“There was something of the beautiful failure about her.”
“There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.”
“She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.”
“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”
“She was the sort of girl called “bonny”—not beautiful, but lively and nicely made, with something about her that took the eye.”
“There was something beautiful and timeless to her about a hardback without its jacket, a book that could be known in no way except by reading it.”