Lexicographical Neighbors of Daintinesses
Literary usage of Daintinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"the broad smooth river as a canvas, and painted on it every imaginable dream of
color, from the mottled daintinesses and delicacies of the opal, ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"... or a liveried groom, and whose first comments on the daintinesses of fashion
are far more racy than anything which fashion can say for itself. ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"imaginable dream of color, from the mottled daintinesses and delicacies of the
opal, all the way up, through cumulative intensities, to blinding purple and ..."
4. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1904)
"... rather than for any small daintinesses or formalities. His ear, true as it
was, was attuned to great and simple melodies, rather than to any complicated ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... easy fashion about Judith's frank and honest (nudities, and her good-hearted
ways, and the pretty daintinesses of her coaxing when she was so inclined. ..."
6. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"Another conspicuous fault of Mr. Lowell's poetry is the perpetual presence of
the daintinesses and prettinesses of expression. His thoughts are overdressed. ..."
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