Lexicographical Neighbors of Artlessnesses
Literary usage of Artlessnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"She smiled (and her smile was one of her strong points) whenever he spoke to her;
she went through all her little artlessnesses and set forth all her little ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... thereby shewing, perhaps even fantastically, and partly in acquiescence with
the fashion of the times, how dear to him were the artlessnesses of nature. ..."
3. On the Wing: Rambling Notes of a Trip to the Pacific by Mary Elizabeth Blake (1883)
"... the mysteries of the nail toilet, the artful artlessnesses of neck trimmings,
the many- buttoned boots, the crinoline and pull-backs ; think of the slow ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1877)
"... Miss Aurora, at forty-five, and five years her sister's junior, full of the
pretty coquetries, the sweet young playful artlessnesses of eighteen—as was ..."
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