What is "winsome"

Usage examples of "winsome".

The enticingly slender nose, the elegant cheekbones, and the delicate structure of her winsome face in its entirety were admirable enough to bestir the heart of many of his gender, but it was her large, silkily lashed dark eyes, slanting ever-so-slightly upward beneath gracefully sweeping brows, that revived images of the young, gangly sprite she had once been.

Vivacious, noisy, loving the nectar of flowers and the juices of fruits, Baal Burra was phenomenal in many winsome ways, but in a spirit of rare self denial I refrain from the pleasure of chronicling some of them in order to give place to instance and proof of the reasoning powers of an astonishingly high order.

He reinflated it once a week with a bicycle pump Winsome kept in the closet.

Captain Von Reijn waggled a long finger chidingly in front of her slim and winsome nose.

It took me back across the dim gulf of ages to some happy home in dead Imperial Kor, where this winsome lady girt about with beauty had lived and died, and dying taken her last-born with her to the tomb.

He and V had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a galley kitchen, and a living room that was decorated in a winsome, postmodern, Frat-House-Basement style: a pair of leather couches, plasma-screen high-def TV, foosball table, gym bags everywhere.

The ball shows clear evidence of its terrific impact upon the fragile teeth of the winsome lass.

She sounded soft and winsome over the comlink, a sure sign HQ was in second degree alarm -- Salome never courted underlings unless she needed something.

So it befell that, in a bright dawning, As Chanticleer 'midst wives and sisters all Sat on his perch, the which was in the hall, And next him sat the winsome Pertelote, This Chanticleer he groaned within his throat Like man that in his dreams is troubled sore.

Vivacious, noisy, loving the nectar of flowers and the juices of fruits, Baal Burra was phenomenal in many winsome ways, but in a spirit of rare self denial I refrain from the pleasure of chronicling some of them in order to give place to instance and proof of the reasoning powers of an astonishingly high order.

And wondered, a trifle guiltily, whether he would have felt the same if Cirl had not been a physically esthetic, magnetically attractive, socially winsome young female.

And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a whore's shoulders.

Faia looked into the deep brown, winsome eyes of the giant otter, then glanced at her roommate.

Lightly Francesca touched little Danae's winsome face, her shining dark eyes and her tousled hair curling over her bare shoulders.

The general is an old man, she is but young, and so spirited and winsome she can't in reason care for him as for a fine, gallant gentleman like Sir Jasper.