lovely vs taking

lovely

adj
  • Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. 

  • Very nice, wonderful. 

adv
  • In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully. 

noun
  • A lovely object. 

  • Term of fond address. 

  • An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. 

taking

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

noun
  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

How often have the words lovely and taking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )