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You have all pictured him, the beau-ideal of muscular Christian, the Fighting Parson, eighteen hands high, terrific in wind and limb, with a golden mane and a Greek profile; a Pekinese in the drawing-room, a bull-dog in the arena; a soupçon of Saint FRANCIS with a dash of JOHN L. SULLIVAN and all that.
There was a library for my boy Ned, a smoking-room in cherry-wood, a billiard-room in black walnut, a dining-room in oak and crimson in brief, the beau-ideal of a den for a couple of bachelors. By Jove! it was like a club-house the only model for a home of which poor old Lynde had any conception.
The soubrette was like a beautiful Gipsy, with a clear, dark complexion, rich, mantling colour in her velvety cheeks, intensely black hair long, thick, and wavy great, flashing, brown eyes, and rather a large mouth, with ripe, red lips, and dazzling white teeth one's very beau-ideal of a bewitching, intriguing waiting-maid, and one that might be a dangerous rival to any but a surpassingly lovely and fascinating mistress.
'When I give you the windowglass spectacles I have in my pocket, you'll be the beau-ideal of a French commercial traveller. Pitman did not reply, but continued to gaze disconsolately on his image in the glass. 'Do you know, asked Michael, 'what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina?
The beau-ideal, though simple and indivisible, discloses, when viewed in two different aspects, on the one hand, a property of gentleness and grace, and on the other, an energetic property; in experience there is a gentle and graceful beauty and there is an energetic beauty.
He was the beau-ideal of the best type of Englishman, in the full tide of youth, health and good spirits. "I suppose he is a great favorite with all those beautiful ladies?" she asked very quietly.
Julius was his beau-ideal of all that was best, and he thought that if he imitated Jule, and answered quickly the first thing that came into his head, that was guessing. But Rolf was angry. "How can you be so stupid, Hunne? Just think about it a little, can a nut cover some one on his last way?" "Why, it can cover well the shell covers it."
She knew that some of the men present were noblemen, and saw that their manners, and even the tones of their voices, changed when they addressed her. From the secluded life she had led, this girl was incapable of making quick comparisons. She only knew that none of these men possessed the gentle tenderness or the proud bearing of the teacher, who had become to her a beau-ideal of true manhood.
Those who possessed the rare privilege of Le Fanu's friendship, and only they, can form any idea of the true character of the man; for after the death of his wife, to whom he was most deeply devoted, he quite forsook general society, in which his fine features, distinguished bearing, and charm of conversation marked him out as the beau-ideal of an Irish wit and scholar of the old school.
He was the beau-ideal of a preceptor, and it was impossible to see him and hear his mild pleasing voice, without wishing that all your sons were under his protection. He was a ripe scholar, and a good one, and at the time we speak of, had the care of upwards of one hundred boys.
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