This is no Beau as we understand the term, for we make it a word of contempt, a nickname for a feeble fellow in magnificent garments.
That lucky sixpence with the hole in it that you gave to a cabman, Beau Brummell, was that loss the commencement of your downward career?
Beside him, in our eyes, walks for a time the elegant figure of Beau Brummell.
A servant produces a shirt with a 12-inch collar fixed to it, assists the Beau into it, arranges it, and stands aside.
The fair lady in a side box, who hides her face behind a mask, is delighted if Sir Beau will bow to her.
One half of the people who talk glibly of Beau Brummell have but half an idea when he lived, and no idea that, for example, he wore whiskers.
As the curled and scented hair of Alcibiades occurs to our mind, so shallBeau Nash manage his clouded cane.
General Beauarched his handsome brow, and said, 'Ah!
General Beau will, I am sure, take care of the Miss Fotheringhams.
When Maud and General Beau arrived at the waterfall, there, of course, was Desvoeux, trying to encourage the Miss Fotheringhams to cross the stream and so ascend to the finest point of view.
It is all right in the present instance, because Beau does not happen to have any heart either.
Meanwhile, here is my dear General Beaucoming up the road.
Look at that handsome couple talking so mysteriously on the sofa: that is General Beau and Mrs. Vereker, and they are talking about nothing more mysterious than the weather; but it is the General's fancy to look mysterious.
Poor Cockshaw's application for the Carraways had been refused; General Beau had got the appointment and was actually in course of a series of valedictory visits to various ladies whom he believed broken-hearted at his departure.
It was a relief when General Beau appeared, and Maud, in a pet, asked him to take her to the waterfall.
I wish we had had the forfeits all the same and made General Beau do something nice.
Then,' cried Desvoeux, 'you must look at General Beau and learn that youth is eternal.
Maud came back in great spirits and made a public laugh at General Beau for his desertion of her.
Wealthy, generous, liberal, frank, gentlemanly, he is the beau ideal of his class.
We sadly want a beauto accompany us in the evenings when we go out.
Balzac held it to be "un beau livre" and thought Cooper owed his high place in modern literature to painting of the sea and seamen, and idealizing the magnificent landscapes of America.
Passing through the gate, they drove to the inn immortalized by Lawrence Sterne and Beau Brummel, where they found English comfort with French cooking and French taste.
The beau has reached this enviable age, and as he is full of admiration of himself, is generous enough to allow time to others to feast their eyes on him.
He gives us in a single line the very beau ideal of a female character, when he tells us that Laura united the highest intellect with the purest heart, "In alto intelletto un puro core.
There was an improvisatore in company, said to be the second in Italy; a young man, of perhaps twenty-five, with a face that struck me as the very beau ideal of genius.
It is said, that the husband once made a remark upon the huskiness of the maid's voice, but no other comment was ever made, reflecting in the least upon her qualities as a member of the beau sexe.
They are, withal, a gentlemanly class of men; and, of the principal one, as many stories are told as of Beau Brummel.
It is a short raised walk, just inside the railings, and the only part of all these wide and beautiful gardens where a member of the beau monde is ever to be met.
The countenance of Mary has the beau reste of singular loveliness.
I'll be bound ef'n the beau lovers of the evenin' recently relapsed could see you now they would wonder how come they felt so warmed to'ds you.
It never came into my head till this moment that I used to be your beau in a humble sort of way.
You knew he used to be a beau of Miss Gibbie's, didn't you?
Puss never had a beau herself, and she can't get reconciled to Mary's many.
We are indebted to our friendBeau Reynolds for this original idea and it is upon the plan formerly adopted by him that we now proceed to advise as to the maintenance of the distinctions.
If it had only been black, the steed would have been the beau ideal beast for a workhouse hearse; as he was of a dingy brown, he was relegated to a cab.
He led the way into his handsomely furnished study, the beau ideal of a comfortable room for a man with a mingling of literary and sporting tastes.
Beau sire," said Hastings, "thou knowest how little cause I have to love the Earl of Warwick.
Beau sire, often have men, when a sweet face hath captured thy great heart, said the same of thee!
What ends the spells of youth and beauty, beau sire?
From one end to the other the day has been perfect, and my walk this afternoon to Beau Vallon was one long delight.
What rapture, was it not natural to think, did Zorilda now experience in meeting with her beau ideal of female friendship in Mrs. Gordon, of whom she became almost a worshipper!
Two years of warfare had given him a martial air; in short, even among the most elegant, he might pass as a beau cavalier.
