beauteousness
Example Sentences
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"Jehovah's affection has rendered me blessed," said the widely-spreading Palm-tree; "in me has He conjoined utility and beauteousness."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 581, December 15, 1832 by Various
Your eyes they have their consciousness, Your lips their grave reflective smile, Your hands their cunning for distress: Your hair has only beauteousness And hid flame for its only guile.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
For the beauteousness of downs and dales, Of wood and water and proud plains, My joy springs up and my grief quails, My anguish ends, and all my pains.
From The Pearl by Sophie Jewett
Even as an oracle Whose soul a god has breathed upon, The beauteousness unbearable Possessed me so all strength was gone.
From Eight Harvard Poets by E. Estlin Cummings
And then the critic, if in a virtuous mood, may indulge in some fine writing regarding the holy beauteousness of maternal affection.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
