"Adorably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Elizabeth was adorably patient. She surreptitiously drew towards her a cane chair, a doubtful-looking article of furniture upon which she seated herself slowly ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... down again at the crystal while speaking; her attitude was penitential, but the faint smile on her lips adorably mischievous. Presently she glanced up at him to see how he was taking it. He must have been taking it very ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... wood of his time knew so well how to treat the peach bloom of a woman's skin or the charm of a woman's face and body. His women are the pick of the lovely girls of Wuerzburg and its surroundings. Each one is adorably beautiful. Here is Veit Stoss." He took a portfolio from a shelf filled with portfolios. "Veit Stoss is superior to Riemenschneider in force of temperamental expression; he has capacities in his passions that ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... the complement of man. Her eyes were eyes you could imagine laughing at you, mocking you, teasing you, leading you on, putting you off, seeing through you, disdaining you; but constant in them was the miracle of womanhood; and you could imagine them softening adorably, filling with heavenly weakness, yielding in womanly surrender, trusting ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... in a tone of voice so adorably kind that the bitterness of her grief was changed to something inexpressibly tender. "I too have made mistakes; I have worked uselessly for my country when I thought I was being useful to her. But now I mean to take another path. If I had sold groceries we ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac
... looked, on this, quite adorably—that is most wonderingly—grave. "How do I know, my dear Jane, why in the world we're ever asked anywhere? Fancy people wanting Edward!" she exhaled with stupefaction. "Yet we ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... something! This man—I asked it in the telephone—has been gone away for many weeks in the west on business and he is coming back soon—and I want you to make a way—to bring him to the little rectory yard some evening. It is only a 'pretend' of mine—" she blushed adorably, "perhaps, I can't do it. But I will try. I will be by the gate and you shall say, 'Here's a girl you used to know, Dudley Hamilt!' And then you'll hurry off and leave it for me—I can't pretend I'm young and pretty but I can pretend I'm—I'm a little amusing—and it will be the last ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... called him "Morry"; scarcely ever coquetted with him; and let him freely into her secrets. It is easier to see why Maurice was attracted to her; for not only was Ephie pretty and charming; she was also adorably equable—she did not know what it was to be out of humour. And she was always glad to see him, always in the best possible spirits. When he was dull or tired, it acted like a tonic on him, to sit and let her merry chatter run over him. And soon, he found plenty of makeshifts to ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... trust thee, Robin? Can I trust thee? Answer me true!" she implored him, adorably ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... smiling at the back of her head, where the tawny hair curved up adorably from the soft, ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... is perhaps the gayest, least responsible, and most adorably witty of all English comedies; just as "Salome" is the most richly colored and smoulderingly sensual of all modern tragedies. One actually touches with one's fingers the feasting-cups of the Tetrarch; and the passion of ...
— One Hundred Best Books • John Cowper Powys
... had changed and improved! It was she and yet not she. She seemed riper, more developed, more of a woman, more seductive, more desirable, adorably desirable. ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... Marche's eyes, smiled adorably, with a slight nod of comradeship. Then, the smile still faintly curving her lips, she crossed her legs in the pit, and, warming her hands in the pockets of her coat, leaned back, resting against the ...
— Blue-Bird Weather • Robert W. Chambers
... young, adorably young, a girl of twenty in fact; very fair—a rare complexion in this corner of Brittany, where the race runs swarthy—very fair, we say, with great grey eyes between almost black lashes; her brows, as fair as the hair, seemed as if they had a darker streak in their midst, which gave a wonderful ...
— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti
... keenly in the eyes as she came back from the door, still intensely excited, adorably transfigured. She opened her lips to speak—the happy exclamation on her lips, ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers
... girl-wife of his was adorably feminine, and she decided without inquiry that she was the cause of ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... in her wedding white, and with her arms full of roses, when she obeyed the summons to the stage door on being told that the great manager wished to see her. She came toward him, flushed, excited, adorably pretty. She laid down her roses and held out her hand, shy, ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper |
