Lexicographical Neighbors of Prettinesses
Literary usage of Prettinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Home by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1850)
"I acknowledge nothing but the prettinesses. To Henry Beckworth himself I refer
the incredulous, and if they do not recognise my story in his, I cannot help ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1865)
"At present the question is simply between art and prettinesses. CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
AND DECORATION. Br REV. ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1816)
"... are frequently turgid and bombastic; and those who take a lower aim at mere
prettinesses, run into the contrary extreme, and produce what is petty and ..."
4. The Attitude of the Greek Tragedians Toward Nature by Henry Rushton Fairclough (1897)
"There are none of the conventional prettinesses of the 18th century ; none of
the refined distinctions of our modern miniature word- painters. ..."
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