beau-ideal

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".

Great dynasties of the world: The Plantagenets 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.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

The beau-ideal which Dame Glendinning had been bodying forth in her imagination, became unexpectedly realized in the buxom form of Mysie

The Monastery 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.

Tales of all countries 2004

He looked the beau-ideal of a servant of all work.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

The Banyan is a born trader, the beau-ideal of a sharp money-making man.

How I Found Livingstone 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.

No Name 2003

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.

A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

Nothing too much; nothing lacking -- just the beau-ideal of

The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

The landlady came; a fit spirit to rule over such a domain -- the beau-ideal of tidiness and good humour.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various