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Example sentences for "paragon"

Lexicographically close words:
paradys; paradyse; paraffin; paraffine; paraffined; paragons; paragraph; paragraphed; paragraphing; paragraphs
  1. Paragon of wisdom, you have stated the situation.

  2. Riding down to lunch with your paragon of a station-agent.

  3. The Elsdale Street at Hackney which is found in close contact with Paradise Passage, Well Street, and Paragon Road may mark an original Elves or Ellie's Dale.

  4. You are the paragon of all that is silly and sensible, common-place and eccentric, sad and lively, provoking and interesting.

  5. But the Perrots were already settled in Paragon Buildings[99] when the Austens arrived, and the two families would be constantly meeting.

  6. We stopped in Paragon as we came along, but as it was too wet and dirty for us to get out, we could only see Frank, who told us that his master was very indifferent, but had had a better night last night than usual.

  7. Probably Jane wrote 'Axford Buildings,' which were a continuation of Paragon towards Walcot Church.

  8. Paragon Buildings, and that his name was on the door.

  9. We every day expect your father here; and when he comes, and finds you so changed by grief from the paragon of beauty we reported you, he will think we have taken no care of you.

  10. Your excellency is a paragon of courage," replied the servant, obsequiously.

  11. I remember well My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern In the old merry days, and she so gay With her red paragon bodice and her ribbons!

  12. But notwithstanding it is this very paragon of unity, space in its parts contains an infinite variety, and the unity and the variety do not contradict each other, for they obtain in different respects.

  13. Not only for simplicity's sake do we select space as the paragon of a rationalizing continuum.

  14. Then he thought bitterly upon that paragon of perfection who had caused his banishment.

  15. At the mere thought of presenting Bobby to this paragon of social perfection, Percival shuddered.

  16. His mother becomes the very paragon of schoolmistresses.

  17. The mother of Twm became the very pink and paragon of schoolmistresses.

  18. Had I fallen in love with anybody else, my dearest Nina, you might have cause for anger; but I assert, to fall in love with my own wife proves me a paragon of fidelity.

  19. If Victorian literature had something more than a paragon in Dickens, it had its paragon too in the poet Tennyson.

  20. Footnote 13: Rustam is the fabulous hero of Persian history, so much celebrated in the Shah Nameh as a paragon of strength and courage.

  21. I was looked upon as a paragon of moderation.

  22. Well, well, Rosalie, I should like to put my hat on when you have done admiring me; I suppose I shall see this paragon of a Jennie on Monday, if I live.

  23. The "Serrar del Consiglio" made Venice and her empire the paragon of oligarchic States.

  24. If you invented that story you deserve help as a paragon among improvisators; if you had all those adventures you deserve help ten times over and you certainly need it.

  25. Narcissus, the wrestler, to the astonishment of the spectators, proved himself a paragon horse jockey.

  26. I stared back and forth from this paragon in a charioteer's tunic to the stolid lump on the Imperial throne, perplexed at the enigma, feeling just on the verge of comprehension, but baffled.

  27. I am very desirous of becoming acquainted with this paragon of learning--you have told me so much about him; and I confess it was partly to see him that I made this visit.

  28. Two plates of black walnuts; one plate showing hybridity between Persian walnut and butternut; one plate Paragon chestnuts; one plate especially large American sweet chestnuts.

  29. Chestnuts of the Paragon type I hoped were going to be fairly immune, but they are going pretty fast.

  30. I have twenty acres of the Paragon chestnuts growing.

  31. I have advised people who have asked about Paragon chestnuts to buy them, but be prepared to have to cut out blighted branches as they appeared.

  32. In the nursery it is now chiefly grafted to seedlings grown from Paragon nuts.

  33. Why, last night, sir, she sat in the drawing-room just for all the world a paragon of propriety with ten generations of grand dames to her name.

  34. I don't think it can be the fault of the Paragon Detergent,' said Washington, 'for I have tried it with everything.

  35. He bore Washington a special grudge, being quite aware that it was he who was in the habit of removing the famous Canterville blood- stain, by means of Pinkerton's Paragon Detergent.

  36. It is a very difficult thing to get real blood nowadays, and, as your brother began it all with his Paragon Detergent, I certainly saw no reason why I should not have your paints.

  37. The sins of the fourth earl and the follies of the fifth should all be forgotten in that paragon the sixth.

  38. People always mean to be the soul of logic and the paragon of charity!

  39. And she still thinks that he was the paragon of all virtues.


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