"Nay, sure, madam," answered Sophia, "one can't suspect after what he hath done;--besides, if your ladyship observed him, there was an elegance in his discourse, a delicacy, a
prettiness of expression that, that "
She was a sprightly young woman, very smart and merry and decorously voluptuous, and of that fascinating
prettiness that wins the hearts of boys and storms the footlights.
"They're cold and flabby, like cabbages, in spite of their
prettiness."
The round downy chicks peeping out from under their mother's wing never touched Hetty with any pleasure; that was not the sort of
prettiness she cared about, but she did care about the
prettiness of the new things she would buy for herself at Treddleston Fair with the money they fetched.
"By my troth, a gay bird!" he said echoing the other's words--then added, "But not so bad a build for all his
prettiness. Look you, those calves and thighs are well rounded and straight.
There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the
prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
They were all dressed for dinner, and, indeed, the
prettiness of the dinner-table merited that compliment.
Pearl's aspect was imbued with a spell of infinite variety; in this one child there were many children, comprehending the full scope between the wild-flower
prettiness of a peasant-baby, and the pomp, in little, of an infant princess.
`And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type of
prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute.
They were too handsome themselves to dislike any woman for being so too, and were almost as much charmed as their brothers with her lively dark eye, clear brown complexion, and general
prettiness. Had she been tall, full formed, and fair, it might have been more of a trial: but as it was, there could be no comparison; and she was most allowably a sweet, pretty girl, while they were the finest young women in the country.
Like most of their generation they were obsessed by the fear of the picturesque, and they turned their backs on the obvious beauty of the town to seek subjects which were devoid of a
prettiness they despised.
"Truly, his clothes have overmuch
prettiness for my taste," quoth Arthur a Bland, "but, ne'ertheless, his shoulders are broad and his loins are narrow, and seest thou, good master, how that his arms hang from his body?