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Example sentences for "lovely"

Lexicographically close words:
lovelight; lovelily; loveliness; lovelinesses; lovelorn; lovelye; lovemaking; loven; lover; lovere
  1. What did you want to give that beggar your lovely necklace for?

  2. How can I, sitting between two such lovely ladies, find time or power to salute an absent one, howsoever fair?

  3. The tall girl noted the sun and shadow which made this and all else lovely on this fair afternoon.

  4. His lightest wish was her law; she nodded gratefully to Barbara, who disappeared, while Graham told her once more how lovely she was that night.

  5. I assure you that to my lovely Friend you are indebted for many of your best songs of mine.

  6. We part--but by these precious drops That fill thy lovely eyes!

  7. Everything looked so lovely as I began to clear the foot hills of Nulla Mountain.

  8. How all the lovely colours are fading away.

  9. Think of a lovely pendant, a cross all brilliants, and a brooch to match, my dear girl.

  10. Her hair was twisted up in a knot behind; but even that didn't hide the lovely colour nor what a lot there was of it.

  11. No, let me nurse and take care of him," said the lovely girl, blushing as she spoke.

  12. The party now strayed onward from hall to hall of that rich gallery, pausing here and there, to look at the multitude of noble and lovely shapes, which have been dug up out of the deep grave in which old Rome lies buried.

  13. They say that monstrous deformities sprout out of fiends, who once were lovely angels.

  14. Not even descent from that strange Hindu remnant of the lovely island of Lombok, just east of Java (a theory which I had also turned over in my mind), quite satisfied on both these scores.

  15. The mill was a picturesque old ruin, with its mossy water-wheel, crumbling roof and sprawling pier, and I made mental note of the lovely little cove as a place well worth returning to with paintbox and easel when opportunity offered.

  16. The spectrum of the comet came out beautifully--a long bar of color crossed with a lovely ruling of thin dark and bright lines, the sight of which elicited from us an exclamation of satisfaction.

  17. Do you remember your first waltz with the lovely woman whom you had longed like a man but feared like a boy to touch--even so much as the hem of her garment?

  18. Yet so well had it been performed, so fair and lovely did that gentle girl look, as she entered the drawing-room, that every eye was fixed on her in admiration.

  19. It was a soft and lovely evening; her couch, at her own request, had been drawn to the open window, and the dying girl looked forth on the beautiful scene beneath.

  20. Lilla had never seen and never known the lovely being whose last home she thus affectionately tended.

  21. Why are you not gone out, dearest mother, this lovely evening?

  22. Marcella had no fairy-tales, but she spun a whole cycle for herself around the lovely Princess who came to seem to her before long her own particular property.

  23. Everything about her at this moment was divine and lovely to him; all the qualities of her rich uneven youth which she had shown in their short intercourse--her rashness, her impulsiveness, her generosity.

  24. The lovely lines ran dirge-like in his head, as he sat, sunk in grief, beside his friend.

  25. What with the lovely architecture of the room itself, its size, its books and old portraits, and the signs it bore of simple yet refined use, it would have been difficult to find a gentler, mellower place.

  26. They're too lovely for anything," said Miss Leeson, smiling in exactly the way the angels do.

  27. The threadbare space in the rug in front of the dresser told that lovely woman had marched in the throng.

  28. Ayesha was lovely and imperious, with a luxurious but shrewd nature, and her counsel was always sought by Mahomet.

  29. Oh, you must come to the States, and we'll give you just a lovely time.

  30. Get up on the rocks presently, and you'll see a lovely sight.

  31. How lovely if the Prince should like her as did her Princess.

  32. I'm going to paint such a lovely picture of you this summer, dear," she said, studying his face fondly.

  33. You can take a chair, Sylvia, but I shall have to turn my back to that lovely fire.

  34. These adorned the sloping bank, interspersed with rock, and turned the blue depths to green as they leaned toward the water as if in the effort to catch their own lovely reflections.

  35. Some day you must sing that lovely song to me, again, for I think I would like very much to know just what my soul's desire is.

  36. I haven't the right to say it yet, but it is so lovely that I would like you to hear it.

  37. That is a charming song and you have lovely voice, but would you mind telling me who you are, where you have come from and how you happen to be so at home in a room in our house?

  38. It was on a lovely June morning that Tattine made the first of her unwelcome discoveries.

  39. There are giant popes of bronze, allegorical figures and angels of equivocal character wearing the beauty of lovely girls, of passion-compelling women with the thighs and the breasts of pagan goddesses!

  40. The Italy of yesterday, so lovely and so sleepy, instinct with a dying grace, charming one even in her drowsiness, and retaining so much mystery in the fathomless depths of her black, passionate eyes!

  41. Pierre had lingered there for long hours; the twilight was coming on, and once again he witnessed a lovely sunset.

  42. Centaurs gallop by carrying lovely girls, faint with rapture, on their steaming haunches.

  43. In the morning the sky was cloudless, and changed from one lovely colour to the other, until the sun rose to give it its bright blue and paint the shore in every tint.

  44. It was a bright morning when we entered the lovely Graciosa Bay on Nitendi.

  45. A lovely creek winds through reeds, reflecting the bright sand and the bushes on its banks.

  46. Again and again I seemed to see the living originals of some classical picture, and more and more my soul succumbed to the intoxicating charm of the lovely island.

  47. Its situation is not more picturesque than others, but the place has been made so attractive that one can hardly imagine a more lovely and restful sight.

  48. The sea has penetrated into the interior of the crater, forming a lovely bay, so that ships now lie at anchor where formerly the lava boiled and roared.

  49. When darkness veils His lovely face I trust in His unchanging grace, In every high and stormy gale My anchor holds within the veil.

  50. Taylor was a brave and lovely Christian--and his hymn is as sweet as his life.

  51. Ah, and she was beautiful and lovely as one of the Graces.

  52. But how, Kate, you tremble, and the lovely smile has vanished from your countenance!

  53. Gammer Gurton has saved me, and King Henry will not have the satisfaction of seeing me whipped by those most virtuous and most lovely ladies of his court.

  54. A loud knock interrupted her; and in the hastily opened door now appeared the lovely form of the queen.

  55. Near him was seen the young queen, whose beautiful and lovely face was turned in anxious expectation toward the king, in whose stern and rigid features she sought to read the development of this scene.

  56. She was altogether a charming and lovely apparition, full of nobleness and grace, full of fire and energy; and yet, in spite of her youthfulness, not wanting in a certain grandeur and dignity.

  57. So the fair and lovely Anne Boleyn must lay her head upon the block.

  58. But they had a lovely lot of Easter eggs, anyhow, ready for the children, and so Sammie didn't mind much.

  59. Just as the horrid creature was about to take those lovely Easter eggs out of the basket and eat them up, who should come flying through the woods but Mrs. Cluck-Cluck, the fairy hen!

  60. But though gone from my sight, she passed not out of my memory; ever since had I been dreaming of that lovely apparition.

  61. That piece of ground is a favourite spot with me; it is a lovely place--I often go there.

  62. Lovely Maumee, you have kept your promise.

  63. But it was a lovely question: Where does that leave Kenneth J.

  64. It was suddenly very obvious that the lovely theory he had worked out for Mike's disappearance wasn't true in the least.

  65. Below these features, she had a straight lovely nose and a pair of lips which Malone immediately classified as Kissable.

  66. And the contrast between him and his lovely daughter would be more and more strongly felt as purchase and capture ceased to be serious methods of bride-winning.

  67. He presently came into a lovely garden; and there a lady came, and, inviting him to eat, offered to take him as gardener.

  68. A certain man did so one night; and in the morning he found a young and lovely maiden in the room.

  69. His daughter wept upon her father's grave, and her tears, as they touched the earth, became lovely blue flowers.

  70. She touches her own eyes with the unguent kept for anointing the eyes of her master's little boy, and in consequence catches her master kissing a lovely lady.

  71. One of these relates the marriage of Henno With-the-Teeth, who found a lovely maiden in a grove on the coast of Normandy.

  72. A young and lovely maiden belonging to that race visited the tree, and was unlucky enough to touch one of the flowers and to cause it to drop.

  73. He admired two lovely blossoms which she had, but said he had many finer in his garden: would she not go with him?

  74. With dance and music, in intercourse with wise men and lovely women, his days passed away.

  75. An Annamite legend relates that a woodcutter found some fairies bathing at a lovely fountain.

  76. On entering the room the next day, he was surprised to find a lovely lady, who announced herself as a Peri, and thanked him for delivering her the day before from her enemy, the black snake.

  77. Providentially no bones were broken but there were two lovely women and one man who needed no help of mine.

  78. This little card on which is traced The image of a lovely rose, Was given me, by one who shared My brightest joys, my deepest woes.

  79. It is laid off in good order, and ornamented with trees, shrubs, and flowers--a lovely place in which to rest.

  80. On the morrow, our people aided in giving fitting burial to the lovely Indian girl, whose life had been sacrificed to the demands of a brutal custom.

  81. I know that in Old England there are many lovely homes, Where wealth and pleasure linger, and sorrow seldom comes.

  82. It was a pleasant walk, the road passing through a lovely country, clothed in its spring robes of green.

  83. They and the lovely sego lilies should ever be remembered, protected, and sacredly cherished by the children of the Latter-day Saints.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lovely face; lovely girl; lovely lady; lovely little; lovely maid; lovely maiden; lovely morning; lovely rose; lovely woman