rusticities

But gradually the models of those elementary rusticities became stranger and stranger to the eye, the nearer I came to know them.

Nabokov's Art as Story ____Maggie 2008

But gradually the models of those elementary rusticities became stranger and stranger to the eye, the nearer I came to know them.

Archive 2008-03-01 ____Maggie 2008

The flame of Burns had already eaten all grossness out of the rudest rusticities, and in the space of twenty years at most the Auld Braid

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

To Gard it all now appeared seemly enough, like an opera peasant ballet whose frank rusticities were excused under the inspiration of the music.

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

The composition is exactly suited to the tone of easy, pleasant conversation; the writing has a serene flow, with ripples of wit and humour; sometimes occupied with East Anglian rusticities and local colouring, sometimes with pungent literary criticisms; it is never exuberant, but nowhere dull or commonplace; the language is concise, with a sedulous nicety of expression.

Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

Mountains, authority, and a good selection of books had been excellent educators; he was a very superior and intelligent person, and, without much polish, had laid aside his peasant rusticities, and developed some of the best qualities of a gentleman.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Annette had no weight; while even Mr. Hunt's determination that Olivia should show due regard to her mother, was looked on as one of his rusticities.

Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It was the more touching from occasional rusticities and artistic defects, which showed that she had received no culture from art.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

She has collected around her all manner of pretty rusticities; all the comfortable elegancies she could imagine.

The Cross of Berny Jules Sandeau 1847

But we will 'drive' to any places you recommend; do bidding of the omens, to a fair degree withal: in short I calculate on getting some real benefit by this plunge into the maritime rusticities under your friendly guidance, and the quiet of it will be of all things welcome to me.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846