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An etching, done by one of my great-great aunts, of a path leading uphill in the moonlight, to a small cottage where smoke curls invitingly from the chimney;

2009 January « Becca’s Byline 2009

An etching, done by one of my great-great aunts, of a path leading uphill in the moonlight, to a small cottage where smoke curls invitingly from the chimney;

Cafe Writing: Seven Things 2009

First he called invitingly while I held my breath, and then he commanded as he scratched for lost crumbs in the white dust of the Riverfield ribbon, but the foolish creatures only huddled and squeaked, and at a few cautious steps I took in their direction, they showed a decided threat of vanishing forever into the woods.

The Golden Bird Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

The style could be described as invitingly strange or vague to the point of alienation, depending on one's appreciation of droning guitar instrumentals and lyrics about feeding your lover garbage.

Austinist 2010

Furthermore: Why does the "invitingly" posed plastic sex bomb have only ONE wineglass?

The Displays That Time Forgot Jen 2008

Miss Bracy's distinguished nose; but he kept the boyish laugh -- the laugh which always seemed to them to call invitingly from the door of his soul, "Why don't you enter and read me?

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Relying on a rigid formula that combines roomier floor plans with conspicuous downtown locations and parking lots oversized enough to be invitingly half-empty at even the busiest hour, Walgreen earns the largest drugstore revenues in the nation – with only the third-most outlets.

Protecting the Heart of the Borough « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism David Tereshchuk 2011

Etherington goes across to take it on the right and curls it invitingly into the area, where Huth arrives eight yards from goal to nut a header a few yards over the bar.

Stoke City v Newcastle United - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011

The mistake City made when Nani's cross took a deflection to hang invitingly in the air behind Rooney was to stand back and admire his technique.

Liverpool revival under Kenny Dalglish puts the heat on Alex Ferguson | Paul Wilson 2011