Meanings of pretty patterns in English

She neglected the flame and began to make pretty patterns with the ashes.

They have paper plates with pretty patterns on them now.

They pulled away and smiled, the afternoon sun making pretty patterns on their cheeks.

The pretty patterns of color and light don't impress them, but the boom-bang-crackle-crash makes them nuts.

They started by weaving pretty patterns, recycling cleanly and moving the ball in textbook fashion at Donnybrook.

The snow was falling, swirling down in pretty patterns, and at another time she might have appreciated it.

They make pretty patterns on a whole ham ready for roasting, and can gussy up an otherwise plain apple tart.

Fortunately their ignorance is their salvation; the pretty patterns please the young ladies, the brave notes of colour set them a-dreaming.

His cousin had never dared do this before; shyness prevented; his intellect wove pretty patterns that had no heat of life in them.

Our house in Billerica had only benches and a rude trestle table with no pretty patterns to please the eye or the hand.

We recommend these two pretty patterns, to our readers notice, as likewise adaptable by transposition, to centres, or by repetition, to broad stripes.

Bright hues, pretty patterns and charming embroidery are particularly striking, or swap out the buttons on an old number for something a little bolder.

And just at that minute bright spots of sunshine appeared on the paper screen, and the shadows of leaves in pretty patterns fluttered over it.

'Moths have to pass through showers, and keep their pretty patterns from damage as best they can,' said mademoiselle.