prettiest

• “Now, that's what I call the prettiest view we've seen of that gunboat yet, Mr Burnett, sir," said the carpenter a short time later, as the lad strolled up to where he was leaning over the bulwarks shading his eyes from the sun.”

  Fitz the Filibuster

• “That's what I calls the prettiest shot I ever see," said one of the men.”

  Middy and Ensign

• “Show him pictures of pretty girls, and the girl he calls prettiest will have dilated pupils.”

  A Gift From Earth

• “Did I not ruin a pair of silk-velvet slippers, lame my ankles for a week, and draw a "browner horror" over my already sunburnt face, in a wearisome walk, miles away, to the head of the ditch, as they call the prettiest little rivulet”

  The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

• “By the time she was seventeen, Lillie Malcolm became known as the prettiest and most accomplished young lady in the neighborhood, and no church or Sunday-school gathering was complete without a song or recitation by her.”

  The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician

• “For me the hardest letter to identify was the "e" and the prettiest was the "w".”

  Can you read it?

• “Oscar Levant was an unlikely beau for the girl who was currently being described as the prettiest in Hollywood.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chaplin’s Girl

• “Come on!" called the prettiest of the three, through her hollowed hands.”

  Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905

• “Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so lovely there was no end to her loveliness.”

  East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon

• “To be sure," she added, "master has kept the three prettiest, that is some consolation, and the others have all gone to good homes, where I doubt not their virtue will be duly appreciated, though I shall never, never see them more.”

  Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young

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