Wuthering Heights vocabulary

Dad shook hands with all the men, patted the children and smiled winsomely at the women.

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And nearly three hundred years later, Cromwell’s methods of expounding the sweet winsomeness of Purity and Liberty were shooting, slashing, clubbing, starving, and burning people, and after him the workers paid for the spree of bloody righteousness with blood.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here

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‘Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?’ she pursued, kneeling down by me, and lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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I sat forward in the visitor’s chair, trying to look winsomely appealing.

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Let me show you the garden” (the last more brightly, with a kind of winsome toss of the voice).

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita