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Mia Wasikowska is wise and has experience beyond her young age, but she often appears fragile, waifish and even dainty -- qualities that no doubt contributed to her casting as the classic ingenue, Alice.— AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
In person she is dainty, almost exaggeratedly ladylike, and much more playfully ambivalent than the public debate about her book.— Culture | guardian.co.uk
An attractive woman with dainty, ash-colored freckles, Thomas wears her hair short now, in tightly twisted tresses that she covers with colorful scarves.— Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
Remember that your unsexed state renders you over-dainty, and easily disgusted.— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Fortunately they were not over-dainty, and had few antipathies.— Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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