Those silver sounds, so soft, so clear,
The list'ner held his breath to hear.

_Lady of the Lake, Canto 1._


Spoilt she was on all hands.... But though, from these
circumstances, the city-beauty had become as wilful, as capricious,
and as affected, as unlimited indulgence seldom fails to render
those to whom it is extended; and although she exhibited upon many
occasions that affectation of extreme shyness, silence, and
reserve, which misses are apt to take for an amiable modesty; and
upon others, a considerable portion of that flippancy which youth
sometimes confounds with wit, she had much real shrewdness and
judgment, which wanted only opportunities of observation to refine
it--a lively, good-humoured, playful disposition, and an excellent
heart.--_The Fortunes of Nigel._


The buoyant vivacity with which she had resisted every touch of
adversity, had now assumed the air of composed and submissive, but
dauntless, resolution and constancy.--_Rob Roy._


Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head
and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to
fair beauties. Her clear blue eye, which sat enshrined beneath a
graceful eyebrow of brown, sufficiently marked to give expression
to the forehead, seemed capable to kindle as well as to melt, to
command as well as to beseech.--_Ivanhoe._