How To Use Prettiness In A Sentence
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She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray.
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Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
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A great affecter of wits and such prettinesses; and his company is costly to him, for he seldom has it but invited.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Powlett showed no signs of leaving the house, which, even the many women in the village, who envied her for her prettiness and neatness and disliked her for what they called her airs, acknowledged that she managed well.
Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots
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A whore captivates a rich man with her coquettish prettiness and is rescued from life on the streets.
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Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten.
A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
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Unfortunately, it mimics its own unwarlike Italian soldiers by paddling in the shallows of fun and prettiness, ignoring war, death and drama for as long as possible.
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I walk into the scrupulously spotless store, and the first thing I see is an adorable girl with retro chocolate-box prettiness and 40s red lipstick smiling at me from behind the counter.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale
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But the placid prettiness of Marjorie appealed to him far more than the cold, disdainful beauty of the young woman he had called ungenerous, and who had in her turn called him a cad.
The Imaginary Marriage
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Her songs are tough and earthy, hating mere prettiness when fieriness or forcefulness are required.
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The "minx" had lost her colour, and, for the moment, her prettiness.
Sir George Tressady — Volume II
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And thus what slopwork, what toymakers ', ironmongers' stuff it all was! of a prettiness fit to make you cry, a silly sentimentality fit to make your heart turn with disgust!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5
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Still, there's nothing especially new in the themes or the feelings expressed, and Mr. Gordon's edgeless music goes for surface prettiness and sentimentality instead of grit.
An Artifact of Indulgence From Bernard Herrmann
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Ain't nothin 'gonna change that prettiness, but ain't nobody ever gonna convince her that maybe she's a babe.
The Day Bari And I Finally Met
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We know that Ms. Lavenham is on the road to wisdom, however, when James tells us she is ‘already half aware that, while good looks and prettiness were benisons, beauty was a dangerous and less amenable gift.’
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Their bland prettiness makes them more enticing as shark chum than as characters, but then a funny thing happens once they're at sea.
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He was finally bored with her youthful prettiness and desired her body no longer.
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She was a woman of about thirty years of age, dressed poorly, in old garments, but still with decency, and with some attempt at feminine prettiness.
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People commented on the prettiness of the cottage.
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[551] A pleasant study, in poetic use of imagery and phrase, is the gradation from the bare and grand Lucretian simplicity of _silentia noctis_, through the "favour and prettiness" (slightly tautological though) of the Virgilian _tacitae per amica silentia lunae_, to the recovery and intensifying of magnificence in _dove il sol tace_.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The only pretty girl whose prettiness appealed to Rowcliffe had an "adenoid" mouth which he held to be a drawback.
The Three Sisters
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Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
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A deer being chased by a wild dog, hurtling across some large featureless plain beneath a sky the deep blue-black of ink, interspersing its run with elegant bounds, that delicate prettiness even in its death-flight.
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His skin glowed like warm honey in the noon sun — smooth, his face with its trace of epicanthic folds and full lips saved from prettiness by a small, jagged scar on one cheek.
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Their prettiness are in the selfish mind and in the untrained eyes behind the blinkers of this blind beholder!
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There were others, of course, louder and more bouncingly helpful, but it was Jo's cool face, tidy brushed-back hair, thin body, and speechless grace which provided the secretive prettiness I needed.
Cider With Rosie
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She loves Anthony, a dapperling in person, with nothing to recommend him physically but a missy prettiness.
