Word: gracing
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...forty stanzas. After a while I got an introduction; I did not dare to disclose my love, but feasted my eyes on the charms of her arms and the grace of her face. At length, after many trials and tribulations expressed in many mournful strains, my love is crowned with success, and I am about to lead her to the altar and live happily ever afterwards, when she discloses to me that in taking her I must also take her mother, two maiden aunts, a grandmother (paternal), and a little sister under my protection. This is too much...
...given to the loveliness of the silent forest and the misty waterfall; to the flowers, the rocks, and the trees. They were her companions, her teachers, her world. In them she lost all thought of self, and therefore she was natural. It is true that 'there is real grace in ease of manner,' and her every movement was beautiful. We find elegance in the wilderness sometimes, as well as in drawing-rooms. The backwoods girl was a lady. Not all the wildness of rough swamp or grim shaggy mountain could make her spirit other than a gentle one. Nature made...
...modesty, grace, and wit that blend...
...care not for the form and grace...
...That grace our country's flag...