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Gracious in sentence

102 examples of Gracious in a sentence

Their presence always gave her pain, and she hardly knew how to make a very gracious return to the overpowering delight of Lucy in finding her STILL in town.
Good gracious!
I wonder what curacy he will get!--Good gracious!
D’Artagnan, on the contrary, quite full of his plans of conciliation and courtesy, approached the young men with a profound bow, accompanied by a most gracious smile.
He stooped, and with the most gracious air he could assume, drew the handkerchief from under the foot of the Musketeer in spite of the efforts the latter made to detain it, and holding it out to him, said, "I believe, monsieur, that this is a handkerchief you would be sorry to lose?"
"Ah, ah!" cried one of the Guards, "will you persist in saying, most discreet Aramis, that you are not on good terms with Madame de Bois-Tracy, when that gracious lady has the kindness to lend you one of her handkerchiefs?"
"There is another word which pleases me," cried Athos, with a gracious nod to d’Artagnan.
Mine host’s face does not please me at all; it is too gracious."
Her countenance, with surprising mobility, had recovered its gracious expression; but some little red spots on her handkerchief indicated that she had bitten her lips till the blood came.
D’Artagnan came again on the morrow and the day after that, and each day Milady gave him a more gracious reception.
"Tomorrow--immediately--when you please!"Milady was about to cry out, "Immediately," but she reflected that such precipitation would not be very gracious toward d’Artagnan.
"There are several branches of the d’Artagnans at Tarbes and in its environs," said the cardinal; "to which do you belong?""I am the son of him who served in the Religious Wars under the great King Henry, the father of his gracious Majesty."
"Still, then, I am a prisoner," said Milady, looking around her, and bringing back her eyes with a most gracious smile to the young officer; "but I feel assured it will not be for long," added she.
"Charles would be flattered if he could see the gracious way in which we receive his kindness," said she."Be still, Roddy dear, or you will certainly wake him."
I thank your Royal Highness for your kindness in receiving my nephew in so gracious a fashion."
Mr. Collins returned most punctually on Monday fortnight, but his reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious as it had been on his first introduction.
But Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.
"Good gracious!
Therefore, he who considers it necessary to secure himself in his new principality, to win friends, to overcome either by force or fraud, to make himself beloved and feared by the people, to be followed and revered by the soldiers, to exterminate those who have power or reason to hurt him, to change the old order of things for new, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous and liberal, to destroy a disloyal soldiery and to create new, to maintain friendship with kings and princes in such a way that they must help him with zeal and offend with caution, cannot find a more lively example than the actions of this man.
"So help me gracious, I have a wiper in the bag, an' I'll drop it on your 'ead if you don't hook it."
And respecting language, I willingly hold communication in that spoken by my respected grandmother, Hilda of Middleham, who died in odour of sanctity, little short, if we may presume to say so, of her glorious namesake, the blessed Saint Hilda of Whitby, God be gracious to her soul!"
In execution of the resolution which he had formed during his cooler moments, Prince John received Cedric and Athelstane with distinguished courtesy, and expressed his disappointment, without resentment, when the indisposition of Rowena was alleged by the former as a reason for her not attending upon his gracious summons.
"This thy daughter hath practised the art of healing, hath she not?""Ay, gracious sir," answered the Jew, with more confidence; "and knight and yeoman, squire and vassal, may bless the goodly gift which Heaven hath assigned to her.
"And may it please your gracious Reverence," said the man, "I cannot think the damsel meant harm by me, though she hath the ill hap to be a Jewess; for even when I used her remedy, I said the Pater and the Creed, and it never operated a whit less kindly--""Peace, slave," said the Grand Master, "and begone!
"Now God be gracious to me," said Rebecca, "for the succour of man is well-nigh hopeless!"
"Rise, my friends," said Richard, in a gracious tone, looking on them with a countenance in which his habitual good-humour had already conquered the blaze of hasty resentment, and whose features retained no mark of the late desperate conflict, excepting the flush arising from exertion,--"Arise," he said, "my friends!--Your misdemeanours, whether in forest or field, have been atoned by the loyal services you rendered my distressed subjects before the walls of Torquilstone, and the rescue you have this day afforded to your sovereign.
"Nay, most gracious sovereign," answered the Hermit, (well known to the curious in penny-histories of Robin Hood, by the name of Friar Tuck,) "it is not the crosier I fear, but the sceptre.--Alas! that my sacrilegious fist should ever have been applied to the ear of the Lord's anointed!"
Saint Dunstan--may he be gracious to us!--stands quiet in his niche, though I should forget my orisons in killing a fat buck--I stay out of my cell sometimes a night, doing I wot not what--Saint Dunstan never complains--a quiet master he is, and a peaceful, as ever was made of wood.--But to be a yeoman in attendance on my sovereign the King--the honour is great, doubtless--yet, if I were but to step aside to comfort a widow in one corner, or to kill a deer in another, it would be, 'where is the dog Priest?' says one.
Passepartout, delighted that the young woman, who was very gracious to him, was going to continue the journey with them, went off at a brisk gait to obey his master's order.
He rambled on aimlessly, convinced that he would never again set eye on this gracious being, when suddenly he saw her approaching and forced to pass close to him in the narrow path.
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