gracefullest

Then she began to walk, swaying from side to side with gracefullest gait, whilst Hubub who excelled in verse-making, recited in her honour these couplets,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Occasionally they had a slight skirmish, as when Fanny considered herself patted on the back by that lady, or as when Mrs Merdle looked particularly young and well; but Mrs Merdle always soon terminated those passages of arms by sinking among her cushions with the gracefullest indifference, and finding her attention otherwise engaged.

Little Dorrit 2007

I could say a great deal more on this occasion; but, upon my word, I am quite out of humour with it: for I liked my English Mr.B. better than my Spaniard: and the Nun I approved not by any means; though there were some who observed, that she was one of the gracefullest figures in the place.

Pamela 2006

Above all, the noting of the appearance of the first roses should not be omitted; nor of the Arethusa, one of the delicatest, gracefullest, and in every manner sweetest of the whole race of flowers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

At the dinner given to Thackeray in 1856, Jerrold, in proposing Brooks's health, pronounced him "the most rising journalist of the day," and Mark Lemon declared openly that "Shirley's pen is the gracefullest in London."

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

I found her oftenest stretched on the sofa (close at my right hand, I between her and the fire), her drawing-room and self all in the gracefullest and most perfect order, and waiting with such a welcome; ah, me! ah, me!

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

In spite of her height, she seemed to him the slightest, gracefullest thing, and as she neared him, she lifted her deep brown eyes, and it was as though he had never seen before how beautiful they were.

Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

'Beales and his 50,000 roughs,' contrasted with gentle words for our precious aristocracy, with 'the politest and gracefullest kind of woman' to wife.

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880

On sunny days, pretty little chameleons -- gracefullest of legged reptiles -- creep along the marble fronts of the vaults, and catch flies.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

On sunny days, pretty little chameleons -- gracefullest of legged reptiles -- creep along the marble fronts of the vaults, and catch flies.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872