pleasingness

Example Sentences

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

From The Game by London, Jack

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

Then our speech will be with grace in the lower sense of pleasingness.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander

Consonance, however, is not identical with pleasingness, for different combinations are sometimes pleasing, sometimes displeasing.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer

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