"Pinkness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the pleasant pinkness of the sunset, Elsie was led out on to the palace steps, where the King made a speech and said what a heroine she was, and how like Joan of Arc. And the crows who had gathered from all parts of ...
— The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... that made her altogether less like a woman than an occasion of public rejoicing. Even her large blue eyes projected, her chin and brows and nose all seemed racing up to the front of her as if excited by the clarion notes of her abundant voice, and the pinkness of her complexion was as exuberant as her manners. Exuberance—it was her word. She had evidently been a big, bouncing, bright gaminesque girl at fifteen, and very amusing and very much admired; she had liked the role and she had not so much grown older ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... over the thick carpets, and went into the room it had been his pleasure to furnish and decorate as his wife's boudoir. Its seashell pinkness was merged in darkness, faintly striped by the grey dawn-glimmer, but the door of the bedroom that opened from it was ajar. Light edged the heavy fold of the portiere curtain and made a pool upon ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... managed to get the amulet away without too much difficulty, and the Hare's swiftness quickly took him back to the palace. When the princess, who was watching from the tower window, saw the rosy light of the amulet in the distance, pinkness came back to her cheeks, and her eyes shone like stars, and she waved her lily hand to Robin ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... little life— "Look in my eyes and read them honestly." He laugh'd till all the isles and forests laugh'd. "O simple child! what may the forest flames "See in the woodland ponds but their own fires? "And have you, Katie, neither fears nor doubts?" She, with the flow'r soft pinkness of her palm Cover'd her sudden tears, then quickly said: "Fears—never doubts, for true love never doubts." Then Alfred paus'd a space, as one who holds A white doe by the throat and searches for The blade to slay her. "This your answer still— "You doubt not—doubt not this far love of yours, ...
— Old Spookses' Pass • Isabella Valancy Crawford
... spoke, surely I wasn't mistaken in thinking that for an agitating minute the pinkness of Pogson's large countenance sickly ebbed and blanched. And while my attention was still engaged by this disquieting phenomenon, I became aware that Mrs. Pogson had joined us. Silently, mysteriously, she faded—the term holds good—into evidence, as on so many former occasions ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... valiant and handsome personage. A face that had still a healthy natural pinkness looked out from under blond curls, and an elegant and carefully tended hand tossed back some fine old lace to gesticulate more freely. She had previously charmed her hearers by sweeping aside certain ...
— War and the Future • H. G. Wells |
