roseately

Updated: May 9, 2025

Above her sat a girl of fifteen, with the family features in their prettiest development the chiseled straight profile, the clear white roseately tinted skin, the large well-opened azure eyes, the profuse glossy hair, the long, slender, graceful limbs, and that pretty head leant against the knees of her own very counterpart; for these were Wilmet and Alda, the twin girls who had succeeded Felix, and whose beauty had been the marvel of Vale Leston, their shabby dress the scorn of the day school at Bexley.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Pillars of the House, V1