Possessing beauty; sensuously beautiful. [Chiefly poetical.]I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife, With wealth enough, and young, and beauteous.Shak., T. of the S., i. 2.
I take it that she now sits beauteous, clothed in white, that round about her sit chanting cherub children, and that she is opening to them from her larger range sweet stories, every one fraught with thought, and taste, and feeling, and lifting them up to a higher plane.
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Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
She says he is âmost beauteous,â but all too mild, and he answers her:
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The Man Shakespeare
A.D. 1740.] 'Exalted soul! whose harmony could please The love-sick virgin, and the gouty ease; Could jarring discord, like Amphion, move To beauteous order and harmonious love; Rest here in peace, till angels bid thee rise, And meet thy blessed Saviour in the skies.'
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Life Of Johnson
She was bright, beauteous, and cold as a gem, â” with clear perceptions of character within a narrow limit, â” enjoying society, and always surrounded with admirers, of whose feelings she seemed quite unconscious.
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Angel beauteous, angel best,
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini