10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAKINGNESS»
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Several letters between two ladies: wherein the lawfulness ...
What your' Ladiship objects, That the Use of any artificial Beauty may be an
occasion to another's Sin, a Snare and Temptation to them : Truly so may all
outward Adarningr, (which have 'something in them- of a complaisance and
takingness) ...
2
The Illustrated Fly-fisher's Text Book: A Complete Guide to ...
I cannot, at present, admit it as proved, that colour has anything to do with the "
takingness" of a fly. I do not really think that a salmon looking upwards from his
depth below, can distinguish more than that an opaque object is passing by him,
...
3
The illustrated national pronouncing dictionary of the ...
Taking, (tak'ing) a. alluring. Takingness, (tak'ing-nes) n. the quality of pleasing.
Tale, (tal) ft. a story ; number. Talebearer, (tal'bar-er) n. an officious informer. [
faculty. Talent, (tal'ent) n. a weight; coin; Talented, (tal'ent-ed) a. possessing
talents or ...
4
The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, ...
At other times, they will find out, that you have features equally delicate and
regular ; when I think, and I have examined them jointly and separately, that all
your takingness is owing to that open and cheerful countenance, which gives
them a ...
Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia),
1820
5
The Head of the House of Coombe
He is a kind of miracle of good looks and takingness.” Robin said nothing. She
had plainly not been interested in the Balkan tragedy and she as obviously did
not care for the miracle. “You don't ask who he is?” said Kathryn. “I don't want to ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
2008
6
Redemption redeemed: wherein the most glorious Work of the ...
... as such, (I mean as they are saints,) it hath no agreement or takingness at all (
as was shown formerly).* 4. And lastly, the very truth is, all things duly considered
, that the consideration we now speak of, and which is specified in the objection,
...
7
The Daughters of Isenberg: A Bavarian Romance
... warmth of 'his feelings particularly manifested itself in his engaging
countenance and animated language, that what Sigismond had described as his
characteristic “ takingness of manner,” was so eminently conspit_:uous—so
irresistibly felt.
Alicia Tindal Palmer,
1810
8
Some T'ang and Pre-t'ang Texts on Chinese Painting
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CHON-CHIH In soul resonance 3 and nervous energy he did not come up to the
wise men of earlier times, but in refinement and delicacy, pains- takingness and
detail ...
William Reynolds Beal Acker,
1954
9
The Death of Argument: Fallacies in Agent Based Reasoning
It could be made rational, or cognitively competent, by addition of the clause, (*)
Q implies P- and the over-takingness of the preconception, its seizure of 5 at tj, in
C, could be given additional emphasis by way of a further condition, (**) 5 only ...
10
The Fly-fisher's Entomology
I cannot, at present, admit it as proved, that colour has anything to do with the "
takingness" of a fly. I do not really think that a salmon looking upwards from his
depth below, can distinguish more than that an opaque object is passing by him,
...