In each case the material put forward for consumption has a certain shapeliness, a self-awareness of its own patternings, and an underlying message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogs and Essays « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

He had never particularly noticed her shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

Of what avail, therefore, is my goodliness and shapeliness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Passionately felt, but without shapeliness or worthy outcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Stephen Bodio's Querencia: "The blazon of expressed shapeliness..".    From Wordnik.com.  ["The blazon of expressed shapeliness.."] Reference

One leg was slightly bent at the knee, a further hint of shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ungrateful Governess]

The current from the south pares the spit, preserving its shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

The major of these rightful attributes, it is implied, is shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talk about Ashbery] Reference

Hence an admirable clearness and shapeliness in the criticism of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

It has formal demands, demands of shapeliness in the way that fiction does.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 December 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

The corpulent dame now has dresses made to exhibit, not to conceal, her shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rightsize Me] Reference

Then followed the noun formositas (“shapeliness”), which meant the same as beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

More even than the shapeliness of her body, her eyes were impossible to look away from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deuces Wild] Reference

I was sure that three glistening peaks seventy miles north were the peerless shapeliness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

She gave her husky laugh, raised a shimmering leg and admired its shapeliness complacently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]

The first thing stories do is give shapeliness and form to what might look random and chaotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Wife « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

There was a shapeliness of the legs and a fineness of the mud-checkered coat that seemed familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

I hope there is no harm in saying that I had, even before this, noticed the shapeliness of her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

Anne took the darkness of her hair and eyes from him, though her willowed shapeliness was her mother's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rekindled]

They make wax houses of beautiful shapeliness, and they rear their little ones with great wisdom and care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends and Helpers] Reference

Orwell's, superficially the plainest of the plain, was of a rhythm and a shapeliness to seduce the angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference

Its shapeliness together with her beauty of face and figure were instantly swept up by his appraising glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference

The beauty of the eyes is quenched then, the comeliness of the face all altered, the shapeliness of the neck destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Nothing could exceed the loveliness of her skin, the whiteness of her even teeth, or the graceful shapeliness of her form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference

It must be ground down to smooth unbroken planes, harmonious curvings, shapeliness — harmonies of arc and line and angle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

The corpulent dame now has dresses made to exhibit, not to conceal, her shapeliness; these throng authentic fashion-sheets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stylish Stouts] Reference

He listened for a moment while his eyes appreciated the slender shapeliness of Devon's legs and the soft curves of her breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas! Lucky]

They may be remarkable or ingenious in their process, but unremarkable in their shapeliness -- in turn, such poems are difficult to remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference

Zeus, I mainly liken thee, for beauty and stature and shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

But she noticed far more keenly the strength and massive shapeliness of the hands themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play] Reference

But it seemed to these not too discerning eyes that she was otherwise of an attractive shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions] Reference

He was beardless, and the garb he wore was torn and travel-stained, but he had shapeliness and beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference

Albert admired the hands of the girl, which no amount of work could quite rob of their essential shapeliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference

He was so firm, and shapely, with such satisfying, inconceivable shapeliness, strange, yet unutterably clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

So true it is that the gods do not give every gracious gift to all, neither shapeliness, nor wisdom, nor skilled speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

Keeko, in her mannish clothes of buckskin, her beaded, fur-trimmed tunic which revealed the shapeliness of her youthful body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Unaga] Reference

But now the shapeliness had gone; the waist-line no longer existed, and there were no more crinolines to create it artificially.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

They may be remarkable or ingenious in their process, but unremarkable in their shapeliness-in turn, such poems are difficult to remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference