Miss Peacocke knows just how to make a pleasant sentimental story out of a situation like this, making it a background for her picture of a little girl, Pat, who is just as sweet and loving and natural a little girl as possible, very tender hearted, and yet full of fun, winning all hearts, and getting into scrapes with her friend, ten-year-old Laurie." — from 'Possum by Mary Grant Bruce
I took leave of the gentlemen at the forts and in the afternoon got to the fisheries near Stony Island where I found Mr. McVicar who was kind enough to have a house ready for my reception; and I was not a little gratified at perceiving a pleasant-looking girl employed in roasting a fine joint and afterwards arranging the table with all the dexterity of an accomplished servant. — from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin
not a little good and pleasant
In the interval there had been continuous and progressive exercise; there had been some great triumphs; there had been not a little good and pleasant work; and of even the work that was less good and less pleasant one may say that it at least represented experiment, and might save others from failure. — from The English Novel by George Saintsbury
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