Everybody had accepted her for what she was -- a very charming girl.

She had used his rumpled shorts as the very image of his childishness, his lack of control, his general male looseness, while she remained cool, airy, and untouched, the charming teacher who disciplined an unruly body.

Mercer thought that she looked very distinguished and charming.

According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.

She was said to have had red hair kept in curls, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, elegant, friendly, and gentle, but she was considered to be insane.

As a person she was very energetic, compassionate, charming and always cheerful.

Joshua Barnes, a medieval writer, said " Queen Philippa was a very good and charming person that exceeded most ladies for sweetness of nature and virtuous disposition.

His cousin reported that Whistler at that time was " slight, with a pensive, delicate face, shaded by soft brown curls … he had a somewhat foreign appearance and manner, which, aided by natural abilities, made him very charming, even at that age.

" In his memoirs, one of the guards at the Ipatiev House, Alexander Strekotin, remembered Anastasia as " very friendly and full of fun ," while another guard said Anastasia was " a very charming devil!

One of the British officers noted that Irina " appeared shy and retiring at first, but it was only necessary to take a little notice of her pretty, small daughter to break through her reserve and discover that she was also very charming and spoke fluent English ".

A Muslim is warned that this world is very insidious and charming and can easily overwhelm and beguile those of weaker character and force them to forget the real reason we ( as human beings ) are here ; that is, to work hard and do the good acts and deeds of worship and charity that would eventually save us on Judgement Day.

On the whole his finest work is the collection of Romanzen vom Rosenkranz ( published posthumously in 1852 ); his short stories, and more especially the charming Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl ( 1817 ), which has been translated into English, were very popular.

Further stating that " The way they depict famous writers throughout history, the things they put in the background, such as books with wings, and their ways of showing the importance of the library in the community was very charming the way they did it.

She also has a high-spirited nature and is known to be very charming toward most of the crew, while at the same time she likes to make humorous or even slightly sarcastic remarks every now and then.

Queen Victoria was very supportive, considering Mary ideal — charming, sensible and pretty.

' [...] The character became very charming in his complete lack of awareness about, among other things, his own sexuality.

Of his later writings the most important are the admirable satire on German provinciality — the most attractive of all his prose writings — Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte ( A very probable history of the Abderites, 1774 ), and the charming poetic romances, Das Wintermärchen ( 1776 ), Das Sommermärchen ( 1777 ), Geron der Adelige ( 1777 ), Pervonte oder die Wünsche ( 1778 ), a series culminating with Wieland's poetic masterpiece, the romantic epic of Oberon ( 1780 ).

Some cultural historians believe that the adjective " elfin " came to be used to describe the facial features of people with Williams syndrome because, before Williams syndrome's scientific cause was understood, people believed that sufferers of the syndrome, who have very charming and extraordinarily kind personalities in comparison to most people, were gifted with extraordinary, even magical, powers.

The New York Times writes, " Jenkins makes the most of an especially ingratiating cast, with Ms. Tomei very charming and funny as Rita " while another critic states Tomei is " spunky and sexy,.

Contrary to these though, he can be very charming, but this is all a front so he can double-cross people.

Matthew quickly becomes fascinated by the girl's good-hearted spirit, charming enthusiasm and lively imagination, and wants her to stay at Green Gables from the very first.

He adds: " I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

The adult, very charming, knows his way around-even invited one of the fans to lunch across the street-the child, frightened, alternately praying to God and the devil to get him out of this.

He looked very carefully at every piece of furnishing, as though hoping to store this information carefully in his mind.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

Many of the sweets produced in this region, such as quince, sweet potato, molasses and dulce de cayote jams, have given rise to a very well known and easily made dessert referred to as vigilante, or to so-called queso y dulce ( where a piece of fresh cheese is served with one of the sweets mentioned above ).

In peyote stitch, beads are woven into the piece in a very similar fashion to knitting or cross stitching.

Peyote stitch patterns are very easy to depict diagrammatically because they are typically stitched flat and then later incorporated into the piece or left as a flat tapestry.

At times during the piece, Beethoven directs that the beat should be one downbeat every three bars, perhaps because of the very fast pace of the of the movement, with the direction ritmo di tre battute (" rhythm of three bars "), and one beat every four bars with the direction ritmo di quattro battute (" rhythm of four bars ").

The top, back and sides of a classical guitar body are very thin, so a flexible piece of wood called kerfing ( because it is often scored, or kerfed so it bends with the shape of the rim ) is glued into the corners where the rim meets the top and back.

A " gag " is a very short piece of clown comedy which when repeated within a bit or routine may become a " running gag ".

*** The swell of the muzzle refers to the slight swell in the diameter of the piece at the very end of the chase.

Boards wide enough to use as a solid body are very expensive due to the worldwide depletion of hardwood stock since the 1970s, so the wood is rarely one solid piece.

The top, back and ribs of an acoustic guitar body are very thin ( 1 – 2 mm ), so a flexible piece of wood called lining is glued into the corners where the rib meets the top and back.

Coffee is also very common, not only for breakfast, but also accompanying a piece of cake in the afternoon, usually on Sundays or special occasions and birthdays.

As Hamlet was very popular, Bernard Lott, the series editor of New Swan, believes it " unlikely that he would have overlooked ... so significant a piece ".

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

The Harrison-Cotton machine represents the very first piece of equipment able to accurately quantify human power output ; power calculation within an accuracy range as achieved by his machine of less than 1 % remains an impressive result today.

However, because an IDE is a complicated piece of software by its very nature, this higher productivity only occurs after a lengthy learning process.

If you take a piece of paper in your hands, holding it on both ends, you can pull very hard and not tear the paper.

Needle felting is a technique used to add decoration to a knitted or felted piece, where raw roving is applied using a very sharp barbed felting needle by repeatedly piercing the roving and background together.

In laser ablation for example, a small volume of material at the surface of a work piece can be evaporated if it is heated in a very short time, whereas supplying the energy gradually would allow for the heat to be absorbed into the bulk of the piece, never attaining a sufficiently high temperature at a particular point.

Although the very subject matter caused it to be considered scandalous at the time, its brief revival three decades later, in the open and radicalized culture of the late 1960s, when the author was approaching his 70th birthday, found the once-ahead-of-its-time work judged as a tame and dated period piece below Achard's usual literary standard.

Today, most modern factory-made machetes are of very simple construction, consisting of a blade and full-length tang punched from a single piece of flat steel plate of uniform thickness ( and thus lack a primary grind ), and a simple grip of two plates of wood or plastic bolted or riveted together around the tang.

It is produced from either a small blade ( microblade ) or a larger blade-like piece of flint by abrupt or truncated retouching, which leaves a very typical piece of waste, called a microburin.