1 The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 2 She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER II 3 There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI 4 You used to know how, to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 5 You want perfection all at once.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 6 She laid her dreams of perfection aside.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 7 But four parts are altogether necessary to the perfection of melody.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 2 8 And if he himself could believe in his virtuous perfection, he conceived that there would be small trouble in convincing all others.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 11 9 At last, they were all seated at breakfast, while Mary stood at the stove, baking griddle-cakes, which, as they gained the true exact golden-brown tint of perfection, were transferred quite handily to the table.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 10 Her form was the perfection of childish beauty, without its usual chubbiness and squareness of outline.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XIV 11 We can't have perfection; and if I keep him, I must sustain his administration as a whole, even if there are, now and then, things that are exceptionable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 12 A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
13 Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 10 14 Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter XXIX 15 By dint of this ingenious scheme, his gloves were got on to perfection.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter LV