His finest defence of his habitual solitude occurs in these letters also, and has some statements whose felicitousness can hardly be surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Except with this difference, that I fall far short of his felicitousness, as people who had known him in his prime often told me, when he was over severity and I was correspondingly along in years. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
In retort for Severance's stab, he dubbed the pair Mephistopheles and Falstaff, which was above his usual felicitousness of characterization. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
It emasculates the drama with its pervasive prettiness, its lazy felicitousness where it ought to be monstrous and terrifying, its reminiscences of Mendelssohn, Tchaikowsky and "Little Egypt.". From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
That pomp of language, that full and tuneful diction, that felicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words, which to prosaic writers seem artificial, is nothing else but the mere habit and way of a lofty intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
By no means the least of the pleasant features of this pleasant day was the fact that three couples blushingly presented themselves before the colonel, and confided to him their sudden conclusions in regard to the felicitousness of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Trail] Reference
If another sting could have been added it was the absurd conviction that Cressy would not appreciate his sacrifice, but was perhaps even at that moment calmly congratulating herself on the felicitousness of the complication in which she had left him. From Wordnik.com. [Cressy] Reference
She had black hair and blue eyes -- of the kind that turns violet in a novel -- and a beautiful white skin, lovely hands and feet, a perfect figure, and features chiselled and finished and polished and turned out with such singular felicitousness that one gazed and gazed till the heart was full of a strange jealous resentment at any one else having the right to gaze on something so rare, so divinely, so sacredly fair -- any one in the world but one's self!. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Ibbetson] Reference
He felicitously contemplated his felicitousness. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
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