The former winsomeness of her lips was still traceable in the sorrowed curves of her now ravaged mouth.
Nevertheless, she managed to put a great deal of winsomeness and roguishness into the rôle of the cherub.
It is a wonderful likeness, and yet I should say that it does not half express the winsomeness of your countenance.
A winsomeness in us that will win men to us and through us to the Master.
You remember, He used to move among men after the resurrection, and while they would feel the gentle winsomeness of His presence and talk, they did not recognize Him.
A grotesque figure, indeed, and lacking altogether in that pathetic, infantile winsomeness which makes even little pigs attractive.
It was a pathetically awkward, unlovely little figure, not yet advanced to that youngling winsomeness which is the heritage, to some degree and at some period, of the infancy of all the kindreds that breathe upon the earth.
The young woman with the over-firm mouth drew back as the airman and his companion passed her table, but her eyes clung to the French girl's face as though its winsomeness and purity held the answer to her troubles.
We demand that virtue be winsome and that inclination be dignified, and where winsomeness and dignity are present in harmonious equipoise in the same person, there the expression of humanity is complete.
Lofty seriousness and the light gracious winsomeness of a pure and open soul were always present in Schiller's conversation; in listening to him one walked as among the changeless stars of heaven and the flowers of the earth.
So winsomeness is something distinct from beauty; something transferable, movable.
We hear the winsomeness of a gentle wooing voice a-calling, and instinctively answer to it.
And that unity of love dominating all is irresistible to the outer crowd, in the winsomeness of its wooing.
The gentle winsomeness of the wooing stands out appealingly as one goes through those fragments of teaching talks running throughout.
And in seeing the faithfulness and winsomeness of His power, see His wooing.
They all so change, however, that they pass away, and suddenly come again and return to that same beauty and to the same winsomeness for the children of men, in which they were before Adam sinned.
I do not suppose that the life there shall be without reason, any more than it is here in children; in that case there would be too little winsomeness in that life.
The nearer we come to fellowship with Him in the daily touch and spirit the more freely can He reach out His own great winsomeness through us, out to His dear world.
The very winsomeness of the sacrifice spirit has led men to the seeking of sacrifice.
The wondrous Spirit of God works through our leadership to reveal Jesus to men in all His winsomeness and power.
His ownwinsomeness breathes out of that life constantly.
There is a strange winsomeness about sacrifice, peculiar to itself, and peculiarly strong in its drawing power.
As we are absorbed in Jesus, and in our fellows, the winsomeness that is native to us shines out most attractively.
All the native winsomeness of man and all the divine winsomeness of God combine and blend in Him.
His Roman judge felt the strange winsomeness of His presence and speech, though lacking in the courage to follow his convictions regarding Him.
Whenever you meet a man or woman with that fine winsomeness of spirit that can't be analyzed, but only felt, you may know that there's been some of this sort of sharp cutting within.
Winsomeness of presence is greatest and sweetest when we are wholly unconscious that there is such a thing about us.
The winsomeness of his ways and the courtliness of his bearing survived for many months the collapse of his memory and the loss of his powers of speech.
His winsomeness drew to him the noblest youths and fairest maidens of Assisi.
They are full of life, intelligence, sympathy; they have fascination of manner, winsomeness of mood, grace of bearing.
His women, particularly, are fine in life-like pose and winsomeness of mood.
If what has come to me has gotten out of me into these pages, there will be found a dominant note of sweetest music--the winsomeness of God in Jesus.
Then with a rare graciousness and winsomeness that wins all hearts, and fastens every eye upon Himself, He begins talking of the fulfilment of that word in Himself.
Into her face had come a look of dismay as Bee read what her father had said of the "winsomeness of the picture.
I can not resist the winsomeness of your picture, so I am coming back to get acquainted with you, and perhaps we shall discover a mutual companionship and affection.
