But the most precious of the treasures in the chest were eight or ten small sheets of parchment, each daintily rolled and fastened with a ribbon, letters from Aurora Thyma, who had also given him the ivory cross on the wall.
But in some past generation a good Catholic had bestowed upon it an altarcloth of richest silk, daintily embroidered.
Without a word he handed it to her, and she at the same time took the burr from his hand, and daintily plucking out the chestnut tossed the burr rather contemptuously away.
When Burrows reached the end of the strip of prairie he pulled his sorrel to the right and let him pick his way daintily across a sacuista flat through which ran the ragged, dry bed of an arroyo.
George lifted the girl daintily up behind the saddle, drew on his gloves, put his foot in the stirrup, and turned to inspect me leisurely.
As she read, the tired look passed away, and over her pallid features, so daintily sculptured, stole a faint glow, such as an ivory Niobe might borrow from the fluttering crimson folds of silken shroudings.
To Kate Vaughan we owe the lace-frilled petticoat, beneath the influence of which she daintily danced her way into public favour.
Homelier visions arise of wooden chalets daintily perched high on the mountain side, or low in the valley, of milk and honey, white butter and black bread, and of fair-haired waitresses in national costume.
In truth, Loveliness was an aristocrat to the end of his tongue, which curled daintilyagainst his opalescent teeth.
Is there a barbaric force left in the world that we have been daintily trying to cover and apologize for and refine into gentle agreeableness?
The doe was feeding, daintily cropping the tender leaves of the young shoots, and turning from time to time to regard her offspring.
The impression was that he belonged among those brilliant guerrillas of both sexes, in the border-land of art and society, who lived daintily and talked about life with unconventional freedom.
She had noticed a solitary hen stepping daintily across the long wet stoop as she entered, and a woman, going up stairs, had turned to stare at her.
All the next day Gloria, dressed very daintily and looking so lovely in her expectancy that even old Jim Spalding's eyes followed her everywhere, watched from the porch or a window or her place by the creek.
What particular article of my daintily served luncheon has made the great hit with you?
Then his thoughts went farther back to the chambers that he had once occupied in London, and he saw himself and Frobisher, who shared them with him, sitting at a little table daintily furnished with choice glass and silver covers.
And she set the red boina daintily upon her hair, pulling the brim sideways to shade her eyes from the level evening sun, and smiled down at the young man who stood at her side.
The search through the pockets of Etienne produced nothing except a number of brief notes, daintily folded but indifferently written, and signed by various Lolas, Felesias, and Magdalenas.
The hands were too white and soft; the feet too small and daintily clad; the face, in spite of the low-drawn cap and the tattooing, was too aristocratic and too clean.
The daintily gloved hand was held out to him; the fair, false face was bent close: and his own face turned red and white with emotion.
He came in to bring in a small parcel, daintily done up in white paper.
Belle, picking her way daintily between the barrels; "I wonder you could touch it, to begin with!
It is my basket," grumbled Belle, threading her way daintily between the brambles with a careful regard for her flowered delaine dress.
But when they "come crowding into the home-nest," as our book daintily says, they are unnatural.
Apprentices and young girls dance together to a measuredaintily gay as their fluttering ribbon-knots.
The small, daintily tied package was inscribed "Ellen Brewster, from Father and Mother.
Although she was so daintily built that she looked smaller, she was in reality larger than the other girl, and as she straightened herself in her wrath she seemed a head taller and proportionately broad.
She came daintily up the aisle, two cheap bangles on one wrist slipping over a slim hand, and tinkling.
The girl stepped daintily out of the pile of discarded clothes, and picking her way across the room with her bare feet, sprang lightly upon the model stand.
She deftly ran the silk through the guides, and then scientifically knotting the leader, slipped on a cast of three flies and picked her way daintily to the river bank.
The brief contact had left with him a vision of the delicate parting in her soft, brown hair, and of long, thick lashes which curled daintily up from the shadow they made on her cheeks.
She had plucked a red seed-ball off the bush nearest her and was nibbling daintily the sweet pulp off the outside.
Every gesture is graceful and elegant; even a wriggling beetle is eaten as daintily as caviare at the king's table.
He snapped his fingers, and the horse lifted up his front foot and daintily placed it in his master’s hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daintily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: delicately; gingerly; weakly
