Sentence examples for own gracious from inspiring English sources
An encounter with the earthy Queen of Wollo Galla revives memories of the Empress of China, the Maharani of the Punjab, the Rani of Jhansi, and Queen Victoria ("our own gracious monarch") herself.
** An encounter with the earthy Queen of Wollo Galla revives memories of the Empress of China, the Maharani of the Punjab, the Rani of Jhansi, and Queen Victoria ("our own gracious monarch") herself.
Romney's own gracious and restrained remarks in a national interview have introduced her to the entire country as a woman of grace and intelligence, with a keen ability to read an emerging issue and to exploit its national political significance -- without in the least appearing to do just that.
"Canny about people, trends, taste". Roth counters with her own description: gracious.
My good friend the artist Bill Dunlap got me invited to one owned by a very gracious couple from Jackson, and it boasted a huge powder room, delicious hors d'oeuvres, maid service and an enormous (and stunning, of course) Dunlap landscape hanging on the wall.
The old man by whose side Beckett hides under floorboards, sharing a bottle to pee in, could be a character from his own pages: "He is a gracious pisser, and a courteous sleeper; he does not fart as much as might be supposed".
Another great 18th-century hymnwriter was Philip Doddridge, and he might prophetically have had Mrs T in mind when he wrote My Gracious Lord, I Own thy Right.
There, Mrs. Porter, a sleek and finely fashioned woman, lives in an atmosphere untouched by rehearsals, tryouts, or anything less gracious than her own collection of aquamarines.
Fucking Roy was kind and gracious, suppressing his own ideas while generously fielding every wild and unbuildable notion from Ida, perhaps knowing that her interest in reality, in plausibility and practicality, could be low.
He, too, owns a home there, a gracious town house just off Kensington High Street.
New Rochelle neighborhoods like Forest Heights and Beechmont Woods are filled with gracious postwar homes owned by middle-class professionals.
