meadows, we are told, used to rally him on his excessive sense of gracefulness, which stood in the way of anything like truthful representation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
His manly form, his intellectual countenance and musical voice, set off by a rare gracefulness of gesture, won, in advance, the favor of his auditory. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
How girlish in the gracefulness of her lofty form! how pliable in her majesty! what composure at my petulance and reproaches! what pity in her reproofs!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
An agile troupe of yelling beggars, guides, and coachmen surrounded them with an importunity wherein was mingled the gracefulness which Italians never lose. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Even her gracefulness ran now and then into a downrightness of movement which suggested the assertion of a primitive sincerity in a personal world of many effects. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
In all the feats and dexterities of the swimmer's art, Eiulo far outdid the rest of us, moving through the water with the ease, rapidity, and gracefulness of a fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
He responded that he "did not believe that there was a Mrs. Caudle in the whole world," and the gracefulness of his reference set him at peace with womankind once more. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Whether in doing simple physical things or in how people are keeping themselves, in everything, not everybody is living at the same level of understanding and gracefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Sadhguru: Living Well, Dying Well] Reference
It is true that none of them possess any claims to gracefulness of habit or elegance of foliage, such as are usual in popular plants, and, when not in flower, very few of the. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
It is not possible to convey to the reader, by means of mere description, anything approaching an adequate notion of the surpassing gracefulness of the entire work of this epoch. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
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