Last time we were in for three days, and on the night we left we had a very blood-curdling experience digging a trench which was to bring us closer to our friends the enemy.
I mean, not in that sense; but we are always conscious, and we feel him.
What an awfully good letter you have written me; but, do you know, it makes me ache all over when you write like that about the car.
Prelude indeed to all knowledge and all wisdom will this love of beautiful things be for us; yet there are times when wisdom becomes a burden and knowledge is one with sorrow: for as every body has its shadow so every soul has its scepticism.
Of course, those millionaires who can pillage Europe for their pleasure need have no care to encourage such; but I speak for those whose desire for beautiful things is larger than their means.
This devotion to beauty and to the creation of beautiful things is the test of all great civilised nations.
And the merchants, departing, leave behind them dreams in little Japanese brains of beautiful things to be bought next year.
It is not want of refinement or sensibility to beautiful things.
But--I cannot help thinking that you do not look for the highest,--that you miss a universe of beautiful things.
If any conclusion as to his character and temperament can be drawn from Turner's paintings, it is that he was a gay, light-hearted thinker, with all the optimism and high spirits that come from a delight in beautiful things.
The evil of Impressionism does not lie in the presentation of colour harmonies as beautiful things, for they are unquestionably pleasing, though the beauty is purely sensorial and of an ephemeral character.
But she's a woman full of taste, who cares immensely for fine and beautiful things, for things that appeal to the eye and the mind.
Perhaps you'll smile, but I think these tombs are the mostbeautiful things I have seen in Greece.
Illustration: "Old Frost gave the gentle girl many beautiful, beautiful things"] When the young girl put it on she became such a beautiful maiden that even the sun smiled at her.
The kindness of the gentle girl charmed old Frost so much that he made the decision to treat her differently from others, and gave her a large heavy trunk filled with many beautiful, beautiful things.
When they got to the bottom Hans saw a large number of rooms lit by many lamps and full of beautiful things.
No one would ever have guessed that that little black box could have held such a quantity of beautiful things!
The princess was too happy in her new home to remember all that she had suffered in the old one, and she welcomed them both gladly, and gave them quantities of beautiful things to take back with them.
For, in religious art, beautiful thingsare an oblation; they are the best that we can give, as distinguished from a pleasure arranged for ourselves and got as cheap as possible.
Only one of them is generally admitted to exist, and of it, therefore, I shall speak very briefly, I mean the fact that the enjoyment of beautiful things is originally and intrinsically one of those which are heightened by sharing.
Delight in beautiful thingsand in beautiful thoughts requires, therefore, a considerable exercise of the will and the attention, such as is not demanded by our lower enjoyments.
He never thought of Him as the giver of beautiful things, as the inspirer of happy friendships; he rather regarded Him as the liberal dispenser of disappointments, of rainy days, of reproofs, of failures.
But the grandest appeared when the door of a side room opened; the little boy could remember what beautiful things he had seen there, but to-night everything shone in its brightest colors.
Then she took them into the room where a number of toys lay on a pretty little table, and the whole of the table drawer besides was full of beautiful things.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
Beautiful things began to be made, beautiful colours came from the dyer's hand, beautiful patterns from the artist's brain, and the use of beautiful things and their value and importance were set forth.
This devotion to beauty and to the creation of beautiful things is the test of all great civilisations; it is what makes the life of each citizen a sacrament and not a speculation.
We were rubbing shoulders, hour by hour and day by day, with the world which takes no account of beautiful things.
The great plate-glass windows stretch down the side of a street, and if you go inside the shop you walk through room after room of beautiful things, all arranged to show to the best advantage.
But there were all sorts of beautiful things to look at in the meantime.
In one place, where there are several big shops which stretch down one side of the street, with very pretty windows full of beautiful things, many nursemaids come to wheel babies in perambulators.
Half a child was she, and half a woman, full of the joy of living and the joy of beautiful things; the very spirit of an azure butterfly who flutters through a summer day, dancing from sheer delight.
What did he think of it all, I wonder, this Florentine, this lover of beautiful things, this shepherd who left his sheep and his poverty and lighted the difficult path of art by the torch of his genius?
Just for that moment there was only beauty, and the need of worship to the God of beautiful things.
The Story Girl had asked us to try to make the last month together beautiful, and Nature seconded our efforts, giving us that most beautiful of beautiful things--a gracious and perfect moon of falling leaves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beautiful things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
