They don't like me because I can't be always tidy and what they call prettily behaved, and because I hate walking on the parade and being stuck up and unnatural, and they don't like me because I am not pretty, and because I am thin and don't look, as mamma says, a credit to her; but it is not that so much as because of Robert. ❋ Unknown (1867)
She used the name prettily, half shyly, with one of her luminous, friendly looks. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)
And the numskulls will call you a 'rare powerful rousin' preacher '-- isn't that the way they go on? and when you die -- for die you must, most unfortunately -- they will give you a three-cornered block of granite (if they can make up their minds to part with the necessary bawbees) with your name prettily engraved thereon. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
a bottle-bird's nest, hanging very prettily from the branch of the prickly mimosa. ❋ Unknown (1885)
Margot prettily attired, a pleasure in which the young lady herself fully concurred. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
Cambridge, and a couple of apothecarys; these maintaining chymistry against them Galenicall physique; and the truth is, one of the apothecarys whom they charged most, did speak very prettily, that is, his language and sense good, though perhaps he might not be so knowing a physician as to offer to contest with them. ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)
Academia. edu largely aggregates information, albeit very prettily, which is already available through online journals, academic mailing lists and databases such as ❋ Rob Meiklejohn (2010)
Pollyooly was pleased that he should have a playmate of his own age; the little girl's nurse, observing that they were dressed as other children and that Pollyooly spoke "prettily," and was inclined to be uncommonly haughty with her, assented to the acquaintance. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)
She would yawn, as she believed "prettily," but certainly noisily; or she would wonder "how time was going," and of course her twenty-guinea watch never went, or if it was going was seldom within one hour of the actual time. ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)
Mr. YANG: Well, you know, certainly among Asian-Americans, we've seen this show before and it doesn't end prettily. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lately I have been pairing a bit of lace with everything from rugged French industrial moving blankets to prettily patterned Peruvian bedspreads. ❋ Sara Ruffin Costello (2012)
I am sure it meant the world to the bride you dressed up for to have her only guest dressed so prettily. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You might even have been puzzled, at the end, about why Loge, the god of fire, got booed, since the singer who played him, Richard Croft, sang particularly prettily. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)
The lines of her face make her look very serious, but she smiles prettily when Bailey says, Mom, this is Ella, my friend from school. ❋ Kekla Magoon (2011)
I've noticed a few women friends starting to dress very prettily and femininely, wearing more skirts and makeup in prettier (less drab) colors. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Freda started, and she did it prettily, delighting him as his fellows have ever been delighted by their womankind. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One was blown to pieces in the air, the expedite exploding, and the shock of it disrupted the second balloon, which fell prettily into the remaining fortress. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A bit … And then he flutters his hands like a dying bird, and purses his lips, prettily. ❋ Eva Wiseman (2010)
Forbes plays Mitch rolls off the tongue more easily, but not as prettily, as Pernille Larsen, the mother of Rosie Larsen, a high school student who has been mysteriously killed. ❋ Unknown (2011)
You realized the softness, the melting hips and the prettily nodding heads were all of a piece with this iron firmness. ❋ Unknown (2011)
[person a] - she was prettily [dressed]
[person b] - is prettily even a word? ❋ Vulvasker (2009)
"All of this is most Prettily done, with [faeries], [rainbows and unicorns] adorning the [ceiling]." ❋ SnortsnLadders (2010)
