Their language is the Cingalese; an open and gentle sort of well-vowelled dialect, which soundsprettily and euphoniously enough, like the Malayan language.
THE "MIND THE PAINT" GIRL THE FIRST ACT The scene is a drawing-room, prettily but somewhat showily decorated.
A prettily designed "fitment" runs along the left-hand wall and the further wall, taking in the fireplace and doors as part of its scheme.
Who does not respect the wife whose dinner-table is prettily adorned with flowers even on days when no one but her husband has the honour of dining with her?
Their furniture may be scanty and some of it not very new, but common things can be prettily covered, and the dullest of rooms is set off by the knick-knacks that came in so plentifully among the bridal spoils.
The captain carved the turkey, giving due honour to Mr Cheesacre as he did so; and when he nibbled his celery with his cheese, he was prettily jocose about the richness of the farmyard at Oileymead.
Fronting the top of the staircase there was a smaller room, looking out backwards, very prettily furnished, and much used by Lady Monk when alone.
They played prettily on musical instruments, and were very jolly.
If it were left alone, it was overheard laughing and frolicking, and when it was taken up after, limp as cloth, its hair was found prettily combed, and there were signs that it had been washed and dressed by its unseen playfellows.
The harbour of Villafranca is very prettily situated, surrounded, as it is on the land side, by high hills rising from the water's edge, and beautifully timbered.
The old Mont Cenis road winds prettily up the hill; the snow-clad Alps on the right and left, the great Roche Melon and Roche Michel soaring to the clouds.
It is prettily decorated inside by delicately stained windows, and has a small but fine organ.
Below these words there is very prettily engraved a dove, with an olive branch in her bill.
I don't know if his lodgings were so prettily furnished, and everything, as Mr. Smith's.
Her accent is a little foreign, and very prettily so ; and her emphasis has that sort of changeability, which gives an interest to everything she utters.
Let it come, she cannot frown me off on't: How prettily it wooes me to come nearer?
On the other side of young Peter was a girl no older than Rebecca Mary, and she was so prettily and smartly clothed that she made Rebecca Mary feel like Cousin Susan's kitchen curtains, old and ragged.
She wondered why this should be such a great day, but as he did not tell her she did not ask but prettily offered her best wishes.
Go and speak prettily to Miss Devon, my pets, for she is coming to play with you, and you must mind what she says," commanded mamma.
After a minute or two Veronica came over to me; she had let her hair down, and it fell prettily on her shoulders.
She was prettily formed, and was exceedingly admired and applauded by us all.
The little place, which consists of only a few poor huts, is prettily situated, surrounded as it is by wooded hillocks on a plateau of sand fifty feet above the reed-bordered river.
Often, about the same spots where the male fern flourishes, the Shield Fern displays its fronds, larger and broader, but fewer in number, and prettily toothed along their edges.
Then she would come to life, as though waking from sleep, and step down prettily to a special tune.
The latter is the better stopping-place, though the former is very prettily situated, on the bank of the Nam Nan, among very fine clumps of bamboo and a great many banana palms and sugar-cane plantations.
The entrance to this was in its day very prettily panelled and gilded; now, alas!
The reeds, by being put over the fire, are often veryprettily marked.
It is prettily varied in color, but lacks the odor of the Clove Pink.
The Forget-me-not is another low-growing perennial which may prettilycarpet the bare spots between the taller occupants of the border.
The devil must really have been in me to make me take the trouble to have my hair so prettily frizzled.
She implored me prettilynot to deny her this little kindness.
This employed him half a minute, and then he gave up the unequal contest, and went and took his place beside Isabel, who sat prettily wrapped in her shawl, perfectly content.
Mrs Douglas had a hard time, with her two little girls, who were still better and more prettily dressed than any other children in Bourke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prettily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
