"Beau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... taking trouble with his toilet. He had fine features, to which his extreme youth, his long fair hair, and the gentle expression of his eyes lent much charm. Two years of warfare had given him a martial air; in short, even among the most elegant, he might pass as a beau cavalier. ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... Ce beau guerrier vetu de lames et de plaques, Sous le bronze, la soie et les brillantes laques, Semble un crustace noir, gigantesque ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn
... cach sous ce tas de foin l-bas; mais mon petit cousin m'a montr la malice. Aussi je le dirai son oncle le caporal, afin qu'il lui envoie un beau cadeau pour sa peine. Et son nom et le tien seront dans le rapport que j'enverrai M. ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... form and fibres fine, Were temper'd by the hand divine Who dwells beyond the sky. Look, brother, you have hurt its wing— And plainly by its fluttering You see it's in distress, Gay painted Coxcomb, spangled Beau, A Butterfly is call'd you know, That's always in full dress: The finest gentleman of all Insects he is—he gave a Ball, You know the Poet wrote. Let's fancy this the very same, And then you'll own you've been to blame To spoil ...
— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb
... deistes, ales a Dieu, beau doulx amis. Ne oncques puis du cueur ne me pot issir; ce fut li moz qui preudomme me fera si je jamais le suis; car oncques puis ne fus a si grant meschief qui de ce mot ne me souvenist; cilz moz me conforte ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
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