How To Use Dainty In A Sentence

From up stream came the babble of the brook like dainty laughter.
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
A raftful floats by every day, dainty blue canopies flaring in the breeze. Poetry, Please « Tales from the Reading Room
We don't do the dainty minuet of the newspaper editorial page.
When she veils her dainty body of the delicatest grace: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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Emily Travis was dainty and delicate and rare, and whether in London or Klondike she gowned herself as befitted the daughter of a millionnaire mining engineer. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
Dynamic football is more en vogue than dainty. Times, Sunday Times
Held by the stalk at the bottom, they look like dainty fans with a wavy edge. Times, Sunday Times
He painted oils of industrial buildings in a precisionist style, and he also did dainty flowers and fruits in watercolors. Portrait of An Artist
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
Carefully she pulled the dress over her undergarments, and lightly slid her feet into the dainty shoes that her mother had once bought her.
Other species lured by the Indian summer include the distinctive crimson speckled, the dainty vestal moth and Spoladea recurvalis, an extremely rare tropical species. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
We had cod goujons, which came with tartar sauce, and a slab of flavoursome chicken liver paté with a sweet redcurrant sauce and dainty triangles of toast.
These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.
Cocoa and chocolate are admissible only with the dainty, æsthetic varieties, in which fruit or some kind of sweetmeat is used. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes
And girls, do remember to gently brush your hats after wearing to keep then neat and dainty as a flower before you place them on a hatstand.
Other critics, who do like him, but who have limited their study to a certain portion of his books, compare him to a worker in gold, who carefully chases or embosses dainty processions of fauns and maenads. Essays in Little
She is wearing her original dainty lawn dress with lace edged bertha collar, pigeon breast front and matched underwear.
Imagine stodge in the middle of August, when all you want is a dainty cucumber sandwich and a bowl of strawberries before skipping off for a game of tennis.
“Mony a dainty ane,” said Madge; “and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
One was of pretty pink glazed calico and of some other shiny stuff called 'chintz' -- white, with tiny lines of different colours; she also bought some red cotton velvet and neat-looking white spotted muslin, and several yards of very narrow lace of a very small and dainty pattern, and other things, all of which interested Alie very much indeed, though after a while Biddy got tired of looking on, and went and stood at the doorway of the shop. The Rectory Children
Bassist Palladino can strum four strings, but his notes are delicate, dainty plucks compared to Entwistle's ability to work an electric bass.
This sausage-like concoction is sliced into dainty rounds and served with sweet dipping sauce.
O 'kebbuck [50] whang'd, an' dainty fadge [51] to prie; [52] Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
Shakespeare, in _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, represents him as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
Wild flowers such as dainty purple gentians blanket the meadows. Times, Sunday Times
A soft, plain-weave linen or cotton fabric, calendered to give it luster, often used for dainty and delicate things such as handkerchiefs, underwear, aprons, and blouses, but it comes in heavier weights as well. HOME COMFORTS
But the flesh-coloured chiffon was covered in delicate embroidery and the revealing bodice took refuge in an ultra feminine jacket with dainty ruffling on the collar and cuff.
When the dainty shadings of taste are over-shadowed by a "lardy" flavor, the _true_ taste of the food itself is lost. The Story of Crisco
Rather more plush-looking are the women's evening shoes from the turn of the 20th century, fashioned from dainty red satin and black lace.
The little girl wore a dainty dress.
Lastly, I would like to say a person might not be very pretty or very dainty; that is not what I am trying to talk about.
The tea was excellent; the toast was in dainty, delicate, thin brown strips. Melbourne House
Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tea rooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom. Chapter XVIII
From mid-June through July, you should see profuse wildflowers, from the dainty, lavender pasque flowers to penstemons in shades of blue and purple.
For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
A delicate looking plant with much branched slender stems and dainty powder blue flowers.
It was positively with trepidation that he presented himself before her very soon after his arrival; and an undeniable blush "mantled" his cheek -- if a blush can be said with any propriety to mantle the male cheek --- when he marched into the drawing-room, where she was doing a dainty bit of embroidery, and with much simplicity and directness said, "You said I might come, you know, and I have come; and I begged of Ethel to come too, but she could not leave my aunt," before he had so much as shaken hands. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
Chika picked her mare, a dainty pinto named Lassi and slipped a bridle and saddle on the mare.
It was as large as a small room; three sides of it formed by minute wirework, with occasional draperies of muslin or other slight material, and covered at intervals, sometimes within, sometimes without, by dainty creepers; a tiny cistern in the centre, from which upsprang a sparkling jet. Kenelm Chillingly — Complete
That was why the father, arriving from Berlin, had on his own initiative brought them an English governess; for the English are admitted by their continental friends to excel in this special branch of manners, while their continental enemies charge them with being "ostentatiously" well groomed and dainty. Home Life in Germany
And then there's food - glorious food - tables groaning with breads, pies, fruitcakes and dainty sweets wrapped with red and green ribbon.
There are now four galleries, and the pubs have been supplemented by dainty cafés.
Imagine stodge in the middle of August, when all you want is a dainty cucumber sandwich and a bowl of strawberries before skipping off for a game of tennis.
For Dolly, growing anxious about his meaning, yet ready to think about another proposal, was desirous to sit down on the sweet ledge of grass, yet uneasy about her pale blue sarsenet, and uncertain that she had not seen something of a little sea-snail (living in a yellow house, dadoed with red), whom to crush would be a cruel act to her dainty fabric. Springhaven
I took up the dainty purpled and ermined mozzetta. My New Curate
She was dressed in pale pink silk, her gown gently caressing the floor and her head adorned with a dainty, bejewelled crown.
She did this acrobatic drunken tumble from the sofa, and somehow or other, even though she rolled and rolled, the dainty little champagne glass remained upright and her champagne remained unspilt. The best performance I've ever seen: Greta Scacchi
My mother-in-law's sandwiches are the dainty cut-off-crusts variety - so thin and delicate that my family barely recognises them as sandwiches.
The pure gold was wrought to form fragile golden leaves and dainty roses on a vine.
Although the word "pixie" is commonly associated with dainty fairies and forest sprites, the Wired Top Stories
The horse YOU want is not a pretty, dainty flyer, but a stayer, that is sure and that brings in good money, not big odds, but good money. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
The slipper was a pretty one, made of pink plush with a dainty heel and a shining buckle set in a small pink bow. A Little Girl in Old Boston
a dainty teacup
Knitwear is key and appears in every imaginable form: an ankle-length Aran dress, long tweedy knit cardigan, sexy fine knit evening top shot with lurex, dainty lace effect camisole or soft stripe sweater.
It is asserted, and probably with some degree of truth, that when dainty, over-fed stock loathe their food, they are induced to eat greedily by mixing the "condimental" with their ordinary food. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
I also know she would look dainty and elegant while eating a bacon sandwich. The Sun
Just at the moment when they were taking the dainty animal from the spit, they saw Edmond springing with the boldness of a chamois from rock to rock, and they fired the signal agreed upon.
O 'kebbuck [50] whang'd, an' dainty fadge [51] to prie; [52] Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3
Tracy King was a dainty, petite blonde with platinum hair and a blindingly white smile.
However, on ‘Vlu’ an almost dainty melody twitters while that basso profondo voice adds a resonance that pours out of the speakers like thick treacle.
And in the spring they make of them excellent Minnow-tansies; for being washed well in salt, and their heads and tails cut off, and their guts taken out, and not washed after, they prove excellent for that use; that is, being fried with yolk of eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, and a little tansy; thus used they make a dainty dish of meat. The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
B'fol's dainty green beauty moaned and tossed her head, unable to bend one wing that had been threaded to bare cartilage. DragonFlight
The origin of the name of these dainty shortbread biscuits is interesting.
As soon as he left our table, we spit the food out, wiping the corners of our mouth with the dainty white napkin.
I rang up Luke to ask if I was being too dainty in thinking it ghoulish to market a film of somebody contracting a deadly disease.
At first I had named her for the little bird because she was so dainty; then I found out her other virtue and her name applied even better.
This last point sounds almost absurd, but those who know will any day back the woman with dainty ankles, pretty feet, the glimpse of white lace and a plain face, against the really beautiful countenance up above the shapeless ankle-calf combine, and the foot that in two days gives a shoe the shape of the bows of a dinghey. Desert Love
There was a satinwood writing table under the window and a work-table in Japanese lacquer, very small and dainty. Politics 101
Children's clothing now allows for a lot of freedom of movement, and dainty frocks and frilled shirts are strictly for birthday parties and such.
Gypsy deep rose is an annual gypsophila (baby's breath) with dainty double and semi-double blooms on a nicely mounded plant that grows about 10 inches high.
Ahmed took great delight in fixing an assortment of dainty little sandwiches to serve at this daily ritual.
In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
A fopling poet though thou wert, dainty and perfumed, yet still a poet, sweet in a lady's bower, where all is fashioned as befits the place and time: a poet indeed! and, what is more, never wert thou turned from thy chosen path of duty by praise or purse -- although a poet and poor all the days of thy most checkered life. The Buccaneer A Tale
Upstairs, the six pastel rooms have dainty furniture and huge bathrooms with freestanding tubs. Times, Sunday Times
Quickly she fashioned a suitable maid-of-honor dress, complete with a dainty little hennin-a long conical hat with a bit of material descending from it. Harpy Thyme
Her shoes were opened toed, and had a gold buckle over the top, very dainty and feminine.
The primary rooms had festoons of "blockwork," and under an awning made from a bright patchwork quilt, made by them, hung their dainty pockets, tidies, scarfs, etc., quaintly outlined in bright needlework. The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894
Between bites of dainty sandwiches made with just-baked Yarrows bread, Noel says he dreamed of going to university in England.
Sue, Mrs. Milo's petiteness became weakness, her dainty trimness accentuated her helplessness, her delicate coloring looked ill-health; while Sue, by contrast, seemed over-high as to color, almost boisterous of voice, and careless in dress. Apron-Strings
Everything about them was dainty and feminine and naïve, innocent and pure, lovely and artless.
She also published _Lycidus, a Voyage from the Island of Love_, returning to the Abbé Tallemant's dainty preciosities. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
The shoe edit – we’ve got a great selection of treats for your feet, from dainty heels to flip flops, which will get you through every occasion this summer.
We were given tea, and some dainty little cakes.
Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
She exhaled lightly before carving away at the dainty steak on her plate before her.
There was an open-air teahouse with picnic tables and young Japanese girls in kimonos who brought dainty teacups along with two pots of tea.
popple" bark is his chief dainty -- he cannot understand and cannot tolerate this barbarian, who eats raw fish and leaves the bones and fins and the smell of slime in his doorway. Secret of the Woods
Kind-hearted but rough-mannered youths, who loved Merry very much, but teased her sadly about her "fine lady airs," as they called her dainty ways and love of beauty. Jack And Jill
Emily Travis was dainty and delicate and rare, and whether in London or Klondike she gowned herself as befitted the daughter of a millionnaire mining engineer. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
Mother and daughter danced for a few moments, Molly spinning on tiptoes like a dainty ballerina, Christina gracefully moving to the beat.
They came in their wellies and wax jackets, but tracksuits, hipster jeans, dainty shoes and sparkly tops were also on show.
‘Drink this,’ she said, handing me a dainty teacup stenciled with primroses filled with the substance she had just made.
That pretty dotted, ungored Swiss skirt will make dainty, ruffled sash curtains for bedroom windows. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
Lucinda brooded, of her very own; a dainty diamond cluster she and Charlie had chosen together.
And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for a player, and the punks of the bankside, a penny a time. Ulysses
Others are tiny and quite dainty - like the many nepetas and campanulas, or Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’.
Florals are just as adaptable, ranging from retro-flavoured patterns - think chintzy 1940s tearooms - to bold blooms and dainty petals.
Upstairs, the six pastel rooms have dainty furniture and huge bathrooms with freestanding tubs. Times, Sunday Times
Those porcelain cups and saucers are just crying out to be enjoyed with dainty pastries. Times, Sunday Times
And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for Ulysses
His father had brought home a large and curious assortment of feathers from the Himalayas; Mr. Grant sent far and wide for further supplies of suitable and distinctive material, and then he devoted himself to the task of dressing hundred after hundred of fly-hooks of every known pattern and of every size, from the great three-inch hook for heavy spring water to the dainty little "finnock" hook scarcely larger than a trout fly. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Katrina held up a light blue diamond flower, which hung delicately from a dainty chain.
And although less dainty and pleasing to the eye, spring greens make a delicious change to kale and spinach. Times, Sunday Times
It was a dainty linen handkerchief, delicately edged with snow white tatting, the initial `A" rather shakily embroidered in one corner. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Patrick Demarchelier spotlights six supermodels who mark the 12th annual Victoria's Secret spectacular by leaving their renowned dainty washables behind. November 2007 Table of Contents
And anon the king commanded that none of them, upon pain of death, to missay them nor do them any harm, and commanded a knight to bring them to their lodging, and see that they have all that is necessary and requisite for them, with the best cheer, and that no dainty be spared, for the Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
The ichthyofauna is represented by over 160 species of fish (mackerels, pikes, pike perches, carps, sheatfishes, crucian carps), the sturgeons (white sturgeons, stor sturgeons, common sturgeons, starlets) being the most appreciated as the caviar is considered to be a culinary dainty.
Behind the trappings of old age, I knew this woman must have been uncommonly beautiful in her youth: high cheek bones, a swan-like neck, trim and dainty with long flowing locks of hair.
Sweets come in many shapes, sticky buns with cream and jam, hot rolls with cinnamon and raisins, dainty cakes of assorted varieties, and sweet cream butter.
For Dolly, growing anxious about his meaning, yet ready to think about another proposal, was desirous to sit down on the sweet ledge of grass, yet uneasy about her pale blue sarsenet, and uncertain that she had not seen something of a little sea-snail (living in a yellow house, dadoed with red), whom to crush would be a cruel act to her dainty fabric. Springhaven
And gluttonized on dainty vices, sipping many a dram. Mystics and Saints of Islam
A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university. A History of American Christianity
A dainty little plant that packs a punch. Times, Sunday Times
A sense of Africa or South America may be conveyed but metropolitan pavement pounders needn't worry - these are not bush-whacking safari thumpers but dainty offerings, bearing bows and metal accessories.
It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.
Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
a dainty dish to set before a kind
You eat quail's eggs because they are dainty, sweet and delicious. Times, Sunday Times
He jumps nimbly down and dusts off her dainty foot with three smart whaps of his hand.
She had small, dainty feet that suited her petite, elegant and meticulous person.
Slowly and shufflingly, the dainty child rose to her feet.
At the upper end rose a throne of gold whereon sat a damsel, whose face was like the moon, arrayed in royal raiment and beautified as she were a bride on the night of her displaying; and at the foot of the throne was a table of forty trays spread with golden and silvern dishes full of dainty viands. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
He follows that with a selection of dainty petits fours which look comically out of place in his chubby fingers. The Sun
I photographed one group of trees to illustrate their dainty elfish dwarfishness, but realising that no one could guess the height without a scale, I took a second of the same with a small Indian sitting next it. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
Which is odd because, up until now, she has rather resembled a llama herself, with her slightly shaggy hair, other-worldly expression and dainty, measured paces.
They were clothed in dainty muslin, three as sweet young girls as one would ever meet. Just Patty
From that underground relationship, the one-flowered broomrape boasts a dainty yellow and purple trumpet-shaped flower. Kootenay Rockies - News
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
At that time young lawyers did not, as they do now, keep the fasts of the Church, the four rogation seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of these Lenten meals, which his wife took care should be made dainty by the addition of teal, moor-hen, and fish-pies, that their amphibious meat or high seasoning might cheat his palate. A Second Home
Most certainly, this dainty little madam busted out of garden cultivation to spread fast and loose.
These are plants that reflect the autumn and early winter scene beautifully; small trees and dainty shrubs cloaked in unrivalled autumn colour and bearing delightful winged fruit. Times, Sunday Times
The department of manufactures was represented by massive furniture in calamander, ebony, and satinwood, carved with the most elaborate devices, dainty laces made by the nimble fingers of village women, beautiful productions on tortoise shell and gold, heavily embroidered cloths of gold, and a large collection of the various curios for which the East is famous, besides a display of tanned hides and jewelry of exceptional merit. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
Our cheerful waitress brings out dainty sandwiches, tea cakes and cookies - all served on lovely china.
I recall clutching colorful handfuls of pale blue cornflowers, dainty yellow buttercups, fragrant pink wild roses and yes - golden black-eyed Susans.
Capeskin in beautiful new pale pastels - blue, mimosa yellow, pink and white - is seen in small dainty bags and pastel pigskin is used for a pencil box style.
It's a bar where you can enjoy good company, a fat cigar, a dainty cigarette and a glass of fine red.
That was back in 1903, and the editor's room was later described as being like a woman's boudoir, with dainty wall mirrors, chintz curtains and Queen Anne chairs.
Though he does not succeed in the delineation of the great and grand passions of our nature, he is very successful in the sphere of its humane and tender sentiments; and though open to criticism for the jaunty audacity with which he coins dainty sweetnesses of expression rejected by all dictionaries, and for an occasional pertness in asserting opinions of doubtful truth, he is so lovable a creature that we pardon his literary foibles as we would pardon the personal foibles of a charming companion and friend. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
The _mahout_ realized that unless he got him into the _keddah_ soon he would be of no use at all, and once more did his best with _koomkies_ and dainty bits of food to tempt him to follow into the _keddah_. Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories
And he looked on her hard, and the colour came into her cheeks, and she laughed uneasily, as a dainty lady when she heareth some unmeet tale. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Consuello again -- stood before him attired in a tailored suit gorgeous in its simplicity, setting off a dainty real biche lace and batiste blouse. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles
At stately Augusta, where change forever has been taken in dainty sips, this is like the frat boys just showed up with a keg. USATODAY.com - Traditions die hard at Augusta National
From Kitty there was a dainty sewing apron of muslin, with pretty blue bows on the pockets; from Amanda, a fancy-work bag, and from Debby a complicated needlecase. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
These good lady players, or some of them, are attiring themselves in these days as I like to see lady golfers attired, that is to say, there is evidence that they think a trifle less of fashion and dainty appearance than they do of security, comfort, and freedom of limb and muscle. The Complete Golfer
'Let alone, let alone,' said he; 'pigs' vittle takes noan such dainty carryin 'as milk. Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
Also, it's not as if there were a dainty lady around here who would scream and faint dead away at my shocking condition.
But in old Edinburgh all were piled one on the top of another -- the Parliament House within sight of the shops, the great official and the poor artificer under the same roof: and round that historical spot over which St. Giles's crown rose like the standard of the city, the whole community crowded, stalls and booths of every kind encumbering the street, while special pleaders and learned judges picked their steps in their dainty buckled shoes through the mud and refuse of the most crowded noisy market-place, and all the great personages of Edinburgh paced the "plainstanes" close by at certain hours, unheeding either smell or garbage or the resounding cries of the street. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
He dreamt of holding her fragile body in his arms and kissing her sweet dainty lips.
They came in their wellies and wax jackets, but tracksuits, hipster jeans, dainty shoes and sparkly tops were also on show.
Several dainty missives and a lace handkerchief, with a monogram, invited the unscrupulous and prying glance of the inquisitive newsmonger. Under the Rose
Nestled within this second basket was another basket - a dainty, bowl-like slip of a thing, charming in its seeming fragility.
A girl with tender skin, with blonde hair, a dainty idolatress of the beautiful. THE HEROINES OF JACK LONDON
The collection included brightly dyed fox fur boleros, neat cardigans, or ribbon decorated sweaters worn with flowered skirts teamed with dainty accessories such as her heart shaped bag.
The interesting thing was that whereas the pots from chambered tombs were thick and heavy, the domestic pots were really quite dainty with thin walls.
They are like dainty, sexy slippers; the allure is to wear mules with bare legs.
My pleasure was always based on greed rather than some Epicurian assessment of dainty morsels.
Again, dainty dumplings swim in soup, but these are packed powerfully with a spicy punch.
More likely, she found comfort in the selection of desserts, which are refined, even dainty, compared with the rest of the menu.
All around Kitzbuhel, verdant slopes of dainty meadows decked with mountain daisies meet calm pine forests and towering alpine peaks.
I sipped pink punch, ate dainty sugar cakes with strawberries on top, and stayed at Tom's side every moment.
I have big feet like my dad, but small dainty hands like my mom.
The paintings were too dainty, too delicate, too light and airy by contrast with the heavy pigment of the true expressionist to be considered authentic.
I did her hair, soft-like, round her forehead, all in dainty curls, and just to one side of her neck I put a bunch of most beautiful purple pansies. The Garden Party, and Other Stories
Mrs. Winters presents herself at the heavenly gate and there is asked what she has done to make the world better, and when she has to confess that she has never done anything outside of her own house, and nothing there except agreeable things, such as entertaining friends who next week will entertain her, and embroidering 'insets' for corset-covers for dainty ladies who already have corset-covers enough to fill a store-window, -- I wonder if she will be able to put it over on the heavenly doorkeeper that 'the Doctor would not let her.' The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
I would have liked to have seen the survey happen every five years or so, but there was really too much on my plate to add another little dainty.
But then there are dainty green graffs in Saint Cuthbert's kirkyard, whare ane may sleep as if they were in a down-bed, till they hear the lavrock singing up in the air as high as the Castle; whereas, and behold, these London kirkyards are causeyed with through-stanes, panged hard and fast thegither; and my cloak being something threadbare, made but a thin mattress, so I was fain to give up my bed before every limb about me was crippled. The Fortunes of Nigel
What a pretty, dainty name. Times, Sunday Times
And no one noticed a dainty palomino and a fierce black stallion riding away into the darkness…
Oh, she was ashamed of Centerville, ashamed of Mrs. Tom Tuttle's effusion, ashamed of her own handmade dress that she had thought so dainty in its white laciness. A Long-Distance Call From Jim
I never had anythin ' dainty and sweet, and I never seen nothin' like this, even in the store windas down in Winnerrow. WEB OF DREAMS
I watch a wedding party stroll down dainty Secretary's Lane to the registry office - Gibraltar is becoming a popular nuptial destination, thanks to the ease of obtaining a marriage certificate.
According to folklore, the number 10 is the dainty creator, beloved of the Welsh, who still adore the idea of the tiny string-puller, making giants move to his tune. Rob Andrew: rugby's Teflon Don under siege | Observer profile
Those porcelain cups and saucers are just crying out to be enjoyed with dainty pastries. Times, Sunday Times
My first meal was a dainty foie gras burger, served in all its unctuous richness, without burger meat, on a toasted, tea-sandwich-size bun.
We climbed a winding wooden staircase up into a quaint little room filled with over-stuffed sofas and dainty tables.
‘Girlie’ skirts and dresses are back as well, and pairing a very dainty skirt with flip flops and a plain T-shirt is a look you'll be seeing a lot of.
Popping their heads through the leaves under the trees is a remarkable collection of daffodils - some of which show signs of being very old, dainty varieties.
Bid adieu to dainty wristlets when you're hitting the trails, swimming laps or squeezing in a set at the gym.
She took a dainty little bite of the apple.
In the medieval ages, knights displayed dainty handkerchiefs given to them by their lady-love.
Can you imagine that dainty, fussbudget of a milquetoast Astaire as a sailor?
What a pretty, dainty name. Times, Sunday Times
Her peaceable kingdom ” where birds and moths and small mammals lie down with oil tycoons and lumber barons, and dainty bathroom fixtures and lovely things to eat and lawn dresses and eugenics and God and fringed gentians are all mixed up together ” is the product of an imagination of an almost life-threatening febrility. Catacomb Efreet
The days of the dainty cup and saucer seem to have disappeared forever.
If ever he made the slightest change in a dish, he vaunted the variation as an original idea, and thenceforward set up as the sovereign creator of the dainty.
A small, dark man, dapper and debonair, swallow-tailed and top-hatted, was waltzing about the stage with dainty, mincing steps, and in a thin little voice singing something or other about somebody or something evidently pathetic. Amateur Night
Their physique is feminine; they are fanciful, dainty, reserved; they are literose, sophisticated in craftsmanship, but innocently unaware of the profound agitations of American life, of life everywhere. American Literature
From dainty ditzy prints to bold flowers, be the pick of the bunch this summer. The Sun
Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
Pepper the arrangement with delicate elements such at dainty columbine flowers, oregano sprigs and wispy astilbe. Doing the Flowers
Everyone wants pretty, dainty feet and I am so looking forward to showing mine off. The Sun
For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
The plant has dainty, white, tubular flowers that flare out at the lip.
As a young chef arrives bearing dainty bowls of roast pumpkin soup, Gordon explains how the dish was prepared to concentrate the flavour.
Mona always said that she was fat, when in reality, she was dainty with a slight build.
Thus there was little incentive to develop ‘dainty dishes’ for main courses, and even less when thrift and economy were considered more important than flavour.

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