Beautiful

Examples

• Did you ever see anything so beautiful? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was a beautiful letter, highly scented, on a pink paper, and with a light green seal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Altogether they were very beautiful, but I fear that I did not regard them with a particularly appreciative eye on this, my first inspection of them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I am as beautiful as Helen! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This was his answer, written, I suppose, in some pique: True you have given me many sweet kisses, and a lock of your beautiful hair. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He used to tell me that I was the most beautiful woman in Louisiana, he was so proud of me and the children. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Can there be beautiful bodies without hearts inside? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My mother was the most beautiful woman, and possessed the finest and most benevolent countenance, I have ever seen in my whole life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Beautiful in pallor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Her heart beat with anxiety, to see how beautiful it would be. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The lady was wealthy and beautiful, and had a liking for the girl, and treated her with great kindness, and kept her always near her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was so beautiful and inaccessible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But his eyes were beautiful and soft and immune from stress or excitement, beautiful and smiling lightly to her, smiling with her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was miraculously conceived through his mother dreaming of a beautiful white elephant! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thus, by this simple and beautiful process, the party is informed that his mother is dead, and he weeps. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Gerald winced in spirit, seeing her so beautiful and unknown. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Everything bore the stamp of summer, and none of its beautiful colour had yet faded from the die. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No ingenuity could make such a picture beautiful--to one's actual vision. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• China continued to produce beautiful paintings long after the fall of the Han rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Angel--angel--don't you think she's good enough and beautiful enough to go to heaven, Gudrun? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now I must go back to sleep to be fresh and beautiful for Miss Barkley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Isn't it beautiful in this light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The doctor said: Ah, the palace of the Louvre--beautiful, beautiful edifice! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You have a gentleman in your train, who has produced some beautiful little poems, I think, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You can speak of her in that measured way, as simply a beautiful creature--only something to catch the eye. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Once my heart sat lightly in my bosom; all the beauty of the world was doubly beautiful, irradiated by the sun-light shed from my own soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You will find the climate delightful and beautiful. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Edited by Julia