RAGUENEAU: . .The Spaniards, gazing on a lady so dainty fair, overlooked the fare so dainty!.英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
I did not think of it especially at time--Harriet says I never see anything really worth while, by which she means dishes, dresses, doilies, and such like but as I remembered afterward the table that Mrs. Vedder set was wonderfully dainty--dainty not merely with flowers (with which it was loaded), but with the quality of the china and silver. It was plainly the table of no ordinary gardener or caretaker--but this conclusion did not come to me until afterward, for as I remember it, we were in a deep discussion of fertilizers.英文原著 · 《The Friendly Road》
It was she who acquainted me with Beranger; that is why I never take up that precious volume that I do not think, sweetly and tenderly, of Fanchonette. The book is bound, as you see, in a dainty blue, and the border toolings are delicate tracings of white --all for a purpose, I can assure you. She used to wear a dainty blue gown, from behind the nether hem of which the most immaculate of petticoats peeped out.英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
how wondrously dainty the finish of every little seam! And the lace! It almost tempts one to change one's sex to wear such things. There was a time indeed, and not so long ago, when brave men wore garments no less dainty. Rupert's Cavaliers were every bit as particular about their lace collars and frills as the lady whose pretty limbs once warmed this cambric. But where is the name? here it is! What sweet writing!英文原著 · 《The Quest of the Golden Girl》
He had a dainty lute under his arm, He touch-ed the strings, which made such a charm, Says, "Please you to hear any music of me, I'll sing you a song of pretty Bessee."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"A poor beggar's daughter did dwell on a green, Who for her fairness might well be a queen: A blithe bonny lass, and a dainty was she, And many one call-ed her pretty Bessee.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Oh, Dunphy, I can play you like a ukulele, 'cause you're small and dainty.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
In and out of the bathroom in her dainty little undies.美剧 · 《Shameless》