What is "charmingly"

Usage examples of "charmingly".

George: I thought you two would still be aestivating at a more popular location, letting your minds vegetate while our charmingly unpretentious hosts waited on your every biological need.

Ever charmingly on his closing eyes dawns the prospect of the aboriginal elysium, a gorgeous region of soft shades, gliding streams, verdant groves waving in gentle airs, warbling birds, herds of stately deer and buffalo browsing on level plains.

Shona was saying charmingly as Blade headed for the huge green bulk of Scales at a sharp trot.

Orthodox, scholarly, not ungenuinely religious, a gentleman of lofty aims and distinguished manners, Bishop Provoost charmingly entertained at his New York residence the rugged missionary of Otsego who came to report to him, but he was quite unable to enter into a missionary enthusiasm that appeared to him fanatical, or to understand the character of an educated man who lived by choice among the people of rude settlements and untamed forests.

Lamb has so charmingly recorded, Coleridge returned with Southey to Bristol at the beginning of 1795, and there proceeded to deliver a series of lectures which, whatever their other merits, would certainly not have assisted Dr.

Krishna the infant among the cowherds by whom he was reared, that this theme is most charmingly illustrated.

He believed that he was offering her a compliment by differentiating her from the pretty girls who were allowed to dither charmingly, prevaricate and titter before they made an answer.

Countess Cassandra was as charmingly eccentric, and her husband-as physically impressive, as rumour had said.

Even the cavalier treatment that he received from Peverel could not daunt him, since he scarcely recognised it, So here he was, not exactly on one knee, but charmingly bent before her, offering her himself, his future title, his vast fortune and approximately one-tenth of the entire acres of England, Wales and Scotland.

He had been so charmingly distressed, his luggage which Fenton had carried in was so gentlemanly, and the chaise and its appointments were so luxurious, that neither of them thought to question what he was saying--such a rich and fine gentleman as he undoubtedly was.

Now, if ever in their lives, they are charmingly dressed, and ravishing toilets take the willing eye from the objects of interest.

At any rate, instead of devoting himself solely to the Widow, he happened to be just at that moment talking in a very interested and, apparently, not uninteresting way to his right-hand neighbor, who, on her part, never looked more charmingly,--as Mr.

I was fairly taken aback at this, while Elspeth looked charmingly bewildered, but nothing must do but he bore us off to where the liquor was, and demanded of me, action by action, a description of how I'd bowled out the mighty three.

If I composed classical music it wouldn't matter, she thought savagely, everyone would say I looked charmingly eccentric.

Little Torch Key, Ramrod Key, Summemland Key, Cudjoe Key, Sugarloaf Key, Park Key, the charmingly named Perky Key, the Saddlebunch Keys, Shark Key, Big Coppit Key, Rockland Key, the huge Naval Air Station complex on Boca Chica Key-all flashed by in the next half hour.