adorableness

Updated: June 25, 2025

But her eyes were beautiful, and her luxuriant masses of copper-gold hair fitted her shapely head like a glorious aureole; also, she had that indefinable adorableness called charm, and the sweet, direct, childlike frankness of speech which is its characteristic. This was the external Ardea, known of men, and of those women who were large-minded enough not to envy her.

Francis Lynde - The Quickening