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-- There is perhaps no department in the family economy which ought to be so cautiously filled up as the _nursery maid_; and yet we generally find, that the duties of this office are frequently handed over to any thoughtless giddy girl, whose appearance is "shewy," although she be without education, without experience, and often without principle.

A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall

MATILDA withdrew to her boudoir, where she was pensively sitting, with one arm on the table, thinking most probably of the very young man the countess had just told her to forget, when she entered, accompanied by a shewy fashionable looking woman, whom she had never seen before.

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

He said he was travelling for his amusement; but he had no recommendation to anyone; though, by being constantly well-dressed, and keeping a shewy footman, he had contrived to make acquaintance almost universally in the neighbourhood.

Camilla 2008

His momentary sight of Lord Valhurst, at the bathing-room, did not bring him to his remembrance in his present more shewy apparel, and he was gratified to see only an old beau in her immediate suite.

Camilla 2008

Lady Alithea Selmore, and a very shewy train of ladies and gentlemen, came into the library.

Camilla 2008

For he was much pleased with the shewy part of that religion, and the fine pictures, and decorations in the churches of Italy; and having got into company with a Dominican at Padua, a Franciscan at Milan, and a Jesuit at

Pamela 2006

The interior of this edifice had nothing of the shewy ornament and general splendor, which distinguish the churches of Italy, and particularly those of Naples; but it exhibited a simplicity and grandeur of design, considerably more interesting to persons of taste, and a solemnity of light and shade much more suitable to promote the sublime elevation of devotion.

The Italian 2004

They seek for agreeable sentiments, rather than probable ones; they use more frequent digressions, intermingle tales and fables, employ more shewy metaphors, and work them into their discourses with as much fancy and variety as a painter does his colours; and they abound in contrasts and antitheses, and in similar and corresponding cadences.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

And the _coup d'oeil_ was shewy and brilliant 'tis true,

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

She gloried in milk-white horses to her carriage -- the coachman and footman in grand shewy liveries -- the carriage lined with a silk calculated to exhibit the complexion, &c. &c.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various