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  • And that other dream, to which she often led me, with the large hazel eyes, and clear delicate tints — so sweet, so riante, yet so sad; poor Lady Mary Brandon, dying there — so unhappily mated — a young mother, and her baby sleeping in long

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • How bring the blank that a "No" must cause upon her _riante_, lovely face?

    Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

  • L'ainee est belle comme un cherubin; c'est un visage rond, de grands yeux bleus, des levres fines, une bouche riante, la peau la plus blanche et la plus animee, des cheveux chatains qui ceignent un tres joli front.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • J'avais tout de suite aimé ce cordelier qui, blanchi dans l'étude, gardait l'humeur riante et facile d'un ignorant.

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Full of malicious interest as he is in all the outward events of nations and societies, it is always evident that what Anatole France really regards as worthy of tender consideration is the conversation of quaint minds and the "Humeur riante et facile" of wayward and fantastic souls.

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

  • L'ainee est belle comme un cherubin; c'est un visage rond, de grands yeux bleus, des levres fines, une bouche riante, la peau la plus blanche et la plus animee, des cheveux chatains qui ceignent un tres joli front.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • PRAIRIAL, neuvième mois de l'année républicaine; il tire son nom de la fécondité riante et de la récolte des prairies pendant ce mois.

    The French Revolution A Short History 1893

  • She turned and looked at him so seriously — so unlike her _riante_ self — that he felt startled, and did not know what to say for a minute.

    The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Anne Warner 1891

  • This _riante_ dryad of the birches could be nothing to him.

    The Opened Shutters Clara Louise Burnham 1890

  • She herself was exceptionally bright and cheerful; with her riante features and agile movements, she reminded me of some tropical bird of gorgeous plumage swaying to and fro on a branch of equally gorgeous blossom.

    Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Marie Corelli 1889

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