387 examples of beaux in sentences

" "Oh, I shall never have any such secrets," said Laura, blushing; "my sister never lets the beaux come to see me, you know.

She has her head full of fashions, and beaux, and grown-up things of all sorts.

After making several common-place remarks, one of them inquired of the other"Who is that military gentleman amongst the naval beaux, Holt?"

His dress indicated a Londoner of some fashion, partly by its neatness and simplicity, with just so much of a peculiarity of style as served to show, that although he belonged to the order of metropolitan beaux, he was not altogether a common one.

"' 'No, Sir, (I replied,) she'll say, "There was a terrible ruffian who would have forced me, had it not been for a civil decent young man who, I take it, was an angel sent from heaven to protect me."' Dr. Johnson would not hurt her delicacy, by insisting on 'seeing her bed-chamber,' like Archer in the Beaux Stratagem.

As a matter of fact, he cares not a straw for my beaux yeux; his motives are crudely selfish.

This collection gained celebrity and enjoyed, among the studios and in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the same sort of popular success as that achieved by the immortal complaint of Giovanni Bellini, painter by appointment to the Grand Sultan of the Turks; every dauber in Paris had a copy stored away in his memory.

How the beaux cried with jealousy, "Jove!

Peter began admiring it at once, and, negro fashion, rather overstepped the limits white beaux set to their praise, as he leaned close to her.

It was no uncommon thing for the very negro women to fight over their beaux and husbands.

George Farquhar (1678-1707): The Beaux' Stratagem.

From giant Oaks, that wave their branches dark, To the dwarf Moss, that clings upon their bark, What Beaux and Beauties crowd the gaudy groves, 10 And woo and win their vegetable Loves.

MEADIA'S soft chains five suppliant beaux confess, And hand in hand the laughing belle address; Alike to all, she bows with wanton air, Rolls her dark eye, and waves her golden hair.

So bright, the folding canopy undrawn, Glides the gilt Landau o'er the velvet lawn, 345 Of beaux and belles displays the glittering throng; And soft airs fan them, as they roll along.

The loves of Francesco and Bianca at Pratolino recalled those of Giuliano and Simonetta at Fiesole, whilst the wits, and beaux, and beauteous women who consorted there, revived the glories of the Platonic Academy.

In the continuation called "L'Entretien des Beaux Esprits" (translated in 1734), however, the elaborate framework was so far reduced that fourteen short tales were crowded into two volumes as compared with eighteen in the four volumes of the previous work.

Dresden has always been considered as the Florence of Germany and has always been renowned for its Gallery of paintings; hence the almost innate taste of the Saxons for the Beaux Arts and the great encouragement given to them at all tunes by this Government.

I'm afraid I shan't be able to keep you long for some of the beaux will surely run away with you."

"Vos beaux yeux, Mademoiselle," he creaked gallantly, "and to your good fortune, Monsieur Philidor."

Les beaux soirs de l'Iran. SEE Zavie, Emile.

Vingt lecons sur lea beaux-arts, par Alain, pseud.

Vingt lecons sur les beaux-arts.

SEE Smith, George H. E. BEAUX CECILIA. Agnes Irwin.

It is not, as you may imagine, the Bourgeois, and less distinguished prisoners only, who indulge in these highly-seasoned repasts, at the expence of inhaling the savoury atmosphere they leave behind them: the beaux and petites mistresses, among the ci-devant, have not less exigent appetites, nor more delicate nerves; and the ragout is produced at night, in spite of the odours and disorder that remain till the morrow.

I should be doing injustice to the hospitable settlers of Hickory Creek were I to pass by without notice an entertainment with which they honored our Chicago beaux about this time.

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