pleasingness

Example Sentences

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Doubtless the painter had noticed the pleasingness of such reflections, as repeating the human form, the supreme object of interest; but the interest stopped there.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

Some of them were pretty, and none had any defect in person, to take off from that general pleasingness which attends youth and innocence.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Scott, Sarah

When Sylvester had finished his reading, the friends were unanimous in their opinion that the tale was worthy of the Serapion Club, and they particularly admired the pleasingness of the general tone which characterised it.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

That such pleasingness would reside for her in any man astonished her. 

From The Game by London, Jack

In outward appearance she was not remarkable, though extremely pleasing, and it was a pleasingness that grew upon acquaintance.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh