Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
At this, she looked full upon him, and already she had something in the nature of a surprise for him; for so powerful was the still balefulness of her glance that he was slightly startled.
"Gentle Julia"
Booth Tarkington
The girl's indifference could not be real; and if it was not, her good acting only betrayed the depths of her experience and balefulness.
"The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight"
Elizabeth von Arnim