Though Honolulu has now a commodious hotel, the residents keep up their old habits of graceful welcome to strangers.
Plastered against the rocks, and with their lithe and apparently boneless shapes conformed to the rude and sharp angles, they are a wonderful, but not a graceful or pleasing sight.
Such larger craft as passed us were the stately Burmese boats, built on graceful lines, propelled by sail and oar, with high carved sterns on which the helmsman sat aloft.
She spoke the purest Urdu, in liquid tones sweeter than any I have ever heard in thatgraceful tongue.
A gracefullittle pandal[258] had been erected wherein I was invited to witness a pwe before beginning work.
I have seen the Kinwun Mingyi lean out of his carriage and pay the graceful Burmese reverence[180] to a humble passing monk.
Ay, verily," said one, whom Cicely could see even under his disguise to be a slender, graceful youth.
The huge "Mesopotamia" lay icily at her docks, and the graceful woman had vanished from the cabins where her would-be betrayer had watched her every movement.
He dared not, as yet, ask himself why Fate had shown him, a second time, at that very window, the graceful figure of the beautiful unknown.
Over there, beyond the gloomy river warehouses, with their forests of masts, across the swiftly rushing tide seeking the unknown sea, the graceful Queen of his awakened heart was hidden from him.
There was no longer the graceful woman lingering there fascinated by the picture whose sunset glories lit up in gold and purple the lonely man's rooms.
And he stood there now, regarding the graceful figure of one whose head was hidden in her hands.
It had all fallen about in a spirit of graceful courtesy.
She was indeed a good dancer, and on this occasion outdid herself in graceful and surprising motions.
There was a magnificent lawn of thick shrubberies, and lofty umbrageous trees, and extensive lakes, across which were bits of woodland scenery, the graceful trees of varied foliage being reflected in the calm water.
The New Haven sharpie was a handsome and graceful craft, her straight-line sections being hidden to some extent by the flare of her sides and the longitudinal curves of her hull.
So we make a graceful acknowledgment of having been wrong once, for the sake of congratulating ourselves upon being so very right now.
The sounds of awakening nature had scarce begun, when a white sail stood out upon the surface of the stream, gliding lightly along like the open wing of a graceful bird.
Her graceful figure, which was still that of a child, had not attained its full stature or development; her features were those of a child, although their expression was firm and resolute.
Wanda, extending her hand with a charming smile, and with the most graceful ingenuousness.
Her graceful bow was in strict accordance with society etiquette, but a tell-tale smile lurked around her mouth when Waldemar acknowledged the introduction with a movement evidently intended for a bow, but which was only a jerk and a grimace.
The day was delightfully bright, and the soft cool breath of the brave south-east trade wind, which rippled the blue of the ocean before them, stirred and swayed and made rhythmic music among the plumed crests of the graceful coco-palms above.
It was the graceful contrary of the stupid side of weakness--especially the feminine variety.
You're too fastidious; you've too many graceful illusions.
Had it not been thought graceful in every age that young ladies should make a mystery of such appointments?
Poor Isabel was doubtless not aware that many women would have uttered graceful platitudes to cover the working of their observation.
Thy season of delight is past, And soon that gaudy, graceful form, Shall stiffen on the whelming blast.
When rehearsing his speech in favour of America, he would involuntarily add the most bold and graceful gestures.
He was often told that to his Father in heaven, he was indebted for what he most loved, and with an affecting earnestness and graceful gesture of his little head, would say, "Thank God.
Luckily, Leonidas did not see this, being preoccupied with his other graceful charmer, William Henry.
There was a moment of suspense, and then she was conscious of an awful gliding something,--a movement so measured yet so exquisitely graceful that she stood enthralled.
Those who have seen this most graceful "palmijuncus" in its native forest will recognize the neatness of the simile.
To which I duly make my little bow," replied the girl, dropping a graceful curtsey she had learned from Miss Muriel Tross-Kingdon.
Poring over the dingy scrolls spread out on the table before her, the Lady of Northampton yawned until she was moved to throw herself back among her cushions with a gesture of graceful surrender.
Above the black hedge, the square strength of his shoulders and the graceful lines of his helmed head were silhouetted sharply against the starry sky.
By the soft light, the Jotun, who was striding across the camp, saw a graceful boyish form leave the circle around the King's fire and join a group of mounted men waiting on the river bank, some fifty yards away.
She was very winsome in her smiling, and the graceful lines of her trailing robes, their delicacy and soft richness, threw about her all the glamour of rank and state.
Her backward leap, the sudden doubling of her body, and the excited clawing of her free hand, were not graceful swordsmanship, certainly, but her steel was in the right place.
Over the Jotun's shoulder, he caught a glimpse of gorgeous nobles and fair-haired women scattered in graceful groups about a sunny old garden, green in the very face of winter, thanks to the protecting shelter of the gray walls.
Surely, a rose garden is a fitting place to receive the ambassadors of a lover," she said, and straightened herself on her rustic throne, sweeping her draperies into more graceful folds.
From the crown of her jewelled hair to the toe of her little red shoe, there was not one line misplaced, one curve forgotten, while her motions were as graceful as blowing willows.
Again, a picture of the English camp-fire rose before her, and she shivered as she recognized the graceful pearled points she had last seen upon the Ironside's stately head.
Bowing, he disappeared in the dark tunnel of the archway, and the Etheling was left alone save for the graceful figure awaiting him beside the step.
I should be able to learn many graceful woman's ways from Elfgiva.
Whereupon, she instantly began telling him, giving free rein to eyes and lips and all the graceful tricks of her hands.
Though she was sixteen, her gracefulbody had retained most of the lines and slender curves of childhood; and she was long of limb and broad of shoulder.
It would be a graceful act of the France of to-day, which has so warmly revived the name and image of her maiden deliverer, to renew so touching a distinction to her native place.
His trim, graceful figure and dark good looks made him at once a focus of eyes.
He had made a small loop at one end and with it was swinging graceful ellipses in the air.
They were all made of clay, baked hard in the sun, and were of graceful shapes, and nearly as smooth and perfect as our own dishes.
They were waited upon by several sleek prairie-dog maids in white aprons and white caps, who looked neat and respectable, and were very graceful in their motions.
He climbed upon the flat stone, made a graceful bow to Twinkle, and then balanced himself first upon one foot and then upon the other, and swung slowly around in a circle, and then back again.
It is, of course, no affair of ours, but we think it would be a graceful and humane act on the part of our contemporary to give a consolation prize to the poor beast adjudged to be the ugliest.
Yea, when these graceful pigmy trees Have swayed their last in any breeze, And all is bare, I may again See the ripe heads that pierce the plain, And eat once more before I die Our garden-grown asparagi.
Moreover, the Marquis saw the young couple and "made a graceful bow.
A large arch frames a graceful stair, which winds up to the third floor in a circular movement.
Yonder in the southeast horizon we detect the tall, lithe flagpole which Major Ryson has set up as a graceful tribute to the memory of the late lamented yacht club.
Belton's eyes surveyed her graceful form and he was so impressed with its loveliness that he was sorry when she began to turn around.
