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Example sentences for "archness"

Lexicographically close words:
archivist; archivists; archivolt; archivolts; archly; archon; archons; archonship; archpriest; archus
  1. There came an archness into her look that inflamed me the more.

  2. She turned away, so that for the moment I could not see her face, then looked at me with exquisite archness over her shoulder.

  3. Clifford coloured for a moment, but replied with a quiet archness of look, "Family!

  4. Lucy raised her eyes, and something of her natural archness played in their expression.

  5. When, with some misgivings, and confused, he suggested a change, a touch of the girl's old archness flashed out.

  6. She threw off her veil and smiled up at him with all the alluring archness at her command.

  7. The one actually spoken gave an opportunity of the merriest archness to Mrs. Bracegirdle, and was calculated to put the audience in the best of good humours.

  8. He spoke upon this subject with great archness and candour: of course as a City man he would be glad to do a profitable business anywhere, and the B.

  9. All her animation and archness had not rendered it half so pleasant to look upon.

  10. In the fall Miss D'Arville returned to London, where she appeared in "Carina," in which piece her charming archness was a feature.

  11. Her archness was not bold nor unwomanly, and her vivacity was well within the bounds of refinement and good taste.

  12. Coquetry, any notion of archness or frivolity, must be rigorously banished.

  13. Somehow I thought that she avoided my eye, and answered my remarks with less than her usual archness and vivacity.

  14. And yet, now and then, as the joy in my lord's heart overflowed at his lips, I could observe that archness rising to her eye, that makes one both love and fear her.

  15. First impressions are almost always indelible: there was a frankness and sincerity in his manner, and an archness and vivacity in his countenance and conversation, that imperceptibly attached me to the young stranger.

  16. That is the revolutionary idea of this sans culotte reformer," continued the good Father, shaking his yellow finger with gentle archness at the young man.

  17. A gleam of antique archness and venerable raillery lit up his murky, tobacco-colored pupils; a spasm of gallantry crossed the face of the secretary.

  18. The men were never spoken to by any of the women but with a certain archness which Rosalie detested; and they never spoke to the women but with a certain boisterousness, a kind of rubbing together of the hands and a "Ha!

  19. I suppose your expectations are not high in the matter of finery," said Ermine, with a certain archness of voice.

  20. Brown set his teeth half savagely, the little witch tantalizing him with the swiftness of her speech, the coy archness of her manner.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.