Katy was circling around as gracefully and easily as if there were no such thing as falls to dread.
A chuckle overhead punctuated his sentence, and some fifteen feet above him, seated gracefully astride the comb of the low roof, Katy waved the book at him tantalizingly.
I'm afraid he has Harding outclassed," replied Frank watching the racers circlegracefully around the end of the pond and start toward them again.
Dulce, who is dressed in brown velvet and fur, is gliding gracefully hither and thither with her hand fast locked in Roger's.
Dulce pushes a low, sleepy-looking chair toward her, and, sinking gracefully into it, she turns her eyes up to her cousin.
Yes; he is quite everything that is nice," she says, gracefully ignoring the compliment to herself.
Tom did n't know what to make of her at first, though he thought the change uncommonly becoming and finally decided that Polly had taken his advice and was "setting her cap for Syd," as he gracefully expressed it.
Tom, who was gracefully hanging head downward from the bar put up for his special benefit.
This time all went well; and Tom, returning from an unsuccessful search, was amazed to behold Polly circling gracefully about the room, guided by a most accomplished partner.
Any time," said Dink, with one hand gracefullyresting on his hip.
Having perceived all this Dink began to recover from his panic and, with a desire to wipe out his past awkwardness, began busily to search for some subject with which gracefully to open up the conversation.
Macnooder gracefully acknowledged the applause which invariably attended his public performances and asked leave to make a speech, which was unanimously rejected.
No heroine could have played her part more gracefully and worthily, and a heroine's innocent eyes could not be expected to see as far as his "ironic" ones.
Yes, ma'am," said he, bowing very gracefully toward her.
Mrs. Brent slackened her steps that she might have the pleasure of receiving and responding gracefully to salutations from the important personages in the landau.
By all accounts, a lady would have reached for her smelling salts and gracefully fainted away; in fact, a lady never would have been in such a place at all.
He was clad in robes of green, and green plumes hung gracefully about his comely countenance.
They were both taught to cook a dinner, ride horseback, handle a pistol if necessary, or entertain gracefully in the parlor.
He had an embroidered buffalo robe thrown gracefully over his shoulders, half concealing his coat of beaded buckskin.
Dark curls hung gracefully around his well-shaped head; his face was almost girlish in its beauty and delicacy, and Oswald trembled as he held his soft warm hand for a moment in his own and looked into his large light-brown eyes.
Show the ladies to their rooms, old one,' said Harald to me, and then he bowedgracefully and wished the ladies a good-night.
The Man, being a genius who let go gracefully when he had to, decided between two bad bargains.
He had watched her, absorbed and fascinated, as with her round arms gracefully lifted in front of the old mirror she had taken off her hat and veil; smoothing, by a few deft touches, the dark crown of her hair.
And that has been," gracefully taking her hand and mine, "the bringing you two together again.
My purpose can be explained in a few words," she said, indicating a chair near the balustrade, into which the philosopher gracefully sank, after bowing the lady into one beside it.
Jessy laughed as she sank gracefully into the chair he drew forward.
He found her at home, reclining gracefully in an easy-chair in her drawing-room, and though she did not seem astonished to see him, he fancied that her expression hinted at suppressed concern.
Yield graceful compliance, and he will as gracefully give you permission to continue your journey--with, perhaps, an apology for having interrupted it!
Phebe knew this, and made no attempt to assert herself; content to know that those whose regard she valued felt her worth, and hopeful of a time when she could gracefullytake the place she was meant to fill.
It is the season of scents, and the native, untended, unpampered plants are easily and gracefully first in an uncatalogued competition.
A short cape, part of the hunting-shirt, hunggracefully over the shoulders, ending in a deep fringe cut out of the buckskin itself.
I watched the expression of her eye; I saw it kindle into admiration as it swept over the gracefully curving outlines of my noble steed.
They were clad gracefully in garments of fine deerskin, and each wore a miniature feather upon his head, marking them as children of a distinguished warrior.
Hence this long procession of young men and maidens, returning at sunset to the camp with great bundles of green grass hanging gracefully from their saddles!
Her doeskin gown with profuse fringes hung gracefully as the drooping long leaves of the willow, and her two heavy braids of black hair, mingled with strings of deers' hoofs and wampum, fell upon her bosom.
Virgil had been similarly importuned in earlier times by Pollio and Varus, and had gracefully waived the claim made on him by pleading the fitness of his own muse only for the lighter themes of pastoral poetry.
The canoe slid with its own momentumgracefully through the quiet waters, suddenly revealing a picture for the heart of any artist.
Melrose to tear up his newly made will, and gracefullysurrender his expectations as Melrose's heir to this girl of twenty-one?
Melrose's solicitors gracefully let her know that the allowance was raised by twenty pounds!
Riverside Drive address, Tavia, followed by Dorothy, turned and gracefully swayed from the counter, in grand imitation of an elegantly gowned young girl who had just purchased some brass, and had it charged.
On came the bride, tall and slender and leaning gracefully on her father's arm, straight toward the tall mantel in the chimney place, which was lavishly banked with palms and flowers, and the minister began reading the ceremony.
Together they started up the lake, Aunt Winnie skating as gracefully as any of the young girls.
Coming out from behind the palm, the girls were just in time to catch a glimpse of Nat, bowing and sliding gracefully away from his partner.
Her smooth black hair fell gracefully over her ears; she had large gray eyes, whose sweet patience was the most marked characteristic of her face.
Dorothy was charming in a travelling coat of blue, and a small blue hat and veilgracefully tilted on her bright blond hair, a coquettish quill encircling her hat and peeping over her ear.
Constance, stooping gracefully over him, and putting her lips as close as possible to his withered ear.
The discarded bonnet was put on with a heightened color, and the young girl moved rapidly yet gracefully toward the house.
We shall share the fortune, and as to the title, you will wear it more gracefullythan I.
And which I have since adopted on my own intelligent conviction," said Mary, earnestly, losing all timidity in a glow of that generous enthusiasm which sits so gracefully on a gentle woman.
There the plantain waved its leafy crown, the orange shed its rich perfume, and bore its golden fruit aloft upon the desert air, and the light, feathery foliage of the tamarind moved gracefully to the touch of the dallying breeze.
The buttresses of the choir follow the accepted forms of grace and effectiveness, and, while not numerous or remarkable as to size, each springs to a supporting pier gracefully pinnacled and gargoyled.
A lantern is placed at the crossing, supported bygracefully foliaged shafts.
The triforium of the nave is gracefully balustraded, and the choir stands apart from the nave, separated by an elaborate eighteenth century iron grille.
The twin spires rise gracefully for perhaps two hundred and fifty feet, and are after the best manner of the great Gothic builders; of true proportions, and of the dwindling pyramidal form so much approved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gracefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decently; gracefully; graciously; mannerly; properly; quietly; simply; tastefully
