26 examples of beau-ideal in sentences

Don't let a suspicion of your dislike cross the lady mother's mind, for Uncle Horace is her beau-ideal of a man.

" You have all pictured him, the beau-ideal of muscular Christian, the Fighting Parson, eighteen hands high, terrific in wind and limb, with a golden mane and a Greek profile; a Pekinese in the drawing-room, a bull-dog in the arena; a soupçon of Saint FRANCIS with a dash of JOHN L. SULLIVANand all that.

I remember to have heard a young Roman urge a friend to pass a winter there; for the witty rogue termed it the beau-ideal of the land of petticoats!"

They were Francis de Kethulle, lord of Ryhove, and John Hembyse, who each seemed formed to realize the beau-ideal of a factious demagogue.

An English country gentleman was his beau-ideal of happiness and contentment.

The Sikhs are the beau-ideal of soldiers.

He was a beau-ideal citizen, for, with all his love of show and circumstance, even in the fulness of his dignity and dominion, he knew how to retain and exhibit certain homely and simple traits, which were quite after the Florentine manner.

The laws of the course, however, would not permit of this, so he stripped and stood forth, the beau-ideal of a well-formed, agile man.

Shakespeare in his one sceptic tragedy has to desert the pure tragic form, and Hamlet remains the beau-ideal of "the poetry of doubt."

The one I suppose would be called the very beau-ideal, not of woman, but of the French womanthe other the ideal, not even of the Jewess, but of the German Jewess.

Indeed, one of his most intimate friends remarked "that he was the beau-ideal of dignified manliness and truthfulness of character."

The union of prosaic sense with poetical feeling, of democratic sympathies with refined and scholarly tastes, of punctilious respect for facts with tender hospitality for ideas, has enabled him to appreciate and embody, both in the conception and execution of the Park, the beau-ideal of a people's pleasure-ground.

This place also belongs to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach; it has always seemed to us the beau-ideal of an English home.

No doubt you have heard my name mentioned as being the beau-ideal of a soldier, and that not only by friends and admirers like our fellow-townsfolk, but also by old officers of the great wars who have shared the fortunes of those famous campaigns with me.

To be convinced that, at some period or another of their history, the 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.

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.

Adams (Parson), the beau-ideal of a simple-minded, benevolent, but eccentric country clergyman, of unswerving integrity, solid learning, and genuine piety; bold as a lion in the cause of truth, but modest as a girl in all personal matters; wholly ignorant of the world, being "in it but not of of it.

He found his beau-ideal in Jacintha, who had besides a fortune of £30,000.Dr.

Birtha, "in love unpractised and unread," is the beau-ideal of innocence and purity of mind.

Sir Roger, who figures in thirty papers of the Spectator, is the very beau-ideal of an amiable country gentleman of Queen Anne's time.

She was the beau-ideal of the little convent girl.

When he first entered Parliament a contemporary observer wrote: "It would be difficult to imagine a more complete beau-ideal of aristocracy.

It is surprising that this beau-ideal should have remained spouseless for two years after coming into his estate.

Every attempt to do good ought to spring naturally from love to God and man; not from a wish merely to attain our beau-ideal of duty.

What "south lands," and "springs of water," are pictured in that beau-ideal "on earth as it is in heaven"!

26 examples of  beau-ideal  in sentences