paragon
Definition: A model of excellence
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The Redemption of David Corson - By Charles Frederic Goss
...`` Who is this paragon of virtue to whom you so confidently trust the chastity of your wife ? "...
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point--one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed--they contrived in the end to reach it ....
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...She has everything, everything in her favor, " said this delightful unknown paragon . "...
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James
...Especially, " added Madame Merle, `` as I do n't think him a paragon of husbands . "...
Babbitt - By Sinclair Lewis, Jean Hersholt Collection of Sinclair Lewis (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
...He was jarred as by nothing else when the paragon of stenographers, Miss McGoun, suddenly left him, though her reasons were excellent--she needed a rest, her sister was sick, she might not do any more work for six months ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...And busily, in my own mind, I ran over the list of our inmates, seeking this paragon, this pearl of great price, this gem without flaw . "...
Don Quixote - By Ronald D. K. Storer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...i Brillador was Orlando 's horse; Bayard, Rinaldo 's : ' Qnol Brigliador el bello e sl gagliardo Che non na paragon, fnorche Baiardo . '...
Westward Ho! - By Charles Kingsley, N. C. Wyeth
...`` You must stay here to-night; first, for good fellowship 's sake; and next, because I want the advice of our Phrenix here, our oracle, our paragon ....
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - By Anne Bront
...I saw that paragon of manly perfections in London : he seemed scarcely to merit the eulogiums of his mother and sister, though he certainly appeared more conversable and agreeable than Lord Lowborough, more candid and high-minded than Mr. Grimsby, and more polished and gentlemanly than Mr. Hattersley, Arthur 's only other friend whom he judged fit to introduce to me ....
Barchester Towers - By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir
...That paragon of a clergyman, whom he had bestowed upon St. Ewold 's, that college friend of whom he had boasted so loudly, that ecclesiastical knight before whose lance Mr. Slope was to fall and bite the dust, that worthy bulwark of the church as it should be, that honored representative of Oxford 's best spirit, was--so at least his wife had told him half a dozen times--misconducting himself !...
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...But lest this should not have been thy fortune, we will endeavor with our utmost skill to describe this paragon, though we are sensible that our highest abilities arc very inadequate to the task ....
Dombey and Son - By Charles Dickens, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, John Gilbert
...Edith Granger is Edith Granger still; but if tough old Joey B., sir, were a little younger and a little richer, the name of that immortal paragon should be Bagstock . "...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - By Washington Irving
...Sir Philip Sydney 's Arcadia, the immortality of which was so fondly predicted by his admirers, -LRB- a -RRB- and which, in truth, is full of noble -LRB- a -RRB- Live ever sweete booke; the simple image of his gentle witt, and the golden pillar of his noble courage; and ever notify uuto the world that thy writer was the secretary of eloquence, the breath of the muses, the honey bee of the diiin-tyest flowers of witt and arte, the pith of morale and intellectual virtues, the arme of Bellona in the field, the tonge of Suada in the chamber, the sprite of Practise in esse, and the paragon of excellency in print ....
The Old Wives' Tale - By Arnold Bennett
...The paragon of common-sense, pictured by most people as being somehow un-liable to human frailties, could not yet screw himself up to the point of ringing a dentist 's door-bell ....
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...This paragon makes her excuses to King Arthur for not tarrying at his court, as she had a long journey before her, but points out a castle where 570 knights, each with his lady, were detained in captivity -LRB- f. 26 -RRB- ....
The Prime Minister - By Anthony Trollope
...And yet this paragon was vainly in love with Emily Wharton, who, in the way of love, would have nothing to say to him, preferring,--as her father once said in his extremest wrath,--a greasy Jew adventurer out of the gutter !...
Plain Tales from the Hills - By Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton
...Later on, Mrs. Youghal, who was wrapped up in her servants, began talking at houses where she called of her paragon among saises--the man who was never too busy to get up in the morning and pick flowers for the breakfast-table, and who blacked--actually blacked--the hoofs of his horse like a London coachman !...
Bonaventure - By George Washington Cable
...-- ' One made up Of loveliness alone; A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon . " '...