"One that cannot be
lightly denied," said the Tatterdemalion.
Faster, faster, and faster;
lightly, more
lightly, and yet more
lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha.
She merely brushed his cheek with her lips and put a hand
lightly and joyously on either shoulder.
That famous ring that pricked its owner when he forgot duty and followed desire--I wonder if it pricked very hard when he set out on the chase, or whether it pricked but
lightly then, and only pierced to the quick when the chase had long been ended, and hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became regret?
Trent was taken to see his room, the boy talking all the time, and later on dinner was served and the boy did the honours, chaffing and talking
lightly. But later on when they sat outside, smoking furiously to keep off the mosquitoes and watching the fireflies dart in and out amongst the trees, the boy was silent.
Indeed, she trod the earth
lightly, and in her constitution there was little of the robust clay.
Sabin's side, her hand
lightly resting upon his, her dark eyes full of inscrutable tenderness, maddened him.
"You wouldn't give me another if I sat here all night imploring you." He sat close to her on a low tabouret, and as he spoke his fingers
lightly touched the hair that fell a little over her forehead.
The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still
lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried.
laughed Lady Muriel, as she sat down to the piano, and
lightly struck a few random chords.
The traitor in faction,
lightly goeth away with it; for when matters have stuck long in balancing, the winning of some one man casteth them, and he getteth all the thanks.
Why does the young man's fancy, when it
lightly turns to thoughts of love, turn this way and not that?