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Her own shoes were so thin, and her steps so graceful that they hardly made a sound.
You're graceful, poised, tactful and exude quite a refined, princess-like presence.
When he asked about rescheduling the meeting, Josh couldn't think of any graceful way to back out.
She rose, equally graceful, and bowed before resuming her seat, legs tucked beneath her.
The colours on the canvas merge into the music as the dancers whip up a rhythm with their graceful movements.
The ship glided over the waters with ease, like a graceful seabird sails just above water.
Lakshmi and Shanmuga display a succession of foot rhythms and sculpturesque poses, graceful movements of arms and body.
Sathya displays a succession of foot rhythms and sculpturesque poses with playful eyes, graceful movement of arms and body.
The head of one of these figures, in fact, is a further stylization of the graceful curvature traditional to Bambara antelope masks.
The cast-in-place piers are graceful, slender, and elegant with curving surfaces, spaced 142 feet apart.
The white form below us was not a rock but one of the most beautiful and graceful of creatures, the trumpeter swan.
With limber agility, she propelled herself into the air, in a graceful back flip.
This graceful dance, which is easy to learn, appeals to men and women of all ages.
His face was elegant, the graceful lines of his features nearly too perfect.
Pre-Hispanic agricultural terraces curve in graceful tiers around the southern and eastern shoulders of the steep slopes.
The road-going version of this car is graceful and, with its pop-up headlights, looks the biz.
All summer long I battled successive invasions by the marauding black squirrels that lived in the graceful apricot tree outside our window.
She's tall and attractively thin, with long, expressive limbs, a graceful neck, and a face Raphael would dream of painting.
Even though it is large, the arapaima is a graceful swimmer and it is valued as an aquarium fish as well as for food.
As she stepped out lightly to the beat in measured, graceful ballet steps, she saw her parents smiling proudly at her from the front row.
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A sprightly Cancan performance by a Russian team and the graceful ballet movements of the Vladimir-Natasha duo had the audience spell-bound.
The 30 dancers are said to perform athletic, emotional graceful routines, blending modern, ballet and jazz dance to pop music, gospel and jazz.
Three of the buildings are refurbished 19 th-century stone structures, with high ceilings and graceful archways.
Whether crossing rural areas or towns, the scenery was always graceful and neat.
Her graceful form, which bodybuilding audiences had not seen onstage since 1984, belied her arm-wrestling and powerlifting experiences.
Today, these graceful vining plants are so ubiquitous that many people overlook them.
How could the graceful Countess Olivia fall in love with a little puerile atomy who stutters and stumbles?
And while he tried to stage a graceful exit from the presidential race, there remained an abiding sense of wistfulness.
The fabric is rucking up a little and not making a graceful curve because I haven't trimmed all the seams inside yet.
After a while her posture lent itself a graceful, long-legged lope when she ran, or a silent stride when she was walking.
To drink, these graceful birds skim low over the surface scooping water with open mouths.
One can listen to the rustle of woodland leaves or birdsong and view the scurrying wild animals or the graceful gliding swans.
In an era of waifs and buffed bodies, the full-figured beauties in Rubens's works have a graceful nobility.
It is a graceful arching fern with fronds that are generally bipinnate, although the basal pinnae are tripinnate.
The chickpea is a delicate, graceful plant that branches near the ground and is usually about 2 feet high.
Her glittering, purple singlet top shifted as she moved her graceful arms, revealing the skin of her taut stomach.
Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
No doubt they will teach me how to be graceful on the snow, how to slalom with the best of them and how to stop on a sixpence.
Rossiter watched him, as lithe and graceful as ever, his slim form like a coiled spring and ready to explode with energy at any moment.
The graceful black-necked crane was designated a top-priority species to protect.
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The rowan, quickbeam, or mountain ash is a graceful tree that grows fast, but not tall, on high ground.
Johnny waved the question aside with a graceful sweep of his hand, as though all was forgiven.
This stark and achromatic poem is a world away from the graceful and well-tuned lyrics with which Campbell began his career.
Natural-finish hardwood floors help warm up the pale walls, and a flat ceiling and graceful wrought-iron chandelier add intimacy.
The backboard too is lacquer, ornamented with graceful figures in garden pavilions.
From still lifes to landscapes, graceful interiors to unwieldy allegorical scenes, his work is waywardly old-fashioned.
The result was a graceful shell of weathered brick, rose-coloured with tall, symmetrically disposed openings on each side.
His movements contradicted the others' actions, his steps were graceful and quiet like that of a doe.
From the fast-paced danger of downhill skiing to more graceful ice skating, the games are already an action-packed pageant.
The blinding sun flashed over the graceful wings of the hawk soaring through the clouds.
Some of the most beautiful, graceful, and artistic performances are the result of this drive for physical, sensate expression.
The little hummingbirds beat their wings faster and their flight is even more graceful than normal.
Fortunately, the rhetoric is kept to a minimum, and overall the film is graceful and admirably compact.
The White Admiral however is smaller, far more graceful and delicate in flight.
These are followed shortly by the lovely graceful flowers of such beardless types as the Southern species hybrids and spurias.
The stars shone down on the camp and just past the tree line, a graceful elf with golden hair stood.
These are Klings and not Kanarese, because the people of this province of Talimgo are more graceful.
The pride of Seville is the graceful 13th century Tower of Gold that guards the east bank.
In one swift and graceful movement, she threw her arms around him, burying herself in the fabric of his clothing.
The graceful lines of the woodwork seemed at odds with the rough hands that wielded the tools.
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They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the eland, wildebeest, gazelle, springbok, hartebeest, impala, etc.
He took a seat in the rearmost pew and stared straight up at the graceful geometry of the vaulted ceiling.
Long wings, forked tails and swooping graceful flight usually identify swallows.
The graceful instrumental invention illustrates Strauss's mastery in writing for wind instruments.
Very graceful it was too, like a blue bird of prey but without feathers or wings or talons or any other bird features, come to think of it.
The elephant, unwieldy and awkward yet graceful and powerful, becomes an allegory for the form itself.
They were graceful to watch in movement, though I wished for stronger color.
Suddenly the creek falls in a graceful sheet of water into a turquoise pool.
He thinks the swan was shot and we both wondered at the mindset of someone who could wound such a graceful animal.
Proenza Schouler produced tailored garments that showed refinement and elegance in their graceful design.
Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop.
Monica Swinton, 29, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste.
She shaped the space with graceful curves, amended the soil with compost, and installed drip irrigation.
It swam near the bottom with a very graceful and rapid movement and tried to conceal itself in the tufts of seaweed.
Brightly coloured saris on graceful Indian women and striking turbans on erect Sikhs are not unfamiliar sights in our metropolitan areas or small college towns.
The brand logo turned out to feature a graceful archer on horseback, in a Tatar national costume, poised to shoot his arrow.
Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
Once a tiny, flitting waif, she had become a graceful, full-figured woman.
Then he vanishes above the monkey bars, where there is a good six feet of free space above his head and begins stepping over them, graceful as a cat.
The graceful 1st action scene comes after a talky first 15 minutes.
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As a batsman, his free-flowing drives were also unforgettably graceful.
Power management software can orchestrate the graceful shutdown of critical systems when power outages extend beyond the limits of backup systems.
A graceful swan-neck broken pediment crown, spiraling acanthus, tobacco leaves, all of these help to express the character of the Aristocrat collection.
She was a remarkably beautiful woman for her age, queenly and graceful.
This graceful and prosperous old city is dominated by the fantastic arena, a well-preserved Roman amphitheatre where audiences of 25,000 attend summer opera concerts.
It tends to reduce him to the status of a scurrilous railer, despite the fact that some of Jonson's most graceful and humane verses are based closely upon that poet's work.
The characteristic aspect of Christina's style is that of using the fluid motion of wet paint in a graceful pattern, before letting it finally dry.
She had a long sheet of glossy raven hair and graceful neck.
He is powerfully built, but lithe and well balanced, with a light footed, smooth and graceful gait, has a keen sense of smell and is well able to point, set and retrieve.
As an aside, just because the Ethiopian beauty depicted on the cover was a famine victim does not make her any less graceful, willowy or beautiful.
It was an emotional speech, but a delightfully graceful, rather than unctuous and overblown, one.
Cooke's graceful reply, we're told, gave away no trade secrets.
Such anacoluthon is usually graceful and free from obscurity.
Tanny came to be known as the epitome of a Balanchine dancer, with her long legs and graceful, fluid lines.
Large dogs, such as retrievers, Dobermans, and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, make great running mates because they've been bred to have long, graceful strides and sturdy joints.
Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries?
It is a rhythmic dance full of graceful movements to welcome guests.
In one of the most graceful movements I had done to that time, I flicked my wrist and let my right-handed dagger go flying, meeting his a foot away from my face.
And the smaller arches above, how delicate and lightsomely graceful!
Rome is graceful, outlandish, grand, cold, eternal, in flux, and full of olive-rich contradictions.
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The framing is similar, and in both, the depiction of the male body is that of a graceful carving.
He looked graceful and lithe, like a man who could take care of himself.
An interior courtyard boasts a graceful arched door and elegant windows and the landing is adorned with carved wooden cherubs at the four corners of a decorated dome.
Her tail is sleek and graceful, ending in a point like an arrowhead.
Then, from my left, a tall, beautiful girl, graceful as a gazelle in skintight jeans and high heels, slinked over to me.
Conroy's essay is graceful and lapidary and attractive and assuasive.
She sent me an unexpected, funny and graceful note after the interview was published.
Nicholas II, the last Romanov, built the graceful Livadia Palace on top of a hill there.
Hazel is an English rose who is graceful, elegant and sassy.
In a genuine academic debate over selection of facts and their interpretation, people should be graceful enough to accept their folly, if and when it is exposed.
There across the room, just past the beer-bellied former jocks and the rich former nerds, I spied a poised, graceful woman with flowing red hair and laughing green eyes.
The simple melody derived from a pentatonic scale and the prevailing dotted rhythm in compound duple meter elicit the feeling of a slow, graceful Korean traditional dance.
Compared to Bharatanatyam, Mohiniattam is a slow, soft and graceful dance.
For Arabian Dance, one of the trombones was replaced by a euphonium, which makes for such a different sound, in company with the tuba, yet entirely graceful.
And I think that Dakota plays her in a graceful, non-Lolita-ish way.
The story consists of simple rhyming verses paired with illustrations of striking skyscapes, graceful animals, and a young boy amazed by it all.
The graceful, flowing S-turn executed by Norheim on bended knee, with one ski well in front of the other, became known as the Telemark Turn.
Seabury Blair, an outdoor writer from Washington, skis down from Sentinel Dome, making graceful bent-knee telemark turns.
On the whole, however, the sculpture seems like a graceful but jury-rigged Mobius strip in imminent danger of springing apart.
With 85x700mm columns and 85x560mm beams, the laminated Radiata pine portal frames create a graceful, double-curve d roof.
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Scores of dolphins, shoals of barracuda and basking fur seals provide a bonus as a graceful mollymawk, a small albatross, glides by.
His beautifully crafted opinions stand out in the New York Reports as models of scholarship, clarity of thought, and lucid graceful wordsmanship.
On my way home, I saw a pair of graceful whooper swans with an immature cygnet.
Fast, yes, but whereas the Jag XK feels every inch a roof-down rottweiler, the Lexus is more a graceful Afghan hound.
He was just as polite in his attentions as if the unplaned seat had been a carved chair of graceful shape and pattern.
If I had the space, I'd cite dozens more examples of Gould's graceful unfoldings of various Beatle tunes.
B Guernsey Lilies Also known as Nerines, Guernsey Lilies are a lovely, graceful plant that will look superb.
Cameron criticized previous Titanic films for depicting the liner's final plunge as a graceful slide underwater.
Clumpers with graceful foliage include golden goddess bamboo and Mexican weeping bamboo.
It should nonetheless be performed in a smooth and graceful manner, with one figure flowing seamlessly into the next.
The group's newshound is the plump and resourceful Ollie and Rachael, the news presenter, is graceful and quick-thinking.
Alongside regal updos, Chakra's silhouettes flirt with the '50s era, graceful and feminine, yet radiate a certain authority.
She had little features, a button nose, a pretty chin and a long graceful neck.
Unfortunately, anchusas have the defect of being coarse in appearance, with hairy leaves and stems which are neither elegant nor graceful.
Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.
Melody was that which was eloquent and graceful, while that which was unmelodic was dull and repetitive.
The menuetto second movement was a graceful dance followed by a concluding rollicking rondeau.
Little bittern, night herons, moorhen, bulbuls, rufous bushchats, several species of dove, olivaceous and graceful warblers.
Esme assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak.
Nodding tips, gently drooping branchlets, and fine, soft, dark green needles make them among the most graceful of all conifers.
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The Cinnabar collection has gently curved bombe bases with lotus flower carvings for a graceful, somewhat feminine feeling.
Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding.
In the play of fancy, Wordsworth, to my feelings, is not always graceful and sometimes recondite.
The water deer has narrow pectoral and pelvic girdles, long legs, and a long, graceful neck.
The roe deer is primarily crepuscular, very quick and graceful, and lives in woods, although it may venture into grasslands and sparse forests.
All 20 turbines describes a graceful arc reflecting the shoreline of Bangui Bay, facing the West Philippine Sea.
Its long, graceful, menacing head figure carved in the stern, such as the Oseburg ship, echoed the designs of its predecessors.
Pompeo Batoni made a career of painting the English milord posed with graceful ease among Roman antiquities.
The light catches the filigreed tendrils and graceful motion of the jellies, their orange bodies umbrella-ing along like fairy parasols come to life.
These forests are ancient, with many tree species limited to this region of Australia. This is the home of the stately jarrah and the graceful snottygobble.
Bould created the Twist Vase and Twist Pillar Candleholder in Nambe metal and here adopts a graceful form into a magical full-lead crystal votive.
He was handsome and graceful too, especially when a young man, and indeed in his whole body with the exception of his feet, the toes of which were somewhat cramped.
The grade II listed pool is triangular with graceful curves and is considered the best surviving example of its type, with the exception of the Saltdean Lido in Brighton.
The Zemlinsky Quartet play the second movement as a high-spirited polka, including the graceful rubatos and the theme's dance-like starting in the cello.
Most colchicums produce large showy flowers before the leaves emerge, the flowers at their best in autumn sunshine, opening as large, graceful goblets.
It is unavoidable that culture and biology dance together, sometimes in a graceful and seamless tango and at other times a clutchy foxtrot, stepping on each other's toes.
I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used.
One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
He was speaking to a graceful ceremony to distribute certificate to the officers of NH and MP and para medical staff on successful compellation of first aid course.
He was speaking in a graceful ceremony to distribute certificate to the officers of NH and MP and para medical staff on successful compellation of first aid course.
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Beautiful are both those women in their graceful feminicity.
We saw a goodly number of equestrians and equestrianesses as we passed along, the former accoutred in the brilliant and graceful Peruvian costume.
Throw in some graceful turtles, poisonous frogs, octopii, squid and myriad tropical fish and it was a gallery of sea life to keep us all enthralled for hours.
For example, the trochee would pass as a peaceful and graceful rhythm.
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They were often graceful and epigrammatic, but always sterling in their value and full of thought.
And, over all, there hung in graceful folds an ermine robe of spotless white.
It is a purified kind of fandango, and, when danced by Spaniards, is as graceful and pleasing an exhibition as can be imagined.
Then the ends of the ribbons can trail down the sides of the programmes sort of fluttery and graceful.
This is a most beautiful and graceful kite and combines the box kite and the older varieties.
In six Neptunian months a forest of graceful larches would spring up to a height of seventy or eighty feet.
Moya's chaperon, facing the inevitable, capitulated as graceful as she could.
It is one of our most graceful and delicate species, its long-tapering outline suggesting the bulblet bladder fern.
The canary creeper is another plant, which is so airy and graceful that one never seems to tire of it.
All the members of the genus are slender and graceful in their shape and gnatty in their general appearance.
Some are graceful and smooth, however, and are canorous though never sonorous.
It requires great dexterity in cutting out the mantelet to give a graceful appearance to this innovation.
He was as big as a carthorse, as graceful as a dray and as meek as a missionary.
My mother was the most celebrated Catherine wheel of her day, and was renowned for her graceful dancing.
Not tall in stature but well and lithely built for a golfer, he has a full, easy, and graceful swing.
That graceful maiden is too lovely for any destiny meaner than a royal marriage.
Her narrow beam, her graceful sweep of teakwood rail, and the long, tapering counter suggested speed.
She was a graceful girl, and while gracefulness is sometimes feline, Letha's was more nearly kittenish.
Its cousin, the cero, is very similar in size and appearance, but has dark spots along its graceful sides.
They were, like most Spartan choral dances, renowned for their graceful rhythms.
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It is new, but still it appropriates to itself what is graceful and useful in the past.
He greatly admired the graceful arch of his antlers, but he was very much ashamed of his spindling legs.
Seen from a distance its graceful leaf-crowns resemble those of the cinnamon fern.
In the middle of the table stood a spiraea, a most handsome and graceful plant.
Springing in a slow, graceful curve from the underpart of the body over the forecarriage is a splasher of crimson patent leather.
He began by a graceful cut for two, and followed it up by a square leg hit clean out of the ground.
Cherokee roses starred the hedges, or, adventurously climbing the highest trees, flung downward graceful pendants.
His attitudes and walk were graceful, picturesque, often superb, but not absolutely free from conventionalism.
Jack answered by a graceful flourish of his hands, and a stave of another song.
This is very graceful, and the flowers are fine for cutting and for use with sweet pea bouquets or with other choice flowers.
Their motion was so indolently graceful that I could not help gazing at them.
These Canzoni a Ballo, though they lack the supreme beauty of Poliziano's style, are stylistically graceful.
But it is in graceful, refined France that cookery is and has been, a pet art.
It was graceful, unemphatic, composed of playful repartee and merry glances.
This was a tall, graceful Italianate man, who carried his fifty years with the grace and ease of thirty.
This suite of pearls, then, will form a most graceful addition to her toilette.
Avellaneda was a graceful writer of lyrics in which there was feeling and melody but little depth of thought.
The creatures bounded along with a wild and graceful freedom, until they reached the debouche of the pass into the valley.
To borrow the lines of these fleet and graceful models and apply them to the design of a deepwater ship was a bold conception.
She's as graceful as a deer, and I'm sure she'll run as fast as any of them.
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The red and white roses of her strong, graceful body were chaste and uncrumpled.
It seemed to me that a rate-collector, presenting a demand note, could have boasted a more graceful errand.
The desmid has a coat of cellulose, and a less graceful coat of cellulose encloses the Peridinean.
His robes were of azure silk, and floated in graceful folds as he passed along.
A subtle charm came from her streaming65 hair and her uncorseted and graceful figure.
The poetry is not of that tumid nature which Pindar uses, but of the graceful simplicity of Homer's verse.
In a family famous for graceful, rapid flight, the barn swallow easily excels all his relations.
Berenice accepted of the ring in the most gracious, the most graceful manner.
His works are full of graceful and suggestive thought, but occasionally suffer from length and discursiveness.
She does evil with the easy, graceful air of an almsgiver distributing charity, and she does good with the stealth of a criminal!
Figure a of the same plate is characterized by a medially placed triangle and a graceful pendant from which hangs seven feathers.
His movements were graceful and self-possessed, and he had his father's sweetness of voice.
She crossed the room in a graceful swirl of draperies, and laid a finger on the bell.
The answering melody, with more of sentiment, though always in graceful swing with tricksy attendant figures, has a longer song.
While they sing they circle around the bodhi tree and pose in graceful attitudes.
It is not bon ton to be learned, but it is a graceful thing to indicate that you have forgotten a good deal.
Especially graceful and tender is the andantino, accompanied only by a quartet.
What a form she had, what a face she had, what a graceful, variable, enchanting manner!
The outline of his work is very graceful, and the arching admirable.
She went back to her horse as lightfooted and graceful as an antelope.
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Here and there gigantic, graceful pines stood in stately groves.
Their undulating flight, graceful aerial curves, and the shading of their colours, attracted and charmed one's looks.
She was a delicate, ethereal creature, swaying and willowy, light and graceful of movement.
A bravura and finale of light, graceful melody close the opera.
She sang, in a small and graceful voice, a cavatina, Tanti Palpiti.
A graceful note on Christmas Eve accompanies her little gifts.
He is tall, well-knit, clean-limbed, and graceful in his motions.
It is a cosmetic which makes homeliness graceful and winning.
She was graceful, but there was a quiver in the very shape of her that was like the lines of an aspen.
She was head and shoulders taller than the little lawyer, slim as a lath, and yet wonderfully graceful.
Yes, there was the graceful figure, in its mourning garments, standing out tall and black and motionless against the leafy background.
She satirized herself in a very graceful way for her vanity and ambition.
Nothing is more graceful than the reel and schottische of the Highlands.
Bill Totts did not slouch, but somehow his whole form limbered up and became graceful.
The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns.
On 15th of December, we left to the east the bewitching group of the Societies and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific.
She rose with a little laugh and stood leaning towards the fire, her elbow upon the broad mantel, tall, graceful, alluring.
This graceful drapery recalls the chlamyde worn by the Diana of gabies.
Shea was just as good and graceful, as he was bad and gawky.
Her foot, glimpsed beneath her skirt, was slender and graceful, too.
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And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills.
Her perfect figure, perfectly encased, was graceful in every long curve.
Even the Ape-man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful.
Mr. skee waved his hand toward her with a large and graceful gesture.
Nomads riding long-legged, graceful mounts like hornless deer.
Her smiths take silver ingots and work them up into all manner of graceful and beautiful forms.
Here is a specimen of his graceful blending of irony and humor.
The handwriting was, like Hypatia's, graceful and self-conscious.
Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact?
Old Glory was made of silk and hung in graceful folds from the wall.
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance!
He was a dapper young fellow, with a light brown mustache and blue eyes, and a graceful figure.
The joyfulness of the Vagabond is no mere light-hearted, graceful spirit.
She came into his arms with all the graceful and perfect naturalness of a child who has wandered a little away from home.
She is a little taller, and she is so graceful when she milks the kine.
It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another.
How graceful and kitten-like they are, in their lazy, lolling motions!
The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful.
Three graceful women, mara's daughters, sing in a low enticing voice.
They turned into a long, dim corridor that was lined on either side with tall, graceful plants.
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The theme was in somewhat the nature of a mazurka, sweet and graceful.
These little myths and Metamorphoses of gems are ingenious and graceful.
Its boundaries are unconstrained, and graceful, and sweeping.
He was as natural as a bird, and as graceful and unembarrassed.
Presently Robin entered the edge of the wood, when whom should he see but Arthur-a-Bland, busily creeping after a graceful deer that browsed alone down the glade.
All that was beautiful and graceful in the martial array had disappeared, and what was now visible was only calculated to awake terror or compassion.
Superb, majestic, his graceful tail extended and quivering, and his two eyes of fire riveted full upon his prey, stood Numa EL ADREA, the black lion.
Her face relaxed as she noticed the ease with which he got the big trunk to his shoulder, and her eyes glowed as they glanced over the graceful massiveness of the man.
Perhaps you have only seen a ballet rustic, smiling like a merry countryman in crockery, with graceful turns of the haunch and insinuating movements of the head.
The graceful white trumpeter swan, the friendly backyard brown-headed nuthatch and the coastal black skimmer could lose more than 99 percent of their current ranges.
They were clad in graceful, flowing robes, highly ornamented with metal and jewels, and their luxuriant hair was of a beautiful golden and reddish bronze.
Then came a representation of the light and graceful movements of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired.
With light and graceful steps he danced through the long saloon, with the sovereign who thought never to have found a more dexterous and excellent dancer.
Maggie thought he must be a very elegant and graceful bartender.
Monte Cristo on the contrary, preserved a graceful suavity of demeanor, aided by a certain degree of simplicity he could assume at pleasure, and thus possessed the advantage.
Her complexion was delicate and perfectly natural, the graceful lines of her figure suggested more the immaturity of youth than any undue slimness.
He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
Reach of a Suffolk Punch, swipe of a Mildenhall greyhound, the fine balance gifted superior acceleration and velocity, embodied in a clean, graceful gait.
And not only the form of edifices, but the sites selected for them, revealed the thought which they represented, according as the symbol to be expressed was graceful or grave.
A graceful cradle of willow, with all its dainty furbishings, was laid upon the pyre, which had already been fed with the richness of a priceless layette.
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The travelers anxiously regarded the upright, flexible figure of the young Mohican, graceful and unrestrained in the attitudes and movements of nature.
