gracefully

It advanced swiftly and gracefully, leaving behind it a glittering stretch of foam.

His hands, gracefully placed, one upon his hat, the other in the opening of his white waistcoat, were not at all tremulous; his eye was calm and even brilliant.

As for Benedetto, he gracefully wiped his lips with a fine cambric pocket-handkerchief.

Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses; to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St.