beauteous
adjective
literary us
/ˈbjuː.t̬i.əs/ uk
/ˈbjuː.ti.əs/Meaning of beauteous in English
- At length I gave up all hope, except in that God whose almighty hand was so manifest in the beauteous works around me.
- I knew, now, that this beauteous image had not been an hallucination, and by what miracle it had all happened I cared not.
- She beats her beauteous breast, and rends her golden hair.
- Then to the beauteous eyes mine eyes return'd.
Examples of beauteous
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Surely the day will come when its beauteous light shall shed illumination upon the assemblage of man.
From Huffington Post
The beauteous glamor of first love was gone as completely as the flowers and scents and songs that had then filled the charming place.
From Project Gutenberg
They were constantly on the move as they journeyed from one beauteous spot to another, making sure they missed nothing.
From Project Gutenberg
It is not what the world makes of you, but what you make of yourself that counts, the beauteous, seductive night kept whispering to her.
From Project Gutenberg
And to crown all, on both sides of us, as we marched in shining rows, stood our beauteous countrywomen, mingling their congratulations.
From Project Gutenberg
And at last he admonished the innkeeper's daughter to retire to her beauteous apartment, lest he should be forced to prove himself ungrateful.
From Project Gutenberg
It seems there was a beauteous and wealthy widow.
From Project Gutenberg
The beauteous face of nature is merely seen as a veil, hiding a beauty more sublime.
From Project Gutenberg
They looked like avenging dragons driving a foul, malignant fiend out of a beauteous palace.
From Project Gutenberg
Tinder-dry it hung there, a beauteous, tragic, spectacle, towering high above the surrounding flatness of landscape, visible for miles by land and by sea.
From Project Gutenberg
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and looking around with astonishing delight beheld the ample plain, the beauteous tracts below.
From Project Gutenberg
All along this beauteous line of shade, musical with the melody of birds, are elegant villas, evidently the abodes of wealth and fashion.
From Project Gutenberg
He looked in vain for one of the beauteous mountain maids so satisfyingly frequent in the pages of current fiction.
From Project Gutenberg
How unadorned the noble horse, when of his beauteous mane he's shorn!
From Project Gutenberg
Its back is decked with beauteous colors; but when you would approach to view it you are suddenly entwined within its deadly folds.
From Project Gutenberg
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