How To Use Prettily In A Sentence
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Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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I've noticed a few women friends starting to dress very prettily and femininely, wearing more skirts and makeup in prettier (less drab) colors.
18th and 19th Century Country Women
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What would you have thought of the poor little squilla, so prettily baptised by the fishermen, if
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
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Elizabeth curtseyed very prettily, though her eyes were slightly mocking.
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A stream of prettily lilted inanities poured steadily, unquenchably into my ear.
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Unprettily dubbed FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), it's not recognised as a state by neighbouring Greece because of the name issue - mention the word Macedonia to a Greek and they will instantly froth at the mouth.
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Marie carves radishes into flowers and arranges them prettily on a plate with salt and olives.
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In all, 16 rooms have been re-created at Claverton Manor—none more charming than the one dedicated to Shaker furniture, where pride of place is taken by a candleholder with prettily bowed legs, elegant in its simplicity.
Telling Our Story Across the Pond
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I wanted a chocolate cake that would rise high enough to fill the cubic dessert containers prettily, and I wanted to glaze the servings with a dark chocolate ganache, to make them black and shiny.
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The way they look - first prettily adorned, then by the end tattered - evokes the resplendence of Cio-Cio-San the bride, then the degradation that engulfs her as she nears her inevitable, ruinous end.
Screens evoke 'Butterfly' magic
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That the Chilian skipper is not of this class is proved by the appearance of his "cuddy," which is neatly, if not luxuriously, furnished, and prettily decorated.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
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Although prettily presented, they reminded her of a slimmer's vegetable portion: all good looks and no flavour.
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
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Well-known film actresses often posed prettily in elegant cheongsams against the backdrop of idealized gardens or home settings.
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The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The gomeral is much obliged," said I. "And was not this prettily done!" he went on.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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Looking at these samples with his microscope, Leeuwenhoek reported how in his own mouth: ‘I then most always saw, with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving.’
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Woodhall Woods are a little farther N. _Woodhill_ (about 3½ miles S.E. from Hatfield) is prettily situated, with _Brookmans_, _Hatfield_ and _Bedwell_ Parks all within a short walk.
Hertfordshire
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The flowers kept blowing, unaware their namesake had gone, unaware that this was not a day for flowers to grow so prettily bright in the ground.
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Our starters, crayfish and salmon tian and herb-rolled goat's cheese, were tasty and prettily presented.
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The young girl and Haviland, however, conveyed their charge carefully and safely to the farm-house, had him laid upon her own prettily-belaced bed, and Haviland insisted -- was it not a sacrifice in him on that critical evening of his election!
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making
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Jamie Lloyd's first-rate production intersplices the martial and the romantic to disturbing effect from the beginning: light filters prettily through Christopher Oram's lovely louvred-door design on to the couple tussling amorously in bed.
Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
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Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.
Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
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She handed them a bundle of letters, all prettily made up in fancy paper, sealed with a flourished hardened wax stamp.
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The gown was made of the smoothest painted red silk with a red lace trim on the hem and the neckline, which swooped down low in a prettily way.
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She bought me a box of prettily coloured soaps.
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A lover may call his ladylove his girl, and do so very prettily.
The Eustace Diamonds
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To these, a small portion of each having been taken, are added various condiments – pickles, sliced cucumber, chili, chutnee – which are offered prettily arranged on a large china tray.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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There are three bedrooms, one with an en suite shower room, all decorated very prettily with floral prints.
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She swings a prettily booted foot on to the coffee table.
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The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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I like to watch the Belgian hares eating their trifolium or pea-pods or grass; graceful, gentle things they are, crowding about Mr. Heaven, and standing prettily, not greedily, on their hind legs, to reach for the clover, their delicate nostrils and whiskers all a-quiver with excitement.
The Diary of a Goose Girl
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Bess did not choose to "soh," if by "sohing" is meant, as I presume, standing still and behaving prettily; for on her master's approach she snorted, attempted to rear, and ran back, giving the men at her head as much as they could do to hold her.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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Newgate, Cheapside, and the Poultry Markets; and afterwards, when your got a little farther, then to have your Baby carried by you, neatly and finically drest up; and in hearing of it, whilest it is in the standing stool, calling in its own language so prettily Daddy and
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
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_ Ay, forsooth, he's a child, you must conceive, and must be used tenderly; he was never in such an assembly before, forsooth, but once at the Warmoll Quest, forsooth, where he said grace as prettily as any of the sheriff's hinch-boys, forsooth.
In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)
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Verily the French kaleidoscope is very prettily turned!
Echoes of the Week
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I would fain that it were possible, having a regard to truth, to round off this little story prettily by telling how in a glade of "The Glen" after the demolition of the bridecake, Miss Priest and the captain "squared matters," were duly married and lived happily ever after, as the story-books say.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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Smiling prettily, she agreed to sign my timesheet, laughed over our joint inability to add up my hours correctly, and in all aspects behaved as though she had not just dobbed me in for a dressing-down and firing.
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Lisa colored prettily, showing a true emotion that she couldn't conceal.
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There are three bedrooms, one with an en suite shower room, all decorated very prettily with floral prints.
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Her field was glamour - pouting prettily in skimpy lingerie or swimwear.
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Marie carves radishes into flowers and arranges them prettily on a plate with salt and olives.
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In a small Bamboo case, prettily carved and ornamented, the Dyak carries his sirih and lime for betel chewing, and his little long-bladed knife has a Bamboo sheath.
The Malay Archipelago
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My only task was to pout, dimple prettily, and be as printable as possible.
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The ballet - set to a mix of composers including Schubert and placed in an ingeniously contrived cloudscape - makes its point concisely, coherently, and prettily.
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_A prettily designed "fitment" runs along the left-hand wall and the further wall, taking in the fireplace and doors as part of its scheme.
The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts
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They got an "A+" for effort in garnishing the platters prettily too.
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Lisa colored prettily, showing a true emotion that she couldn't conceal.
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Many of its spurs are prettily sunlit, and what they build up to is inspiring, apocalyptic, a burst of slanting sunbeams from a blue cloud-window.
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The making-up of the Madras into a turban is called "tying a head" (_marré yon tête_); and a prettily folded turban is spoken of as "a head well tied" (_yon tête bien marré_) ....
Two Years in the French West Indies
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Almost every piece opens with one guitarist playing a very simple figure at a mournful tempo while the other pokes around on his or her fretboard, sometimes tonally, sometimes prettily, most times not.
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Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.
Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
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The Princess stopped crying and looked prettily up at the shopkeeper, letting just one tear roll down her cheek.
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Its weathered wood-shingle walls, brick chimneys and prettily striped canopied windows are set amid the maple, birch and pine clad slopes of the Laurentian mountains.
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Besides this the ground outside is swardy and prettily wooded.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Soveraigne Prince, be his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very prettily said.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
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Once when I was in the bath, I saw a very prettily patterned green snake come wriggling through a gap between the wooden window frame and the mosquito netting.
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“The river-nymphs, as daughters of Oceanus, and thus of immortal parentage, are bound to possess organs of more than mortal keenness; but, as you say, the song was not so bad — erudite, as well as prettily conceived — and, saving for a certain rustical simplicity and monosyllabic baldness, smacks rather of the forests of Castaly than those of Torridge.”
Westward Ho!
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Remember to keep toe-nails trim and prettily painted as you show your feet to the world.
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All the rooms (each named after a flower) are prettily decorated in pastel colours, and the painted cast-iron bedheads are delightful.
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
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The rooms are simply but prettily furnished.
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Ideally you will be carrying a little prettily patterned or embroidered envelope containing your toilet tissues, and a similarly attractive hand towel about the size of a face cloth.
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The gomeral is much obliged," said I. "And was not this prettily done?" he went on.
David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And Fran
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A lifted young profile, ever so slightly of the father's aquilinity, a vocal-looking swell to the bosom, and a chin that locked up prettily to the protuberant upper lip.
Star-Dust
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She swings a prettily booted foot on to the coffee table.
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As a structure it had nothing about it that would attract special attention; it was simply neat, and had an appearance of comfort; but looked at in conjunction with the prettily arranged garden, with its tastefully laid out flower plots, and well stocked beds of vegetive edibles -- and which was protected from the intrusion of quadrupeds by a substantial "pailing fence" -- it was a snug and pleasant residence.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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Prettily packaged, these things make much better presents than yet another superfluous and expensive knick-knack or box of chocolates.
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The melodies lay prettily embedded in tinkling bells and other atmospheric effects, but there was little worth remembering beyond the composer's good intentions.
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'Tis a shameful scurril thing, for sure; yet it goes prettily.
Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat
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The villa of white marble was built on a gentle rising knoll, prettily wooded, at the foot of which running through a glade was a tiny streamlet clear as crystal, which with its ripple and the singing of the birds lent music to the air.
A Heart-Song of To-day
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all this is most prettily done
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An adolescent Spanish girl floats prettily in a wavy fog of coppery pink and encarmined grey, from which approving sugar-almond cherubs emerge, with unmeant comic effect, to hoist her upwards.
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‘Good day, Lord Cecil,’ she murmured at last, curtsying prettily and continuing to blush as he continued to scrutinize her.
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Her cheeks colored prettily and I had the insane urge to kiss the lips impersonating a blowfish.
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Joy was etched on their young faces as they danced to the music, passed the parcel and ate prettily-decorated cakes.
