Her visitor, settled on a small sofa that, with a palm-tree, a screen, a stool, a stand, a bowl of flowers and three photographs in silver frames, had been arranged near the light wood-fire as a choice "corner"--Maud Blessingbourne, her guest, turned audibly, though at intervals neither brief nor regular, the leaves of a book covered in lemon-coloured paper and not yet despoiled of a certain fresh
crispness. This effect of the volume, for the eye, would have made it, as presumably the newest French novel--and evidently, from the attitude of the reader, "good"--consort happily with the special tone of the room, a consistent air of selection and suppression, one of the finer aesthetic evolutions.
The benches were not filled; for park loungers, with their stagnant blood, are prompt to detect and fly home from the
crispness of early autumn.
"Very well." Marilla's
crispness gave no sign of her relief.
The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack
crispness.
When the weather was wet, he put up his umbrella over his stock in trade, not over himself; when the weather was dry, he furled that faded article, tied it round with a piece of yarn, and laid it cross-wise under the trestles: where it looked like an unwholesomely-forced lettuce that had lost in colour and
crispness what it had gained in size.
The BSO are a young, alert bunch, principal conductor Lior Shambadal drawing markedly brisk playing from them and relying upon
crispness and textural clarity to convey the essence of the works under consideration.
The featured lies were given appropriate
crispness by lead couple Erin Halloran and Terence Marling.
FRESH HERBS AND greens burst into brilliant color and brittle
crispness in the company of hot oil.
This version, however, retains lovely lime-centred
crispness and merges it agreeably with pithy grapefruit depth and hints of tropical fruit.
An Age of Confidence draws together 43 photographs from the Bedford Lemere & Co architectural photography company, the
crispness of the shots belying the fact many are more than a century old.
The rub, which is excellent on chicken and all meat, gives a fragrant,
crispness to the finished roast, and also with game.
"It was a real lesson for us in terms of the
crispness of their passing and pace of the way they played the game.