Day by day, the nation's capital is becoming a fortress, turning a city known for graceful beauty into a virtual armed camp.

It was, he decided, lovely in a way he had never anticipated, almost organic in its silent, graceful beauty.

Annie sat and watched her walk to the bar, a tall, graceful, long-legged Jamaican beauty about whom she knew.

For some minutes, the elder men stood looking at the graceful beauty of the ship.

Although described as a graceful beauty and won the school's beauty contest.

And here she was, grown up to be a still more lovely slim, blond, graceful beauty.

The girl abruptly lifted her skirts, revealing ankles and limbs of graceful beauty.

She was a graceful and sleek winged beauty.

The creatures had a graceful beauty while gliding, but their walk was a clumsy shuffle-and-sway.

They were horrible to see, but there was a kind of graceful beauty to their deadly ballet.