They have studied their graces, and the result is there only too evident.
"What are your graces' orders?" she asked, dropping a curtsy and scraping the ground with her feet.
"In a moment, in a moment, your graces," she answered, and ran off as fast as her six legs could carry her.
These encounters with strange children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the environs of Paris.
Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions.
She kept her old Spanish house (one of the finest specimens in Sulaco) open for the dispensation of the small graces of existence.
In the first place it was low; its devotees were wholly lacking in the graces of life, in prestige, and that ease which comes with assurance of power.
She was dressed, however, in exquisite taste--and then I had no doubt that she had captivated my friend's heart by the more enduring graces of the intellect and soul.
If he possessed the power to arrest any wandering eye when exhibiting the glories of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still more likely to attract attention.
Like a landscape melting into distance, they receive a thousand charms from their very obscurity, and the fancy delights to fill up their outlines with graces and excellences of its own creation.