Lexicographical Neighbors of Gracefulnesses
Literary usage of Gracefulnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"... kicking gracefulnesses." He can only express his contempt for the artist in
exclamation points, that favorite form of literary imprecation. ..."
2. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1857)
"And, then, look at Raphael's kicking gracefulnesses. \ Luther had no dislike of
religious art on principle. Even the stove in his chamber was wrought with ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Was it not Marion who was so severe on all my little gracefulnesses? Well, you
need not answer if you don't like. I'll not press my question ; but own, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and wherever two or three are gathered together, there are formed modes of
existing together, habitudes, observances, nay gracefulnesses, joys ! ..."
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