How To Use Daintily In A Sentence
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Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night.
CHAPTER 18
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He handed round a plate of tiny sandwiches, daintily arranged in rings.
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She blew her nose as daintily as possible.
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the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold
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She picked up her napkin and dabbed daintily at her mouth.
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Rachel daintily arched one eyebrow as if I had mentioned inviting her servants to some feast or revelry.
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She dumped the contents of the box into a bonbon dish that stood upon the hall table and picking out the chocolate piece, ate it daintily while she examined her purchases.
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She was taking tiny bites of a hot dog and daintily wiping her lips with a napkin.
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He looks sun-tanned and well, clearly enjoying his cup of tea as he daintily curls his fingers round the handle.
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Lifting her dress a few inches, she ran daintily across the grass and fumbled for a moment with the latch of the gate, locking it quickly behind her.
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Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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If you take the rod out and fill the inside bottom part of your mouth with water (or red wine for a more spectacular effect) then purse your lips tightly and push, the liquid will come daintily squirting out the hole.
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Behind them came a young woman in the glory of youth, and daintily silked, beautiful in face and form, with diamonds around her fair neck.
DARKWATER
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Rudolph noted that she sliced her food in a ladylike manner and wiped her mouth daintily with her handkerchief now and then.
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Many a daintily cloaked figure stole, masked, to the rendezvous in the garden under the cherry-trees, and many a duel was fought in the pleasant meadows to the south which we called Vauxhall; and there I have seen silent men waiting at dawn, playing with the coffee they scarce could swallow, while their seconds paced the path beyond the stile, whistling reflectively, switching the wild roses, with a watchful eye for the coming party.
The Reckoning
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Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
The White Company
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Guide me, who erst trod so daintily the streets of Troy, but now am but a slave.
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He touched his forelock as though in salute and watched as she tripped daintily out of the stables, lifting her skirts an inch or two so as not to muddy them.
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Well-kept flowerbeds lined the front of the house, a few vines climbing daintily up trellises nailed to the walls.
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Mariah sipped her tea and daintily wiped her coral-linted mouth with a linen napkin.
Two women
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Refining on the more delicate sound of stipes, the Latins got 'stipula,' the thin stem of straw: which rustles and ripples daintily in verse, associated with spica and spiculum, used of the sharp pointed ear of corn, and its fine processes of fairy shafts.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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Some people wear casu - ally and some people are dressed daintily.
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His other contribution to the evening is to make some sandwiches - daintily quartered, but containing peanut butter mixed with sardines.
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She sipped her drink politely and daintily, her dress swishing as she moved forward once finished.
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High, bright windows shone at us when children; told us of the happy life of music in those houses where the girls stepped daintily and smiled at us, a joke we thought uncivilised and cruel.
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A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up à la poulaine, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.
The White Company
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Then they carried the rest to the King’s palace, where they called the kitchener and giving him the flesh said, “Dress this meat daintily, with onion-sauce368 and spices, and ladle it out into two saucers and bring them hither at such an hour, without delay!” —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Your backyard becomes voluptuous with pomegranate and almond trees, lemon groves, and hedges of flowering cactus, dazzling banks of azaleas, marble - basined fountains, in which chestnut-and-white pond-herons step daintily amid exotic water-lilies, while golden pheasants strut about on alabaster terraces.
The Toys of Peace, and other papers
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Plopping herself daintily down on the chair opposite Leah she poured herself a bowl of cereal, not a word escaping her once.
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A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up _a la poulaine_, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.
The White Company
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Jean made two deep bows, the Americans two little ones, after which they foraged in their bags, from which each drew a 'rouleau' of 1,000 francs, daintily inclosed in green sheaths of serpent-skin, clasped with gold.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
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Then ships bearing news might reach Alexandria by the dozen -- that is, the greybeard added with a defiant glance at the daintily clad city gentleman -- if they were allowed to pass the Pharos or go through the Poseidon basin into the Eunostus.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Out they come, first Bryan daintily carrying one small red-lacquered box, followed by Moshe struggling with two big old valises and the phonograph, instantly walking into a tree.
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Lying the sketchbook face down, Gabby picked up her coffee cup and sipped it daintily.
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Miss Adela Strangeworth came daintily along Main Street on her way to the grocery.
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Her lips were a red of the same tint, as was the polonaise she was so daintily flaunting - over which, she wore a black cloak.
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Bonzes march in front, dressed in robes of black gauze, having much the appearance of Catholic priests; the principal object of interest of the procession, the corpse, comes last, laid in a sort of little closed palanquin, which is daintily pretty.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night.
CHAPTER 18
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She smiled daintily at him and realized what a truly divine time she was having.
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Antoine, who toiled puffingly, Jacques, who stepped daintily and seemed fearful of treading on stones and briars, and last of all François, who moved at a measured pace, with long strides, retaining his air of profound meditation.
An Enemy to the King
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Books preserve, daintily, the redolence of their first reading—the beach, that apartment, that attack of croup, that flight to Indonesia.
The Joy of Reading 'Pinocchio'—On Paper
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As the reverend gentleman tripped daintily down the summer street that lay between the blue river and the purple mountain, he cast his mild eyes hither and thither upon human nature, and the sentence he had just penned recurred to him with pleasurable appositeness.
For the term of his natural life
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No wax doll was ever more daintily and lacily dressed.
Georgina of the Rainbows
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There, in a Madonna Assunta carved in wood and plaster, and daintily painted as it seems he loved to do, you have perhaps the most charming work that has come from his bottega.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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A hooded crow, large and muscular beside the smaller waders, stabs its way through the pile, not once bothering to look up, while a single redshank steps daintily across the weed's surface in search of a likely area to pick over.
Country diary: Benbecula
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He handed round a plate of tiny sandwiches, daintily arranged in rings.
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Here I munched my sandwich and watched a sheep carefully and daintily nibble flowerheads off thistles.
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I sat there like a nerk, daintily at breakfast on top of one of the great masonry teeth which protruded from the floor of the vast arena.
The Vatican Rip
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With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner.
The Wrecker
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The girls are both daintily dipping their pretzel sticks in their water before taking bites.
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The larl had wanted to die, she'd swear it, and now the beasts came forward daintily, almost ritualistically, to taste the brains, the young first and then the old.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
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The queen's bedchamber sits daintily festooned with floral pinks and lilacs in a combination with gold, overlooking the south parterre.
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she nibbled daintily at her cake
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She bit daintily into a wurflecake and slipped a bit to Pinky who — just as daintily — snuffled it down.
2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
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A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up a la poulaine, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.
The White Company
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Rowdy pigs pushed the passers by off the side walk; tipsy pigs hiccoughed their version of "We wont go home till morning," from the gutter; and delicate young pigs tripped daintily through the mud, as if, like "Mrs. Peery-bingle," they plumed themselves upon their ankles, and kept themselves particularly neat in point of stockings.
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