prettiness

• “And when desirability as a friend or wife is also bound up in prettiness, it reinforces that message.”

  ProWomanProLife » Modesty, nudity, identity

• “But to be fair to Rubenking, the editor who authored the review, there's much more to his GUI complaints than degree of "prettiness" - and one of them even involved his discovery of the Avira-acknowledged "bug" during PC Mag's tests.”

  DSLreports - front page

• “This speech, Bob., thou wilt call a prettiness; but the allegory is just; and thou hast not quite cured me of the metaphorical.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “They descend into simple prettiness, which is simple insipidity.”

  Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays

• “Her prettiness was the kind that wins at once and keeps you ever after.”

  Letters of a Woman Homesteader

• “He recalled the prettiness of Barbee's new girl at the lunch counter; he remembered Sanchia's regular features; these two were simply not of the same order of beings as”

  The Desert Valley

• “Malluch was touched by a doubt; he recalled the prettiness of the favour shown him by the woman at the fountain, and wondered if he who had the sorrows of a mother in mind was about to forget them for a lure of love; yet he replied, "The Orchard of Palms lies beyond the village two hours by horse, and one by a swift camel.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “I followed him into the kitchen, where his little brown-skinned wife was preparing breakfast, and I fancied, after seeing her, that her prettiness was the cause of his inhospitable manner towards a stranger.”

  The Purple Land

• “She was a meagre, hollow-eyed, bloodless girl of seventeen, yet her features had a certain charm -- that dolorous kind of prettiness which is often enough seen in the London needle-slave.”

  The Nether World

• “Yet the little sitting-room had an aspect of simple rustic prettiness, which is almost pleasanter to look at than fine furniture.”

  Henry Dunbar A Novel

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