Loveliness

Which every Turk and Arab wight in loveliness outvies: ❋ Unknown (2006)

Al – Fazl and said to him, “I wish to have a slave-girl of passing beauty, perfect in loveliness, exquisite in symmetry and endowed with all praiseworthy gifts.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Moreover, he presented to him three hundred male white slaves and the like number of concubines, in loveliness like moons, and three hundred Abyssinian577 slave-girls, beside five hundred mules laden with treasure and sheep and oxen and buffaloes and bulls and other cattle beyond count; and he commanded all his Wazirs and Emirs and Grandees and Notables and ❋ Unknown (2006)

And (the relator continueth) as for Kanmakan, he became unique in loveliness and excelling in perfection no less; none could even him in qualities as in seemliness and the sheen of velour between his eyes was espied, testifying for him while against him it never testified. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The broker rejoiced at this and brought her up to Nur al-Din, and she considered him straitly and found him like the full moon, perfect in loveliness and a model of fine stature and symmetric grace, even as saith of him one of his describers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

My favours are the longing of the lover and the delight of the desirer; for I am goodly of shape, sweet of smile and graceful as the bending willow-wand or the rattan-cane375 or the stalk of the basil-plant; nor is there any can compare with me in loveliness, even as saith one of me, ❋ Unknown (2006)

I've been posting some art here for the purpose of emphasizing how much loveliness is needed at home -- especially at home. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She grew, under his eye, in loveliness and refinement both of intellect and heart. ❋ Unknown (2002)

If one but gazes closely into a tiny flower of the pale blue Forget-me-not, what a chapter of loveliness is there! ❋ Unknown (1894)

Ellery Davenport now seems to us as a distant dream of another life, recalled chiefly by the beauty of his daughter, whose growing loveliness is the principal ornament of our home. ❋ Unknown (1869)

And so Hugh was changed too; not in loveliness of character and demeanour, nor even much in the always gentle and tender expression of countenance; but the animal spirits and frame, that should have had all the strong cherishing and bracing, that affection and wisdom together could have applied, had been left to wear themselves out under trials his father had shrunk from, and other trials his father had made. ❋ Unknown (1854)

'Indeed, Sir, – and pray believe me, I do not mean to repine I have not the beauty of Indiana; I know and have always heard her loveliness is beyond all comparison. ❋ Unknown (1796)

That deserving is the quality which we call "loveliness" -- (we ought to have an opposite word, hateliness, to be said of the things which deserve to be hated); and it is not an indifferent nor optional thing whether we love this or that; but it is just the vital function of all our being. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

That deserving is the quality which we call 'loveliness' -- (we ought to have an opposite word, hateliness, to be said of the things which deserve to be hated); and it is not an indifferent nor optional thing whether we love this or that; but it is just the vital function of all our being. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

It’s got a certain loveliness, all right, but the repetitive capitalizations seemed gimmicky to me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The early morning light shed a soft glow on Irene’s face, revealing an expression of loveliness, peace, and deep delight. ❋ Robin Jones Gunn (2010)