Which preposition to use with beau
But Sir Wynston had been a roué, and, spite of the cleverest possible making up, the ravages of excess were very traceable in the lively beau of fifty.
"Virge was a great beau in his day," continued Pap, reminiscently.
* * To see a beau at his toilet dress, is no news; But to see two horses playing at chess, is strange indeed!
He had turned in an instant from the sneering, strutting old beau to the fierce soldier with set face and eye of fire.
Few men played honestly in those days without losing to the dishonest, and we have no reason to charge the Beau with mal-practice.
I shall pick for thee a beau like Sir Williams's Romeo.
GENTLEMEN, I bear it with no little concern to find myself so soon forgot among ye; I have paid as constant attendance to post-hours, in expectation to hear from ye, as a hungry Irish Man (at twelve) to a three-penny ordinary, or a decayed beau for nice eating to a roasting-cock's.
Louis Le Beau out of Sibella.
Erelong the proud ant, as repassing the road, (Fatigued from the harvest, and tugging his load), The beau on a violet-bank he beheld, Whose vesture, in glory, a monarch's excelled; His plumage expanded'twas rare to behold So lovely a mixture of purple and gold.
He certainly succeeded in the rôle; he enlivened the dissipations of many a beau by his quaint conceits and flashes of humour, and went on his way rejoicing that he could be the boon companion of twenty idle lords.[A]