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1  First, two pretty girls, very neatly dressed, served them with chocolate, which was frothed exceedingly well.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXV
2  The girl was very pretty, and sang; she looked amorously at her Theatin, and from time to time pinched his fat cheeks.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXIV
3  One day I took it into my head to step into a mosque, where I saw an old Iman and a very pretty young devotee who was saying her paternosters.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXVIII
4  Candide was at once conducted to a beautiful summer-house, ornamented with a very pretty colonnade of green and gold marble, and with trellises, enclosing parraquets, humming-birds, fly-birds, guinea-hens, and all other rare birds.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XIV
5  You know, my dear Candide, I was very pretty; but I grew much prettier, and the reverend Father Didrie, Superior of that House, conceived the tenderest friendship for me; he gave me the habit of the order, some years after I was sent to Rome.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XV
6  One day Cunegonde, while walking near the castle, in a little wood which they called a park, saw between the bushes, Dr. Pangloss giving a lesson in experimental natural philosophy to her mother's chamber-maid, a little brown wench, very pretty and very docile.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In I
7  Pangloss made answer in these terms: "Oh, my dear Candide, you remember Paquette, that pretty wench who waited on our noble Baroness; in her arms I tasted the delights of paradise, which produced in me those hell torments with which you see me devoured; she was infected with them, she is perhaps dead of them."
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In IV