"Winningly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her bribes, and displaying them to advantage on a tray of gold, lays the written bid on the top; or with a shrewd device of the maternal instinct, so fertile in pretty tricks of artfulness, places it in the hands of a pet child, who is taught to present it winningly as the king descends to his midday meal. The attention of his Majesty is attracted by the display of showy toys; he deigns to inquire as to the donors; the "sealed proposals" are respectfully, and doubtless with more or ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... downstairs again. A cautious peep into the office showed Clara and Hard in conversation with Sam Penhallow. She glided into the dining-room where she found the good-looking Mabel finishing the clearing off of the tables. Polly looked winningly into the tall ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... my sneers he was not to be put off. He talked and coaxed so winningly that in the end—albeit I am a man not easily turned from the course he has set himself—the affectionate pleading in his fresh young voice and the affectionate look in his dark eyes won me ...
— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini
... Wondering so winningly in several kinds of oceans is the reason that makes red so regular and enthusiastic. The reason that there is more snips are the same shining very colored rid of ...
— Tender Buttons - Objects—Food—Rooms • Gertrude Stein
... however, showed no further melancholy. She was full of admiration for the beauty of the frosty morning, the trees touched with rime, the browns and purples of the distant woods. She spoke shyly, but winningly, of the comfort of her room, and the thoughtfulness with which Miss Mallory had arranged it; she could not say enough of the picturesqueness of the house. Yet there was nothing fulsome in her praise. She had the gift which ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... full flow rolled forth undiminished, going to its source as surely as we were bound to arrive at our destination. We discovered many points of beauty all along the way which were not blotted out by rain or cloud, and which shone freshly and winningly under the touch of the sun that peeped from behind ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... the album along for the Captain's signature. "And write something, too, won't you? Something specially for me," she had begged winningly. ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... intently was our heroine engaged with her letter, that his approach was unnoticed, though it had now been a long time that the ear of Eve had learned to know his tread, and her heart to beat at its welcome sound. Perhaps a beautiful woman is never so winningly lovely as when, in her neat morning attire, she seems fresh and sweet as the new-born day. Eve had paid a little more attention to her toilette than usual even, admitting just enough of a properly selected jewelry, a style of ornament, ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... the world was before us, and seldom has it shone out beneath the gaze of youth and inexperience more winningly than it did under the influence of that delicious day. The rain of the preceding night, and of the early part of the morning, had given to herb and tree a fresher and a fairer green. The fallows wore no longer a parched-up ...
— Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II • G. R. Gleig
... own countryfolk Confucius wore a homely look, like one who has no word to say. In the ancestral temple and at court his speech was full, but cautious. At court he talked frankly to men of low rank, winningly to men of high rank. In the Marquis's presence he looked ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... a winningly modulated voice, and, at the same instant, he sprang from his camp-chair, ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... good-bye; I want to be with Mike. But you'll not forget me, you'll come and see me one of these days?" And she spoke so winningly that the boy hardly perceived that he was dismissed. Mike and ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
... moment and then said, winningly, "And do you think you could drive me with old Bill as far as ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... him." Not that he had grown up particularly incapable or helpless; it might rather have been due to a certain appealing gentleness of bearing, something that was the resultant of a half-shy manner, expanding into boyish confidence winningly; a shortish, slender figure, scarcely robust; eager, friendly brown eyes behind his glasses; and a keen desire to be liked. It might be seen, in the present sharp nervous play of emotion over his face, how utterly he was ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... advanced, smiling; a polka was being played at the moment, and he playfully contorted his figure and balanced his head from side to side in time with the tune, while with his right forefinger he beckoned winningly to Miss Valeyon to join him in the dance. Bressant gave an involuntary shudder of disgust; it seemed to him a grisly caricature of the inspiration he himself had felt at the beginning of the evening. But Cornelia was equal ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... Ma'amselle," he said winningly, "and who would not risk its turning? For me,—I looked upon your face but now, and behold! I must give you something, and this was ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe |
