The house was a large, square stone building, with none of the prettinesses of modern country-houses about it.
There were frills to it, and a certain attempt at prettinesses had been made; but then the attempt had been made so long ago, and the frills were so ignorant of starch and all frillish propensities, that it hardly could pretend to decency.
As he falls down into Italy, looking with listless, unseeing eyes at all the prettinesses of the Ticino, he comes upon another Robinson, and there is a chance for him.
She lapses first into indifference, and from indifference to aversion; till at last she takes an absolute pride in the absence of those little prettinesses which she had at first been determined to maintain so stoutly.
Not quite so pure as the former, it is free from the obvious striving after effect in the latter, and from the slightly affected prettinesses well illustrated here in the group of Silenus with the infant Bacchus.
Now we shall see how nicely all Bell's prettinesses will fit into the corners!
I saw in a magazine the other day that the ladies who give a great many lunches are always wishing to find new little prettinesses for their tables.
There never is anybody at Hogglestock to stick up wreaths, or do anything for the prettinesses of life.
Grace's life had hitherto been so destitute of thoseprettinesses and softnesses, which can hardly be had without money though money alone will not purchase them, that it seemed to her now that the heavens rained graciousness upon her.
The few cosy articles with which the late tenants had changed its character had been removed; the ornaments and prettinesses were all gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prettinesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
