What is "prettily"

Usage examples of "prettily".

When she retired from the ring, kissing her little hands prettily to the applauding audience, the manager turned her horse again facing the curtain in the canvassed passageway.

Her little letter was very prettily turned, and Bernard, reading it over two or three times, said to himself that, to do her justice, she might very well have polished her intellect a trifle during these two or three years.

She thanked him prettily, feeling a little uneasy at the proprietorial air he had suddenly adopted towards her.

The two young sisters, prettily arranged, looked charming, but Bellino, in his female costume, so completely threw them into the shade, that my last doubt vanished.

We haue seene some use mantels made of Turky feathers, so prettily wrought and woven with threads that nothing could be discerned but the feathers.

It was prettily devised of Aesop that the fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.

Over asphalte it could not prevail, and it has prettily yielded to asphalte, taking leave to live and let live.

Behind her came her daughter, Eugenia, prettily gowned in white silk, with a stocky gentleman, undoubtedly Lord Bennington, whose fair hair gleamed with pomade.

Behind him came the white horse Snowball with the glittery Madame Solitaire riding sideways on its bare back, facing the crowd, then the dapple-gray Bubbles with Clover Lee doing the same, both the steeds stepping high and prettily and nodding their heads so their plumes danced.

Lady Rhodine, not every woman can ride like a red Indian, and not every woman can sing as prettily as you did last night.

The furnishings were graceful of line and prettily inlaid with stained tulipwood, ivory, and ebony to form floral patterns as lustrous as lantern glass under the many coats of polished lacquer.

I was delighted at this discovery, when Lucie returned as gay as a lark, prettily dressed, her hair done in a peculiar way of her own, and with well-fitting shoes.

She thanked him prettily, rather more so than she needed to because Charles Cres swell looked so disapproving.

Even the blots of sweat on the twin cusps of her blue T-shirt are prettily semicircular.

Sir Cyril was fascinated by the mermaids and their lengthy pet, and his fascination must have showed, for Lorelei dimpled prettily at him.