The amiable qualities of his writings, nay, their pleasing errors, were skilfully made the most of.
One would suppose that this pleasing light style would tire us at last; but it does not: we feel that it is not mere words and language, but that it springs and flows like life-blood from the heart.
I think our troubles increase fast: how unlucky, that this dispute should happen at the very crisis of your arrival;--an event which we fondly expected would be attended with the most pleasing circumstances.
I really did not--I wish I had seen such a pleasing proof of your sensibility.
Mr. Smyth has left a pleasing impression on the minds of all those who met him, and I had every reason to confirm me in the favourable opinion which I had formed of him at our first meeting.
Sismondi has left a pleasing impression on my mind.
She had met Harrison Ashley more than once before, and, though she did not say so, had evidently conceived an admiration for him which made her especially desirous of attracting and pleasing him.
This, because at that very instant wheels were heard in front, also a jangle of voices, in some controversy about fares, which promised anything but a pleasing addition to the already none too desirable company.
Every good and pleasing thing that money can purchase is at your command.
But in the midst of it he could not help casting a thought to a less pleasing subject--the Dares.
This is always crowded with men, who, by the aid of opera glasses, find it a pleasing pastime to watch the movements of the delicate Naiads who crowd the waters.
The country around had rather a pleasing appearance, the shores being partially covered with the evergreen, and deciduous-leaved beech, and a few stunted cypress-trees.
She was neither pretty, nor quick in understanding, nor remarkably pleasing in manners.
Much has been written about his less pleasing idiosyncrasies, and no writer has been called more frequently to account for deficiencies.
Here is a little winter's sketch:-- "The wonderful purity of Nature at this season is a mostpleasing fact.
But he did not lack self-assurance, and his frank satisfaction with the results of his experiment was not altogether pleasing to those who had scant sympathy with his passion for the Earth.
None of the gentlemen were prepared to deny that it was a quaint and pleasing title.
At all times there was delight in the girl's beauty, pride in the comment and wonder of the town, self-congratulation and the pleasing knowledge that wisdom is vindicated of its children.
Young Mr. Lee in many a slight and pleasing set of verses addressed her as Sylvia, but to the community at large she was Darden's Audrey, and an enigma greater than the Sphinx.
A soft and pleasing indolence, born of the afternoon, the sunlight, and the red wine, came to dwell in the valley.
He offered up his mind a willing sacrifice to the pleasing though deadly poison, and permitted his soul to be ravished by the wild delirium of his infatuated love.
In pleasing dreams, and lose myself in love, When ev'ry moment Cato's life's at stake?
So back came Oncle Jazon with his pleasing report, much disappointed that he had not been able to stir up some sort of trouble.
He was welcomed by the villagers, and at once made himself very pleasing to them by adapting himself to their ways and entering heartily into their social activities.
One looks about at the solid and pleasing architectural effect of all these buildings with no small degree of surprise.
In short its hills, forests, and plains afford a pleasing variety of scenery, while its rich pastures invite the stock-breeder to reap a goodly harvest in the easiest and most profitable manner.
It is written in a graceful, fluent, and attractive style, and with an easy liveliness that makes it peculiarly pleasing in the perusal.
To us there is a pleasing revelation in these trees and plants, however simple they may be in themselves.
As we have elsewhere intimated, the daughters of some of the unions between whites and natives are very pretty and intelligent, having received partial education and acquired some pleasing accomplishments.
Nestling among the mounds of rock-work were succulent plants, orchids, cacti, ferns, and other pleasing forms of delicate vegetation.
But his brown hair, blue eyes, and musical voice gave a pleasing impression.
His father was a Baptist clergyman, of fine voice and pleasing manner of speaking.
Nature had given him a pleasing face which men trusted.
Giuliano; all which figures, his caprice not being yet satisfied, and the German manner stillpleasing him, are not very different from those that he executed at the Certosa.
The pleasing style in which these sketches are written, the plans taken to secure accuracy, and the information conveyed, combine to give them great value and interest.
The Augustan poetry and Augustan science attained, under similar circumstances, to a similar important and pleasing development with that attained by the Hellenistic at the court of the Pergamenes and the earlier Ptolemies.
There is a kind of mellow and subdued heroic light cast over the final defeat of this great North American horse thief, which is in perfectly pleasing harniony with the New England idea of the noble unlettered relic of a defunct race.
Parties who have become cloyed with the spicy fragrance of "Fifteen" might find pleasing diversion in the foregoing sentence.
Snuffing the candle with my fingers in a graceful andpleasing style, and wiping the black off on my pants, I said: "Gentlemen of the Convention: In your selection of a chairman I detect at once your mental acumen and intelligent foresight.
It may be safely said that it is largely the cause of the pleasing contrast which exists between the changes of administration in the United States and those in the other American republics.
