His beauty is described with the same life-like intensity as Hetty's: the warm glow of colour in his perfectly-moulded face, with its dark curls and long agate-like eyes; his sunny brightness of look, the velvet softness of a manner with which he ingratiates himself with young and old, and the airy buoyancy of his whole gracious being, are as vividly portrayed as the quick talent to which everything comes natural, the abundant good-humour, the acuteness of a polished intellect, whose sharp edge, will, at need, cut relentlessly through every tissue of sentiment.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Well, there will be no boredom at Dauvergne's if he ingratiates himself with actresses.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
Among Molly's interesting friends or the second year is a young Japanese girl, who ingratiates her "humbly" self into everybody's affections.
"A Girl in Ten Thousand"
L. T. Meade