"What a pretty boy," she thought to herself, innocently and instinctively trying to ward off the power to hold and draw her that lay behind the mere prettiness.

Her features were delicate, but there was a look of determination about her that saved her from mere prettiness.

Her head, truly charming, was of the purest Sclavonic type-- slightly severe, and likely in a few summers to unfold into beauty rather than mere prettiness.

At its most superficial "Giselle," which had its premiere in Paris in 1841, can degenerate into mere prettiness.

It was more than mere prettiness, he decided, now that he was taking a good look at her.

It's often said that flowers count for less and less the longer one gardens; so, I would add, does mere prettiness.

The kind of beauty that sneaks up on you, that you assumed was mere prettiness.

And a woman who before looked flawlessly, blandly attractive acquires the intriguing, disruptive imperfection that distinguishes beauty from mere prettiness.

There was something more than mere prettiness in Polly's face, though Tom had not learned to see it yet.

His satinwood table-tops, china cabinets and side-tables are the last word in a daintiness which here and there perhaps is mere prettiness.