"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
"...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls."
"...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you."
"The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple."
"There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts."
"Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you."
"And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously."
"Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death."
"How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world."
"Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!"
"Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover."
"She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
"Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life."
"Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture."
"How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out."
"In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship]."
"The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery."
"It's lovely to see people so happy."
"...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."