1 She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.
2 Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.
3 At a late hour dainty refreshments were served, and the party broke up with many expressions of pleasure at the pleasant affair.
4 But sometimes," Raymie sighed, "there is a pair of dainty little shoes like these, and I set them aside for some one who will appreciate.
5 Their hearts shut again till spring, and the nine months of cliques and radiators and dainty refreshments began all over.
6 But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.
7 Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
8 Mrs. Marshall's social position was unquestioned, and wealth showered every dainty on this child which was idolized with its brothers and sisters by its white papa.
9 And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world.
10 And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.
11 Another piece called to her mind a dainty young woman clad in an Empire gown, taking mincing dancing steps as she came down a long avenue between tall hedges.
12 Her head, set off by her dainty white gown, suggested a rich, rare blossom.
13 As she gave a dainty scrap or two to the doggie, she talked intimately to him about Etienne and Raoul.
14 His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.