"Choicely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have not been tried by me, but told me by a friend of mine, that pretended to do me a courtesy. But if this direction to catch a pike thus do you no good, yet I am certain this direction how to roast him when he is caught is choicely good—'" ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... and its white-stockinged footman—who swung instantly to earth as the vehicle stopped—its dainty occupant seemed to Climene a princess out of a fairy-tale. And this princess leaned forward, with eyes aglow and cheeks aflush, stretching out a choicely gloved hand to Scaramouche. ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... try what your fortune is. The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms, And temper clay with blood of Englishmen. To Ireland will you lead a band of men, Collected choicely, from each county some, And try your ...
— King Henry VI, Second Part • William Shakespeare [Rolfe edition]
... unless I'm wrong, Voices well trained in chorus pealing? Certes, most choicely here must song Re-echo from this ...
— Faust Part 1 • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... very choicely come," he cried, holding out both hands to La Boulaye. "You shall embrace our happy Hercules yonder, and wish him joy of the wedded life he has the audacity to exploit." Then, as he espied the crimson ridge across the secretary's countenance, ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... may be a long cast, but the mind of one-and-twenty takes it at a bound. My eye went questing, fell on many a blushing maid and beaming matron, at last singled out my heart's desire. She was teaching a Highland dance to a graceful cavalier in white silk breeches, flowered satin waistcoat, and most choicely powdered periwig, fresh from the friseur. His dainty muff and exquisite clouded cane depended from a silken loop to proclaim him the man of fashion. Something characteristic in his easy manner, though I saw ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... Imperial Babel, had the advantage of being understood by all the conquered nations. In the provinces, this supreme art of gesticulation, "these talking fingers, these loquacious hands, this voluble silence, this unspoken explanation," as was once choicely said, were serviceable in advancing the great work of Roman unity. "The substitution of ballet pantomimes for comedy and tragedy resulted in causing the old masterpieces to be neglected, thereby enfeebling the practice of the national idioms and seconding the propagation, if not of the language, ...
— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier
... the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Slippers lined choicely for the cold, With ...
— The Youth of Jefferson - A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 • Anonymous |
