In Arthur Bryant's account, Henry III's son, Edward I, was the last of the great Plantagenets, indeed, the very "beau-ideal of a medieval king". ❋ Unknown (2011)
He has no sympathy for my pleasures in literature; but he is good, and as he is clever, I hope to see him successful. 5 My health is excellent, by having arrived at the beau-ideal of water-drinking, — that is by never desiring to drink any thing else, except tea and coffee. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The beau-ideal which Dame Glendinning had been bodying forth in her imagination, became unexpectedly realized in the buxom form of Mysie ❋ Unknown (2008)
Now, at this moment, she felt that he was the beau-ideal of manhood, though his boots were covered with the railway mud, and though his pantaloons were tucked up in rolls round his ankles. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He looked the beau-ideal of a servant of all work. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Banyan is a born trader, the beau-ideal of a sharp money-making man. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
She is resolute and impetuous, clever and domineering; she is not one of those model women who want a man to look up to, and to protect them — her beau-ideal (though she may not think it herself) is a man she can henpeck. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The atrium, with its marble floor of almost spotless beauty, its lofty columns and noble simplicity of architecture, represented my beau-ideal of a Christian temple. ❋ W. Cope Devereux (N/A)
Nothing too much; nothing lacking -- just the beau-ideal of ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)
She was the beau-ideal of the little convent girl. ❋ Grace E. King (N/A)
The landlady came; a fit spirit to rule over such a domain -- the beau-ideal of tidiness and good humour. ❋ Various (N/A)
Egyptians had conceived a _beau-ideal_ superior to the beautiful which nature habitually produced in their country, we have only to examine the young Memnon, at the British Museum, and the heads of many of the sphinxes which remain. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was her beau-ideal of what a young man should be. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
Clay was the "beau-ideal of a statesman"; but it was clear that his namesake was not of the Clay to cement a new Union! ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
On great occasions, she approached our beau-ideal of an empress, by appearing in a black silk dress lace collar, and gold repeater at her side. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
His charming book, "A Little Tour in Ireland," written "by an Oxonian," had the advantage of Leech's pencil, and by his friendship with that artist, as well as with Thackeray and others of the Staff, he was for a time identified in some measure with _Punch_ itself, besides obtaining recognition as the beau-ideal of "the genial, jolly parson." ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)
And in a moment Dick stood before me -- Dick, Joe's beau-ideal of all that was good, noble, and to be admired. ❋ Emma Gellibrand (N/A)
After passing Faido the scenery becomes, if possible, more beautiful, and at Bellinzona, the capital of the Canton, we saw our _beau-ideal_ of ❋ Various (N/A)
He was then straight as an arrow and elastic as a circus-rider, the very beau-ideal of physical perfection: now he bears the marks of decay, or rather, as is said of grain just before harvest, he has a ripe appearance. ❋ Various (N/A)
Our peculiar political institutions, and the prevalence of common schools, give to _all_ our people an arrogant assurance which is mistaken for the American beau-ideal of a gentleman. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
