Her lips had the true feminine delicacy of form, her cheeks the lovely roundness and smoothness of youth--but the mouth was too large and firm, the chin too square and massive for her sex and age.
The brightness of the precious metals was in his face, the smoothness of the precious metals was in his voice, as he provided himself with a new supply of words, and resumed the conversation.
Cast iron is better than steel; it is more rigid, and its granulated surface breaks up the smoothness of the wood surface swelling against it.
This introduces a fixed element of frictional resistance which does not decrease with the increasing smoothness of the interior surface of wood pipe, and probably accounts for the higher resistance of the 16-in.
It is a smoothness that is easily disturbed: do not let your hand be the one to do it.
Besides, it is on trifles such as these that the smoothness of "the current of domestic joy" depends.
There is no test of the value of steel beyond its elasticity and temper, and the fineness, equality, and smoothness of its grain.
It is remarkable for the smoothness and softness of its texture, and is hence highly esteemed in temperate climates as an elegant and agreeable article of clothing to be worn next the skin.
Daisy eyed her rough bristling hair, with an odd kind of feeling that it would not be more difficult to comb down into smoothness than the unregulated thoughts of her mind.
Hephzibah looked very much as she did on weekdays; her dress partially covered with a little shawl; her bonnet she had thrown off; and if the hair had been coaxed into any state of smoothness before leaving home, it was all gone now.
It seemed to him now that numberless little details out of the past fitted, with the smoothness of an adjusted puzzle, into the framework of his thought.
She drew it out and began to unfold it, talking all the while with astonishingsmoothness and self-command.
Could anything, even any skin, be better made than that superb skin of hers--that master work of delicacy and strength, of smoothness and color?
Beneath the deceptive smoothness of the surface still surged the turmoil started twenty years before, seething with unsatisfied yearnings, and kept under only by the superb strength of will which she herself at last had broken down.
The usual limitations of camp life were conspicuous by their absence, the fascinations were emphasized by the marveloussmoothness with which everything was conducted.
The uncouthness Of that primal age is gone, And the skin of dazzling smoothness Screens not now a heart of stone.
And ease from shame, and rest from fear There's nothing can dismarble now The smoothness of that limpid brow.
He has approached equally near his model in the sobriety of his composition, in the very difficult use of his middle tints, in his contrasts, in the colour of his fleshes, in smoothness and facility of hand.
The smoothness with which the verses glide, and the elasticity with which they bound, is, to our ears at least, very pleasing.
It may even be questioned, if a single passage of ten lines flowing with uninterrupted smoothness could be singled out from all the thousands that he has left us.
A line, rough in itself, has yet its recommendations; it saves the ear the pain of an irksome monotony, and seems even to add greater smoothness to others.
The great columned mansions of time-stained brick set deep in park-like woodlands; the smoothness of velvet lawns; rippling acres of grain ripening into gold under the June sun; all these things wore on his nerves.
He hated all the orderly smoothness and opulence of this level land where no ridges broke the sky.
If you like correctness and smoothness of all things in the world, there they are for you in Pope.
It seems that unless a process similar to this were adopted the smoothness and beauty of the magnificent decoration could never be attained.
The earliest specimens are distinguished by being transparent, although thick, and by the creamy smoothness of their glaze.
These falls are not very picturesque, but their great height and curtain-like smoothness render them an interesting object.
Not a breath of wind disturbed the glassy smoothness of the water, in which every golden-tinted cloud was mirrored with a fidelity that rendered it difficult to say which was image and which reality.
For roughness is hardness mingled with irregularity, and smoothness is produced by the joint effect of uniformity and density.
The affections of the tongue appear to be caused by contraction and dilation, but they have more of roughness or smoothness than is found in other affections.
One great source of smoothness and rhythm is alliteration.
Destructive is a good word here, but not essential to the sense and not worth the interruption it makes in the smoothness of the sentence.
Her plumed hat shadowed a face which was no longer young in such a way as to hide all the lines possible; while the half-light brought admirably out the rich dark smoothness of the tints, the black lustre of the eyes.
As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the softness and smoothness of his numbers, it is proper to consider those minute particulars to which a versifier must attend.
He certainly very much excelled in smoothness most of the writers who were living when his poetry commenced.
The imitator ought therefore to have adopted what he found, and to have added what was wanting; to have preserved a constant return of the same numbers, and to have supplied smoothness of transition and continuity of thought.
He began watching the shore closely, and it was not long before he made out the white smoothness of a sandbar on their right.
Whatever tends to promote the general health and to increase the bulk of the body, and particularly the disposition of fat in the cellular tissues, also tends to remove them and to increase the smoothness and beauty of the skin.
The perfume may be altered to suit you, or you may add any handkerchief extract, but don't omit the benzoin, for that is what gives permanence to the perfume and softness and smoothness to the skin.
Masuccio never reached the Latinistic smoothnessof his model; and while he wrote Italian, his language was far from being Tuscan.
When his style attained perfection in the Decameron, it had lost the pedantry of his first manner, and combined the brevity of the best contemporary writers with rhetorical smoothness and intricacy.
Dante's song might be likened to a florin fresh from the mint; the popular ditty to the same coin after it had circulated for a year or two, exchanging something of its sharp lines for the smoothness of currency and usage.
