Example Sentences

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Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness on one side of your lawn.

From Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane

They hated those forms of execution which are merely smooth and prettyish, and those which, pretending to mastery, are nothing better than slovenly and slapdash, or what the P.R.B.'s called “sloshy.”

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

And as she spoke, a frank-eyed, gentle, prettyish lady, not so tall as I, but with a very kind face, rose up from a book of prints, and, smiling, took our hands.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

"They've got a prettyish girl, called Dalton; but as to her being rich, I think it very unlikely, seeing that her family are living in Germany in a state of the very closest poverty."

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

I've thought of that, too, Miles, and at one time fancied it would be a prettyish sort of an idee; but it won't stand logarithms, at all.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore