Haidee was reclining upon soft downy cushions, covered with blue satin spotted with silver; her head, supported by one of her
exquisitely moulded arms, rested on the divan immediately behind her, while the other was employed in adjusting to her lips the coral tube of a rich narghile, through whose flexible pipe she drew the smoke fragrant by its passage through perfumed water.
He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar, finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes appealed to his sympathy, and in his chosen words, quite
exquisitely, there appeared a rococo beauty.
Prince Andrew was one of the best dancers of his day and Natasha danced
exquisitely. Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.
A little girl, radiant and beautiful, shapely as a fairy and
exquisitely dressed, was dancing gracefully in the middle of the lonely road, whirling slowly this way and that, her dainty feet twinkling in sprightly fashion.
The ceilings were composed of great arches that rose far above her head, and all the walls and floors were of polished marble
exquisitely tinted in many colors.
That passion which had formerly been so
exquisitely delicious, became now a scorpion in her bosom.
But even in that display there was something
exquisitely delicate.
How nice that would be to him, but oh, how
exquisitely delicious it would be to her.
In no living thing are the lines of beauty more
exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes.
Never had his gold been so golden, his azure so dazzlingly clear and deep as on this particular May morning; while his fancy simply ran riot in the marginal decorations of woodland and spinney, quaint embroidered flowers and copses full of
exquisitely painted and wonderfully trained birds of song.
Her face was decidedly handsome, and her person
exquisitely proportioned.
I soon became quite an accomplished hand at making tappa--could braid a grass sling as well as the best of them--and once, with my knife, carved the handle of a javelin so
exquisitely, that I have no doubt, to this day, Karnoonoo, its owner, preserves it as a surprising specimen of my skill.