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Example sentences for "surpassing beauty"

  • There was an end of that; but Ma went on to say, "I always heard that fox-girls were of surpassing beauty; how is it you are not?

  • The temptation was great, especially as the three daughters were ladies of surpassing beauty as well as adepts at needlework and embroidery, well read, and able to sing sweetly.

  • O´weenee=, the youngest of ten sisters, all of surpassing beauty.

  • Armenia; of surpassing beauty, but insensible to love.

  • She handed him the case, in which lay the miniature of a young girl of surpassing beauty, whose large, dark eyes seemed to gaze upon him with a look of melancholy entreaty.

  • Gods and goddesses fluttered about the stage, Muses and Graces grouped themselves together in attitudes of surpassing beauty; and finally, with one grand tableau, composed of all the dancers, the curtain fell.

  • Under her charge was a virgin of surpassing beauty and of royal lineage, whose name was Ripsime.

  • Indeed the prospect over the walls and towers of the city to the distant sea beyond must at all times have been one of surpassing beauty, whether seen from the windows of the Imperial residence, or from these airy heights above the town.

  • He was the son of a trader, and a youth of surpassing beauty.

  • The young lady was about fifteen years of age, and possessed of surpassing beauty; and after saying a few words of greeting, she turned round and went within again.

  • Nevertheless, his writing for strings alone is of surpassing beauty, with its multiple division of parts, its polyphonic voice-leading, and its impassioned deployment of violas and violoncellos.

  • Every phase of his inexhaustible variety in string writing is of surpassing beauty.

  • The string writing is of surpassing beauty, whether illustrated by the division of violins in their ethereal range, or by passages assigned to divided violas and 'cellos combined with the harp.

  • Though he cannot be ranked as a great orchestrator, his writing for strings alone is of surpassing beauty, nor does his deployment of larger forces lack novelty and effectiveness.

  • Crossing a bridge, the straight road follows the other bank of the river now on the left, and through a defile of surpassing beauty.

  • Illustration: On a plot of mossy grass beyond the thicket, sat two maidens of surpassing beauty.

  • On a plot of mossy grass beyond the thicket, sat two maidens of surpassing beauty.

  • He drew forth the treasure, and it was immediately transformed into a goddess of surpassing beauty.

  • At length, guided by the melancholy notes, he arrived before a grotto, in which he beheld a maiden of surpassing beauty, but of sorrowful mien.

  • From the canvas there looked out at him a lady of surpassing beauty, and the young knight started back in awe and admiration.

  • Within the castle walls there once dwelt a maiden of surpassing beauty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surpassing beauty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also gave; and well; another feature; became aware; foreign pollen; four sons; frequently observed; her beauty; larval life; often represented; only too; private opinion; public expenditure; pursue their; romantic imagination; sailed along the coast; single card; surpassing beauty; urgent need; well they; who wished; would prove