| 单词 | beauty |
| 例句 | Tally averted her eyes from Shay’s beauty, trying to focus her thoughts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time the wild beauty of our hills and the magic of the green river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, I did get picked to be in a beauty pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There are Jamaican jerk restaurants, bulletproofed Chinese restaurants, bulletproofed liquor stores, discount clothing stores, and beauty salons. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Look at this beauty. You think I’d get rid of this beauty? Your grandma got this for me on our honeymoon in Maui.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I started to untie Old Dan but, taking a closer look at him, I could see he could never win a beauty contest. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Father still didn’t, as he thought nothing of leaving it in the charge of a cripple, a beauty queen, and a tomboy who approaches housework like a cat taking a bath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no beauty here, just the faded ghosts of past tenants who’d moved on to better things. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “The youngest liked to admire himself, so I made sure there were plenty of places where he might catch glimpses of his beauty.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Your potter has made the vase, yes, but has not made the beauty. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I’m not envious of her brains or her beauty. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He just came out and walked on up the hall like nothing ever happened—except his socks were now yellow, and the supermarket beauties were in his hand. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Others speculate that the name was chosen for its obvious symbolism: White often represents purity, and a rose often symbolizes love, peace, or the beauty of nature and life. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “And I, the lovely Mary Anne Meecham whose beauty is celebrated in song and legend...” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The speed round is a thing of beauty. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Should beauty of the body or beauty of the mind be more prized by true lovers?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I look at my face in the beauty parlor mirror. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But Tally had never once realized her friend might actually run away, giving up a life of beauty, glamour, elegance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I take a shower and scrub the gold paint, the makeup, the scent of beauty from my body. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s probably a genetic reason every mother believes her son to be the apex of male beauty. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He looked at his drawings for a long time, memorizing their beauty and strangeness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For a child of Aphrodite, Piper tried hard to play down her beauty. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Neither the beauty of my sister nor my intense interest in the DNA structure had snared him. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But if they earn enough spintria, we can lift away the darkness, find the beauty underneath the gray, and maintain their transformation. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He’s the one who’s beautiful, a kind of breathless, inhuman beauty. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Dorian is more inclined to associate with ladies of better breeding and beauty.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My mother came in the door to ask me why I didn’t show up at the beauty shop. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z They loved to share gossip and beauty tips. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But he prefers to focus on hidden beauty, like rotting pumpkins and stormy skies. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Was she going to be a schoolteacher or a librarian or maybe open a beauty parlor down there on Black Mountain Road? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Hermod looked across the hall, and he saw a woman of peculiar beauty. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth, and grace—for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these charms. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His name was Ajax, a twenty-one-year-old pool haunt of sinister beauty. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She remembered the day she and Angeline stood before the beauty of One Horn. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She would walk me across the street to Miss Daisy’s beauty shop and sit me in the small room built onto the side of Miss Daisy’s house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The years passed, and the child grew into a maiden admired by all for her beauty and goodness. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z By every right of beauty and accomplishment, Judith belonged in the new house on Broad Street. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve got the monsters part, and I suppose I’ll grant you beauty. For your lovely face, if not for the seraphim,” she added in a tease. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The tiered compartments fan open, exposing a medley of beauty instruments tucked into nooks and crannies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Don’t move,” she said, and came back a few minutes later with a caddy filled with beauty products. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The golden ratio was favored by artists and nature alike and seemed to prove the Pythagorean assertion that music, beauty, architecture, nature, and the very construction of the cosmos were all intertwined and inseparable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After Keav finished with my hair, she put red rouge on Geak’s lips and cheeks as Chou and I slipped on our new dresses and stood in awe of each other’s beauty. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “How beautiful that is!” said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A lady comes out of the house with long flaming-red hair and wearing enough makeup for a whole beauty contest. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He spent his nights alone, wrote romantic poems in his journal, took pleasure in the grace and beauty of differential equations. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer is, of course: to ensure that future generations of witches and wizards enjoy their strange beauty and powers as we have been privileged to do. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The dawn, the sea-dawn and the mastery of ordered flight, were of such intense beauty that the boy was moved to sing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of beauty in America was new to me, and it was troublesome. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Ill or well, she would always be plain. The grace and harmony of beauty are quite wanting in those features.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He harboured a curious theory about how to develop a sense of beauty in the minds of his children. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shaper sang things that had never crossed his mind before: comfort, beauty, a wisdom softer, more permanent, than Hrothgar’s. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at each other and smiled, and I realized that from these two people I had learned to love the magical beauty of the wide, free earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The counselor who saw Jen as the perfect do-gooder project on her resume, offering her a chance at beauty pageant redemption meant to save them both. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I knew it was silly, but they flattered me and said I was a beauty, and quantities of nonsense, so I let them make a fool of me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When he thought of Chinese beauty the iron predatory faces of the Manchus came to his mind, arrogant and unyielding faces of a people who had authority by unquestioned inheritance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Surely no other place on earth was more proud of its beauty than Venice, and as he watched its spires and domes, each caught the sun as if trying to outshine one another. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “You should have wept for me before,” she told them, “because of the beauty that has drawn down upon me the jealousy of Heaven. Now go, knowing that I am glad the end has come.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I should be worried about some unknown dudes seeing me in my pajamas, but that’s the beauty of sleeping in tanks and basketball shorts. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I thought of the grand preparations, the hours of ladies in beauty parlors, the hundreds of thousands of new and delicate ball gowns, the spike-heeled satin shoes a passing out might sully. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To the Pythagoreans, ratios and proportions controlled musical beauty, physical beauty, and mathematical beauty. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But that, the likelihood of their temporary nature, perhaps made them even more powerful in their beauty. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I just need a few things. A lady has to be prepared,” she said before disappearing into Tiara’s hut and coming out with a strange collection of beauty products. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Gareth particularly tried to prop it up so that it would give a little idea of the beauty which he remembered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For all their beauty there was something sombre about them, funereal; they were like the wreaths, stiff and artificial, that you see beneath glass cases in a foreign churchyard. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And all I ever wanted was to live up to that American definition of beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The sun and moon declare, our beauty's very rare . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z You notice that she mentioned her beauty, intelligence, and popularity twice in one sentence? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I described Daisy Nation, my grandmother, as “renowned for her beauty.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Archaic; from the ecstatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Of course not. I need to...I need to advise one of my sisters on whether she should complete a specific beauty request for one of her clients." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps the truth has been forced upon him, I thought, looking at her with suspicion, and I gazed again upon that ravaged beauty. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not the beauty her mother was, though she resembled her in spirit, at least, for she raised her eyes to him boldly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A beauty supply store with racks of wigs in the window, a carpet store, a Laundromat, an electronics store, a currency exchange. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The core of beauty is color, Maman used to remind me when I complained about her exercises. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Their home was a Babylonian garden of beauty. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The woman is huge and blond and puffy like a 1950s beauty queen gone to seed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the ovens seemed things of beauty, and every worker in the shop a skilled and witty fellow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Being from District 4, he was a Career, so the odds were already in his favor, but what no trainer could claim to have given him was his extraordinary beauty. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z "Mother says he needs his beauty sleep," Belet answered, and to give her credit, she didn't sound entirely happy with her mother's strategy in finding Nergal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It was just the time when she slept, the time when she stalked and killed, the time when the stars emerged with glittering beauty and made her feel wonderfully small and insignificant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But the doctors, her mother, even her coworkers at the beauty parlor finally persuaded Felicia to send Ivanito to boarding school. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My father has always placed a great deal of importance on his daughters' physical beauty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His physical beauty astonished all who saw him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I enter the beauty salon wearing really big sunglasses, like one of those women on TV who's just been given a black eye by her husband. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was the smile, though, that transformed her into a real beauty. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally she led me to a small beauty parlor she owned, not far from Speed’s Grocery. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What better place to view all this glory, all this beauty? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z This idea of Kang’s, the use of the red and white slip . . . could it be of such newness and beauty that it would mean a commission? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But this natural beauty was invisible to us behind Pollsmoor’s high concrete walls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I think my mom might have been pretty once, but the years devoured her youth, beauty, and enthusiasm for anything with an alcohol content of less than 12 percent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I am proud of these people not because of their color but because of their intelligence and their spiritual force and their beauty. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z She respected the beauty of the land the way all humans are meant to. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I push the arcana to reset the proteins, as I would her bones for beauty work. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But from the very first people were won instantly to Aron by his beauty and his simplicity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “She walks in beauty, like the night,” Ben quoted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gregor the Overlander, think you my beauty is of any matter in such times?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That is why she returns to the beauty shop, time and time again, to have her ringlets seared. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sister had married the ideal in masculine beauty, the thin scholar with the hollow cheeks and the long fingers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It is a lovely country; full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave, and strong, and simple, and seem full of nice qualities. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “That’s the spirit! This beauty is from one of the hardest trees I ever chewed. I just need to make a few modifications.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Brown just like me, with shiny, wavy hair like the ladies that come out of the beauty parlor on Saturdays. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z With that the man dashed out of the room and Mrs Wormwood, sighing deeply, went to the telephone to call the beauty parlour. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Bertha paraded me around like I was a beauty queen, introducing me to everybody and making on over me and saying how lucky she and Gus were to have me staying with them. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z This, though, would be missing the subtle beauty of their relationship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “She’s the one piece of beauty among all this ugly” Suzanne sits next to her daughter and catches me in the mirror. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Like a greedy child gorging on clusters of grapes, the Angel of Death tore all of the beauty and dignity from a person and left behind a terrible, dripping mess. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Pauline kept this order, this beauty, for herself, a private world, and never introduced it into her storefront, or to her children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I slip back into beauty creams, hoping they don’t see me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For a few minutes they just satin the grass, ¡staring up at the beauty of the night sky. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "Now, my dearest court, cast your coins before I reveal the favorite. Let us see if we've picked the same Belle. May you always find beauty." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her girlfriends had sought to concoct dates for her; she was widely encouraged to make use of her beauty and to emerge from the shell of her apparent shyness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mother’s beauty made her powerful and her power made her unflinchingly honest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not see beauty in the llano and she could not understand the coarse men who lived half their lifetimes on horseback. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Those little ninety-nine-cent chains he bought at the beauty supply store didn’t count. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he were somehow responsible for her beauty and stature, as if he'd personally designed her spots and trained her to grow to the size of a pony. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She almost smiles from the pain—from the beauty of it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Amazed, bumbled by the beauty and devotion of this community to its local spirits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Burnham had devoted the last two years of his life to creating an impression of monumental beauty, and now Olmsted wanted to make visitors laugh. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But then he too began to look at the Lady of O, wondering if indeed this was such mortal beauty as the old tales told of. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z While I gloried in the beauty of these buildings, I was ambivalent about what they represented. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew they were close when the beauty of their surroundings was jarred by the loud weeping and wailing of distraught family members. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Here! ‘When a snowflake melted,’ he said, ‘that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone.’ Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “She’s laughing, Reggie! This friendship could turn into romance after all! It is a thing of beauty watching these two open up to each other!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Miyax was a classic Eskimo beauty, small of bone and delicately wired with strong muscles. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Lulled by the warm sun, cool shade, and birdsong, he trekked onwards, thinking of nothing in particular and enjoying the sense of freedom amid so much beauty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Hadn’t he understood the power of that, the beauty? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. Poseidon was punishing her mother for bragging about her daughter’s beauty.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Offstage, Marian’s quiet beauty and unaffected charm had always attracted suitors, and that was the case in Berlin. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Yes, Africa has many problems, but there is so much beauty, so much goodness too. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I want you to show people in America the beauty of Pakistan. They don’t know this place like you do now.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z This was, in and of itself, an argument for the weight and beauty of our culture and thus of our bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Each month, Keav would travel with Ma to a beauty salon to have her hair styled and her nails painted. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Have a closer look, Camellia. You must be too far away to judge her beauty accurately," Sophia says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Both the old artist and the former beauty had long forgotten his misdeed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I’d been mesmerized by her beauty and just the idea of her—I didn’t know I was supposed to talk to her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z You will never forget what it means to walk in beauty. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Here she found beauty, order, cleanliness, and praise. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to show the beauty of our people, that we are not all banditos like they show on TV, munching cuchfritos and sipping beer through chipped teeth. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was order and beauty in the world of bees. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never seen a beautiful woman dressed to match her beauty but once in his life: that Lady of O who had come with her Lord to the Sunreturn festival at Roke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The wrong of her slighted beauty remained with her until Troy fell in ruins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In describing my mother, I say, “Her beauty is the kind which seems to be thrown into relief by grief?’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A woman seen in the mirror of a beauty parlor, half her hair wound neatly in curlers, the other half streaming loose in a tousled swirl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Whatever her name, what she stood for was always the same—love and beauty and every kind of perfection. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t she a beauty?” says the master-at-arms—that grizzled, muscular career seaman, covered in leering skeletal tattoos. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This time it was a subtle promise, a tantalizing hint of beauty still withheld, a beckoning to her spirit to follow she knew not where. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His beauty was so great, all the girls who saw him longed to be his, but he would have none of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no luck with movie theaters, so I decided to try beauty parlors. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop off these soggy clumps to make my hair even again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They ask my thoughts on the latest beauty laws. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I might have commented on the beauty of the sight had I not become accustomed to reading Farmer’s face. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She still had big dreams—maybe she could become an entrepreneur, open a beauty salon or her own fashion company. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And the beauty and delicacy of the cultural riches of those bloodthirsty centuries are nothing short of miraculous. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then he tilted back his head and began to sing: There is a little beauty In the op’ning of a flower. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Eating the roots of beauty is a—” Madame Crommelynck sank back into her creaky throne, tired out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My middle name, Tree, comes from your basic tree, a thing of such beauty to my mother that she made it part of my name. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z "I meant to do you honor. An homage to your beauty. In truth, I was made to sing for kings and high lords." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He brings his sense of beauty and aesthetics and discernment of character to the staging of Truman shows. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He checked the directory and dialed a long-distance call through to the biggest beauty parlor in New Texas City. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the rest of us, she wanted to serve suppers, and scold servants, and set aside money in her almari to have her eyebrows threaded every three weeks at the Chinese beauty parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My mom had been called in from the beauty parlor and was still wearing the white smock with her name, FRAN, embroidered on the front. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to new Lady ’Stache Off with triple beauty action™, there’s also Lady 'Stache Off Organic with bonus buffing pad. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Time had encircled her softly, enriched and deepened her beauty as the years tiptoed past her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything, from their love of beauty and mystery, to their fascinating habit of getting married when they were only eleven years old, made good stuff to talk about. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seldom have I seen such grace, such beauty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I flip back to the spread about Miss Rose-Meta and her beauty salon in Harlem. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I also had features in women’s publications like Glamour, Refinery29, and Allure, where I was able to talk about my own self-confidence and beauty ideals. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They are his contact with the supplies that keep life going; they hold the beauty that his soul longs for; they hold the unattainable that he can only dream and wish for. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “One week before, we agreed ‘What is beauty?’ is a question unanswerable, yes? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But boys being boys, and Lula being a beauty, it was not. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps he had been in some kind of trouble in France, or perhaps he had been drawn to Kenya by the beauty of the country. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My beauty caisse is set up behind me, fanned open so the medley of instruments inside twinkle in the subtle light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Was there some other object of beauty in the room? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Its beauty and ability to be easily shaped make it ideal for jewelry. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But these babies, these beauties, have no idea what it means to wait. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’ll come down after I get me some more beauty rest.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But the laws also protect the accused, and that is the wonder and beauty of the American system of justice. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The day before Mr. Chris came home from the hospital, Marly found the first spring beauty. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “What is that thing? It looks like the most busted beauty queen ever,” Nicole whispered, and no one was sure which one she meant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Some had made scars on their bodies as a sign of beauty. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t she know she too fat to be in a beauty pageant?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules Du Barry made me swallow down about fraternizing with men and boys outside of beauty work vanish. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson—paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A cool shadow crossed my face and I arose, whistled for Frightful to come to my hand, and wandered slowly home, stuffing my pockets with spring beauty bulbs as I went. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Well-organized handwriting blocks note lady courtiers' names, their beauty services and secrets, and tips to tackling unforeseen treatment challenges, like stubborn moles and missing bones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Each of them is their own brand of beauty. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z At such moments I don’t think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She was much paler than she had been; so pale that hardly any of her beauty was left. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Was the golden carp a god of beauty, a god of here and now like Cico said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt sat perfectly still, entranced by the bird’s beauty. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, I am struck by the beauty of this place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Soon we were on to the beauty school to get my hair washed and pressed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Except when he danced with the blond beauty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I was born with dark skin, but in my culture, light skin is considered a sign of beauty, so Mom wrote in my song that I would become fairer skinned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z John did not find Meg’s beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He was accustomed to staring at Lavinia Lyte’s famous beauty and to feel a pleasant tingle up and down his spine. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After our thirteenth birthday, we moved on from using our teacup dogs and the stray teacup cats that lurk on the grounds to enlisting our servants as subjects of our beauty work. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They were friends and fellow Marines and I wished they could have enjoyed some of the beauty and peace that was around me at Pearl. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was very cool toward Frightful until he learned that she was the best provider we had ever had in our family, and then he continually praised her beauty and admired her talents. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t matter where she’s from,” said a girl with fancy curls that looked like they were done in a beauty parlor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I follow the stream to the falls, a beauty that splashes down an eighty-foot staircase. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize that we two are the same, struggling to survive in this place of cement where beauty is hiding hiding. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The life where she was pretty and popular and a beauty queen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It was not only that her beauty moved him but that they already had a history together that included this beach, these waters, the very stones, and the forest at their backs, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The hero gazes out at the pain and beauty contained in the twinkling lights of the metropolis. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There in the last end of Egladil upon the green grass the parting feast was held; but Frodo ate and drank little, heeding only the beauty of the Lady and her voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If I skipped a meal, he lectured me, telling me I shouldn’t listen to outsiders and their skewed views on beauty. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The city is known for its beauty—the glistening Lake Tanganyika, the winding Kalimabenge River—and also for its conflicts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maribel had the kind of beauty that reduced people to simpletons. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Because she had so many beauty supplies it always smelled sweet and creamy. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z From his artist’s fingers sprang objects of such wonderful beauty—cups, bowls, boxes, necklaces, daggers, great golden collars, bracelets, exquisite amulets—that Pharaoh himself would be served by no other smith. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He is there for the light, the warmth, and the famous beauty of the women—the Arlésiennes, with their classic looks and bright clothes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Life was all pattern and discipline; and the beauty of discipline is when it works. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Only then did I remember what the beauty of the meadow had driven from my mind — the enigma of Edward and the sun, which he’d promised to illustrate for me today. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I like to think I make up for the rather significant, err...beauty gap in other ways. Devilish charm and impeccable character, for instance.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The physical and mental characteristics that had so entranced Galton—height, weight, beauty, intelligence—were merely the outer shadows of genetic characteristics lurking underneath. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her role developed from a pattern of talk she often heard from bored, well-to-do white women where she worked, in an East Side beauty salon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican songs were constantly punctuated by irrelevant spotshots nobody listened to, such as the “German Press Review” and a show featuring a well-known beauty queen talking to teen-agers about their diets and their pimples. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew it was Fayge because, even with her hair shorn, her face the color of an old book, and wearing a shapeless brown print dress, Fayge had an unearthly beauty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mariposas swirled and twirled around us like dark snowflakes in the surreal light of dusk, making the moment almost magical in its beauty. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Surely some people, somewhere know what beauty is? At a university?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Madrina claims that she was a beauty queen back in her day in San Juan. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The only thing Seabiscuit took seriously, aside from his beauty rest, was eating, which he did constantly, with great vigor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She wants to take him up to the seat on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “They gave her wonderful things: a fancy shawl, a silver dress, beauty—” Ben interrupted. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She knew she was no beauty, never had been, but she was a fierce worker. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I wrote every day, and I’ve kept a journal since then, with poems about my pet goldfish, the weather, food, and most recently, love, heartbreak, and beauty, or lack thereof. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Something about infinite beauty, about undying grace, about things larger and greater than ourselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It is worth quoting at length: As I entered through the so-called “gates of the Sun,” I was immediately confronted with the brilliant beauty of the city, and my eyes were filled with pleasure. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z "I couldn't allow that, my lady. I don't have a beauty token. Plus, I have an appointment at the Silk Teahouse for late Saturday night. That's when they do servants." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The Savoy, the Golden Gate, and the Renaissance ballrooms battled for the crowds—the Savoy introduced such attractions as Thursday Kitchen Mechanics’ Nights, bathing beauty contests, and a new car given away each Saturday night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Thorold was an elderly man, but he was healthy and vigorous, and he felt flattered by the attention of this young witch and her beauty, as any man would. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Kat lifts the double-layer beauty from its hiding place under the table. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She thinks of an article she read at the beauty salon, by a Jewish lady who survived a concentration camp. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An aesthetic response or experience concerns the nature of beauty, art, and taste. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z By then Mom had already gone to the beauty parlor and left me a pill to take and a note telling me to just stay indoors all day. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran to save Ultima and I ran to preserve those moments when beauty mingled with sadness and flowed through my soul like the stream of time. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She embraces all that is love and beauty. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Beyond the mountains, green hills and brown deserts and blue lakes came together in a mosaic of beauty. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Minister of Justice ruled the case accidental—her private doctor confirmed she'd had health challenges before having beauty work done. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn’t look like anybody else’s idea of beauty.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Harry dried his hands, impervious to the beauty of the scene outside the window and to the murmuring of the others in the sitting room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But the one thing that puts our little town on the map is that we’re home of the oldest beauty pageant in Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In youth she had been so thoroughly beautiful that her beauty had been public property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For Dawn in silks of gold carried off Kleitos for his beauty to live among the gods. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am mean and I am cheap. Sometimes I am a coward and often times I’m selfish. I ain’t a beauty to look at. But I am not vile, shameful, base, or depraved!” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The next day I bought a bunch of beauty magazines and started to study what I needed to do to be beautiful on the outside. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z How much beauty had he missed in his lifetime? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z At Hampden she was thought something of a beauty but I loathed her lolloping, spaniel-like walk and her little-girl voice—very affected, it seemed to me—which degenerated frequently into a whine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they bum bright with beauty." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She turned and preened in the air, ran her fingers through her hair, and examined herself as if delighted by her own beauty all over again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Now that my eyes have adjusted to the light, I can see that the plants in this room were selected for beauty, not practicality—flowers and ivy and clusters of purple or red leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Like an etching in the air that slowly filled with beauty, Sarai was gathered out of nothingness and bound back into being. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “My friend, you know that beauty enchants men’s souls and makes them lust for pleasure. Why, look upon Diana, whose many beauties distracted Actaeon from his hunting.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She wasn’t put off by April’s beauty or presence, the kind of thing that made some women uncomfortable. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “It’s okay to be addicted to beauty,” Mom says, all dreamy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The beauty was breathtaking, the lake absolutely still. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The fair was so perfect, its grace and beauty like an assurance that for as long as it lasted nothing truly bad could happen to anyone, anywhere. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I could no more choose to live in such beauty than run for Parliament. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The tidy green-painted Newsome Park shopping center included a grocery store, a drugstore, a barbershop, a beauty shop, a beer joint, a cleaners, and a TV repair shop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Well, now you do. You see, this is the beauty of starting a new family. You can have different kinds of family members.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She no longer saw any beauty in a world muffled in white. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I adored and despised her height and beauty and the oniony sheen of her skin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought she was the beauty pageant lady.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I slam the book shut and tuck it back into its hiding place in my beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It would awaken the nation to the power of architecture to conjure beauty from stone and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A young woman was standing in the doorway, a woman of such breathtaking beauty that the room seemed to have become strangely airless. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I waited for her to tell me she was ready for beauty work. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was a clear and sparkling day when the Yaks arrived, and the young pilots of the 586th were thrilled at the dangerous beauty of their new snow-white planes against the snowy landscape. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “She is endowed with beauty,” Old Granny said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy who wants to know something about the grace, elegance and beauty of Euclid can go nowhere but up. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I hear you got some of your friends to join the pageant with you. You better make sure they know it’s a beauty contest and not a livestock show.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Any ambivalence he’d felt about killing these beauty queens had been erased by this one’s relentless campaign against him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She pushed down the hood of her cloak and looked directly at him, letting the full force of her beauty and rank pour upon him like a waterfall. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A simple exercise but he loved the ordered lines, the neatness, the stark beauty of planes and angles. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the beauty in who she is and where she comes from. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She remembered the green of a few weeks back, the kind of green made to announce the beauty of the sky behind it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Up until Mrs. Henry came along, I’d believed beauty college would be the upper limit of my career. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how hard I try, though, I keep seeing the bloated face of that aging beauty queen bouncing off the lights into my father’s outstretched hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "But I admit it—the place has a certain beauty. I can see what appealed to Chris." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet there had once been a beauty and grandeur about this place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "What kind of God is that, who would write such sad songs? Why would He make us suffer—for a beauty we can't even see?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn’t worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "With your blood, Camellia, we will usher in a new form of beauty work that will make the kingdom millions of leas and billions of spintria." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z My wife assured me that, as our love grew, so would our beauty. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Everyone would be masked, at the beginning at least, although most would unmask quickly so he could admire their beauty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The nights at Mobius have an eeriness about them, a soundless, otherworldly beauty, interrupted only by a chance howl or hoot in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z "Ten, Khaleesi, because you are so lovely. Use it for a looking glass. Only brass this fine could capture such beauty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Already, the narratives are being written: Scrappy beauty queens survive in hostile jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Ladybird smiled and waved a stiff hand in a beauty queen salute. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She did indeed rise from the dead every spring, but she brought with her the memory of where she had come from; with all her bright beauty there was something strange and awesome about her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For two hours, Harriet recounted the story of how she was torn from her family and sold “for her beauty” in the New Orleans market when she was fourteen years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “This isn’t very complicated, Tally. You have had a change of heart. You have decided to run away, following your friend Shay. Just another ugly escaping the tyranny of beauty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I stopped and sat on the wall, and faced the pagoda and appreciated its bizarre, out-of-place beauty. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She performed a few high kicks, stretched her long limbs, then settled under a tree to get her beauty sleep. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Finally we stop in front of a black hair care and beauty supply store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z From dawn to dawn there was not a cloud, and at night the stars hung out of the sky, golden and cruel in their beauty. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Swat was known for its beauty, and tourists came from all over to see its tall mountains, lush green hills, and crystal-clear rivers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Lyra saw them flashing overhead and felt a pang of relief that there was still something that darted and glowed with beauty. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And I thought, the power of God failed where Ultima’s worked; and then a sudden illumination of beauty and understanding flashed through my mind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To Ranofer, lightheaded with hunger and triumph, all the world seemed tinged with remarkable beauty. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Amazing beauty and he wished he could share it with somebody and say, “Look there, and over there, and see that...” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She’ll go just long enough to save money to fix up her mother’s house and add on a room for her own beauty parlor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Yet even as I write it is cooled, and it seemeth to shrink, though it loseth neither its beauty nor its shape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Think of gold infused on silver by a craftsman, whose fine art Hephaistos taught him, or Athena: one whose work moves to delight: just so she lavished beauty over Odysseus’ head and shoulders. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If ever there was a place where a woman would putter around, patting mud packs on her face and sitting under a drier, it would be a velvetsoft, diamond-gem beauty parlor! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked me to show people the beauty of Pakistan. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z There was only one flaw to her marble beauty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And so after gazing on the beauty of his children’s faces, he lifted them out of the bed and carried them back to their own room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her eye darts to Veturius standing behind me, and she smiles, a blaze of white that startles me with its beauty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The physical beauty of the Smoke also cleared her mind of worries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Lucinda is still sleeping her beauty sleep that will last all morning long. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt had to take her down to the grown-up beauty parlor but they couldn’t do a whole lot with it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And when I looked around, I saw that a flurry of magnificent mariposas swarmed around us as we stood waiting on the summit of the hill, awed by the surreal beauty that surrounded us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She had an extra hour daily which she was devoting to the novel she was writing to prove to Miss Garnder, the new English teacher, that she did know about beauty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I shall teach him my native language and tell him of the beauties of my homeland. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that he drove twice a week to all the local beauty parlors and barbershops, collecting their sweepings and arranging them, strand by strand, as carefully as a wren. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He spoiled them so much that the younger two girls did little all day but sit before the mirror, gazing at their own beauty and pinching their cheeks to make them red. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I wondered if her great beauty and massive fortune were enough to protect her from a lifetime of torture? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Most of her makeup had transferred itself to his own face or the bolster, but a light stain of rouge still brought out the beauty of her cheekbone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was much that was lovely, good, and freeing in this worship under the open sky and the ecstasy of joy it brought in the wild beauty of the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The gods of Olympus loved order and beauty in their sacrifices and their temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A prunus vase, with a plum branch to complete its beauty—his dream of making one returned, stronger than ever now, for it would be more than a dream. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The note is pressed flat on the lid of my beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z For most of us, the periodic table is a thing of beauty in the abstract, but for chemists it established an immediate orderliness and clarity that can hardly be overstated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She looked better with a little mud—less like a beauty queen and more like an actual get-your-hands-dirty kind of person. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It always started with the itch, and the beauty queen stifled a small cry. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Edgar Lee Masters, Chicago attorney and emerging poet, called the Court “an inexhaustible dream of beauty.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Besides the workday was lightened and shortened by moments of fun, by words of praise like those of Ben’s, by the endless wonder and beauty of the woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I maintain,” said Horatio, “that a woman’s beauty leads her lover’s soul to higher goodness.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “But she made it,” I encouraged, looking away from the unbearable beauty of his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z At twenty-one, long before ill-fitting dentures and self-imposed invalidism, my grandmother was something of a beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It would probably be a mistake, however, to conclude thereby that McCandless failed to appreciate the beauty of the country around him, that he was unmoved by the power of the landscape. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its tranquil beauty mocked the relative prosperity peasant families had enjoyed for centuries, before the dam was built. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Her beauty struck fear into their hearts and they preferred to admire her from afar, not daring to approach her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Former beauty queens will attempt to reclaim their titles, and no one will suspect a thing until the talent competition, when they offer their renditions of "Sonny Boy" and "Ain't We Got Fun." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All through the long night when he had left the palace she seemed to see him, his beauty and his grace, and to hear the words he had uttered. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Euclid brings us grace and beauty and elegance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The beauty of the Fugees’ new home was so extraordinary that it almost seemed like a joke. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The Great Mosque of Mecca, when it is finished, will surpass the architectural beauty of India’s Taj Mahal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see the real meaning of beauty, and it ain’t got nothing to do with having light skin and a little waist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But for a moment the intense loneliness and beauty of the open alpine setting held him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On this night, he thought of all the dead Marines he had known and not known, and he loved all of them; the beauty and loss of this night moved him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Though of course we both have our natural beauty, as the hippopotamus said to the rat.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was a clear, cool day and I reveled in the beauty of the Natal countryside; even in winter, Natal remains green. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking at his lost beauty in the bed and pretending not to do so. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Speed, strength, beauty, pale skin, eyes that shift color; and then Jacob’s criteria: blood drinkers, enemies of the werewolf, cold-skinned, and immortal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Though I didn’t deserve it, I wanted to rise to heaven remembering something of beauty from the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He took his place at the table beside the fireplace and, swayed happily by his teacher’s mood, savored the flavor of the food, the beauty of candle and firelight, the joy of close companionship. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And Samar, every spring night, reminded me there is beauty in stillness and grace in acceptance. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Though of great age, its metal shone clear and untarnished, and its very plainness had the beauty of true nobility. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t cut so excellent a figure when I’m vomiting. I bend from the waist, and it interrupts the line of beauty.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Sure is a beauty,” he said as he pulled the car back into the lane for the third time. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Over the sheets was spilled the earth and leaves and the poor little pink spring beauty. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z "I heard the queen wants to extend royal beauty restrictions to high-house courtiers. All of us might have to settle for a single definitive look," one woman says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He admired her odd, strong beauty which, unlike her regal gait, was not of the fashionable type. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the fulfillment of their search for beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I went from contemplating the natural beauty to ruminating on the fact that the railway line, being so close to the highway, offered a convenient place for sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The plane crash. The Miss Teen Dream beauty queens on the other side of the island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And just ’cause we don’t look like beauty queens doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enter.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The colt was a descendant of the mighty Man o’ War through his sire, the brilliantly fast, exceptionally handsome Hard Tack, but his stunted build reflected none of the beauty and breadth of his forebears. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely if she could keep the girl at hard labor and half starve her, too, that hateful beauty of hers would soon be lost. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees were aptly named after beauty—their wood wasn’t just supple and strong, it was a lovely, glowing red. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Today, alas, you have to squint, and pretty hard at that, to get any notion of the tranquil beauty that attracted Innes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In terms of power, though, beauty is like glass, isn’t it? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I don't explain that I don't count by 7s anymore, but I do still appreciate the beauty of the number. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Now the joy of beauty is gone from her life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor led Adina to the arsenal the girls had made in the jungle weeks before, and Adina cleared away vines and leaves from the catapult, the cannon, the stash of beauty product weapons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then at the beauty supply store near it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She felt dispirited and, while Curt watched a game that evening, she drove to the beauty supply store and ran her fingers through small bundles of silky straight weaves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z These were important engineering milestones, but what visitors adored was the sheer beauty of seeing so many lights ignited in one place, at one time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost— good manners, ease and beauty? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Complementary to her understated beauty, my father fell in love with my mother’s enthusiasm for life and her love of children. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I divided my eyes between all the streets, an insatiable spectator incapable of taking in such beauty in its entirety. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Will I be able to help the people of Orléans discover their beauty and make my mother proud? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z For them it might stave off what he could not help but see with clarity: that the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The beauty queen leans into him outside a stereo place that’s blasting, incredibly, “Stop in the Name of Love.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Remember the rumbling we all felt under the beauty of Paris, as though the city had been built in abeyance of Pompeii. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, see, now that’s the beauty of being under the Slip Kid’s protection,” Mike said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z You find in your Western civilization that when a man’s wife’s physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of gold infused on silver by a craftsman, whose fine art Hephaistos taught him, or Athena: one whose work moves to delight: just so she lavished beauty over Odysseus’ head and shoulders. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You might turn out to be a beauty after all,” she said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Her Royal Highness sent word that you were trying to lift your beauty caisse. Du Barry warned that you were stubborn and a bit unruly. But doing the servants' work, young lady?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "So that's that. If there's any trouble about it, say I let you off early to go to the teahouse. Tell them I'm a tyrant about beauty." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Greek art reached a pinnacle of beauty as respect for the individual flourished in Athens, and Roman relics attest to the might of the greatest empire in the ancient world. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z He chose a satin tunic striped black and gold and a fine leather jerkin with silver studs . . . and only then remembered that his wretched sister put more stock in blades than beauty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it interesting,” Mr. Birkway said, “to find both? Isn’t it interesting to discover that snowy woods could be death and beauty and even, I sup-pose, sex? Wow! Literature!” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was as if she knew that proximity to such famous beauty was reward enough for any boy or man in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that she went through her beauty routine, a cleansing, creaming ritual, which on Saturday nights included washing her hair. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to cry, but then, in the next instant, I wanted to laugh, because the statue also made me feel like Lily the Smiled-Upon, like there was goodness and beauty in me, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Spencer women have never won beauty pageants. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Some long-buried part of me understands that this is beauty, but I am unable to wonder at it, the way I did when I was a boy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There’s me split in half—Japanese and white—stitching myself together again because I am whole only when I’ve embraced the true beauty of my heritage. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In all ages, rich, energetic, and successful nations, when they have carved their place in the world, have felt hunger for art, for culture, even for learning and beauty. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently, a tall, burly man with hideous vertical scars on his face —tribal beauty marks—and a left shoulder decidedly lower than the right, came by. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was safe from hatred and disappointment and death. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And he stared at her and at the shadowed hollows of her face and he thought again how there was no beauty in her and how for many years had he not desired her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And for a moment, she was more undone by this girl’s beauty than by the carnivorous snake. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They lived in houses ten times larger and grander than Mr. Cheyney's and consorted with ladies of elegance and beauty. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z All agree that he was a youth of surpassing beauty and that this was the cause of his singular fate. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They had their helmets off and they looked like a row of beauty queens. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister was brilliant and charming and a beauty, just like my mother had been. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Now that the Witch was no longer in the same room with him he was quickly forgetting how she had frightened him and thinking more and more of her wonderful beauty. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt I could see through to something pure inside them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the snapshot of the girl on the bike followed me, a haunting thing of beauty I knew would break around the next bend, sure as a glass slipping from my hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It did still have several churches and a few beauty parlors, but they were rarely open. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I asked for Barbie dolls, children’s beauty and nail supplies, stuffed animals, a new bike, and Rollerblades. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The isolation must be their desire; I couldn’t imagine any door that wouldn’t be opened by that degree of beauty. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Also, if we destroy too much of the natural world, we shall be depriving those who live after us of much beauty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z "This is beauty. Touch it. Go on. Caress the fabric." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t believe it was possible to hide a woman’s beauty. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It feels strange to be in the center of all this beauty when so much ugliness has been happening. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was awed by the beauty and elegance of the physical world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He shivered and his eyes were wet the way they get in the focus of great beauty. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “This little beauty’s taught us more than all the teachers in this school.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “So what do you like to do for fun? What is your idea of beauty?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z On foggy mornings, Charlotte’s web was truly a thing of beauty. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z But there was no beauty here, no real merriment or joy, just transactions, people seeking escape or some colorful oblivion, some dream of decadence that they could wake from whenever they wished. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She bends to her special beauty, the butterfly orchid she smuggled back from Hawaii two years ago. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This had struck me as better than I would manage, since I was probably headed for beauty school now. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Pythagoras concluded that ratios govern not only music but also all other types of beauty. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even Lurvy, who wasn’t particularly interested in beauty, noticed the web when he came with the pig’s breakfast. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Every time you use new Lady ’Stache Off with triple beauty action™, you’re contributing to our economy, our way of life. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I think of how he moved when he fought with Aquilla, that sensual beauty that took my breath away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Its beauty lay in its simplicity, the plainness of its curve; even its wooden scabbard was spare and plain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But on her face is the beauty of the morning, and for the first time, I think, she recognizes it: 5:30 a.m. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The motif of a young woman contemplating her beauty goes all the way back to antiquity, but rarely has it been depicted with such disturbing Overtones. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Their unspeakable beauty may have as much to do with the sense of a lost world as it does with Strauss’s final gesture of love and gratitude to his wife of over fifty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, do not be ashamed. Many a young lady has had all her beauty dimmed by smallpox. You are fortunate.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They laugh, them girls, they laugh in the river, and they fix they hair for beauty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The beauty of my rendition was that it captured both the joy and the sorrow of a visit to Ellisburg's or J. C. Penney. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In beauty, history, and communal meaning, it rivaled, if not surpassed, any church in the white community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines; even the lips had lost their deadly pallor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Sept. 18.1 asked Mama could I get a Castle Clip and she said no that hair was a woman’s crowning beauty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was empowering to help dismantle the definitions of beauty that too often erased women of color and almost never included hijabi women. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The river was sparkling under a cloudless sky, and Tally allowed herself to be swept away by the beauty of New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "Did you help pass the current beauty laws?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This was not my first trip to the European mainland, but I was still entranced by the beauties of the Old World. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Looked at another way, it is a work of art, an expression of the human spirit, with its unbounded hunger for the ideal, for beauty, for purity, for grace. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “There’s so much beauty and strength in our history,” she’d say as she’d recite the works of black people who had come before us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie walked to Alvarado Street several times a week to stand in front of the window and look at this beauty. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Derek saw it as well, the beauty, and Brian was glad that he could see it, see not just the bad parts but the good as well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I kept replaying the walk to the bus stop, her proud bearing, the men’s stares, their promises, and the nakedness her accessible beauty made me feel. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I was never a beauty,” she said, touching her face, “but now I would not trade with the goddess Nuwa.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If she had come out more often, sat on the stoop or gossiped in front of the beauty shop, she would have known more than what the paper said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The queen has told me much and more of your beauty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It lighted every peak, crevasse, and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Amber sits in front of a mirror with her beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But as I journey into night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Eugenia helped run a beauty supply store farther down in East Oakland, out past Fruitvale, and she’d been there for over a decade, they learned. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And then there's the unrealistic beauty standards that we have to measure up to. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z And now, with new Lady 'Stache Off’s triple beauty action™, you can moisturize and self-tan while you rip that unsightly hair from every pore. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It embarrasses me to think that skin color should have anything to do with supposed beauty, but that is the culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Because every ninth night, eight gold arm-rings of equal beauty will drip from it. You can reward people with them, or store them, and your wealth will increase.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z For seconds, a full minute, he let the beauty of the sunset flood him, his brain blank, just pulling it in. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did! It’s such a beauty and I always wanted a blue Oldsmobile when we lived in Cuba. Now we’re in America and I have one.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z James Martineau preached that the gospels could transform an individual into a believer just through their beauty, not through strict, traditional belief in every word of the Bible. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Catelyn had no love for swords, but she could not deny that Ice had its own beauty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Newton was always generous to his family, and Catherine was a great beauty and excellent housekeeper. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come into the moonlight, for I wish only to behold your beauty and your wit, which you possess in such abundance, it stops my heart.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I told you,” Wash said, reaching for her face, “that there was beauty here.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Not only because her uncle’s light-complexioned face had none of her mother’s beauty but also because there was an earthiness about him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “So beauty to you is what’s palatable to everyone else? You’re drawing what you think everyone wants to see?” he asks gently. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Spends most of her time in the Chinese restaurant or the beauty parlor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z But her beauty and stillness broke the balance in me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I’m sure that if my host had seen my envy he would have loaned me the beauty, but I didn’t ask. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just make me two braids, Reba. I’m going to have to go to the beauty shop. Today. Oh, and I need something to wear.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She sang about social issues like the environment and criticized beauty standards! The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “A girl does not need to flaunt her beauty to the world,” her mother had told her many times. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z They were so enthralled by the beauty and brilliance of the rainbow that they forgot to keep their voices low any longer. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The beauty of the Lady of the Keep confused his mind, and in this rich, seemly, orderly, strange Court, he felt himself to be a goatherd born and bred. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I finally found him standing in front of the beauty parlor, staring through the glass at a woman with a drier over her head. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed strange that there could be so much color and beauty, and then when you got to Malone everything was tan and gray and black steel bars and wire. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z By mid-December, Haldar cleared all the unsold merchandise off the shelves of his beauty shop and hauled them in boxes up to the storage room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She was one of three sisters, and she was renowned for her beauty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It’s all science and beauty and nature, minus the messed-up stuff of the human world. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes it gives me a bad rash first, but that’s the price of beauty, right?** Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “With this gift of innocence and beauty, we honor both the gods,” he proclaimed, as the warships of the Iron Fleet rowed past the burning ketch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A sea dragon roared up from the waves with a maiden of extraordinary beauty by its side, her arm extended as if she had just caught something. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She was beautiful, but it was a fearsome kind of beauty, like the mirrored edge of a finely crafted blade. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The companies not only advertised in the newspapers, they issued booklets and broadsides describing and picturing the beauty and richness of the West. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She swayed upon her little feet and to Wang Lung there was nothing so wonderful for beauty in the world as her pointed little feet and her curling helpless hands. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was just being what it was, a mindless, merciless star that would shine on whatever got in its way, beauty or horror, without prejudice, with equal heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neglect! I am sure you neglect nothing that can add to the beauties of that noble place. Charles, when you build your house, I wish it may be half as delightful as Pemberley.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Presently Penelope from her chamber stepped in her thoughtful beauty. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her beauty was the talk of the valley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In the mirror, half of her face is perfect beauty, and the other half is horrific, rearranged, red. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z She waits until the moon is propitious, then calls Graciela on the telephone, inviting her to the beauty shop for a free permanent. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She gazed in her mirror, lamenting her increasing age and her declining beauty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Nothing to you? When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Because of her great beauty, the emperor himself had chosen her to be the next offering to Inti if the times demanded a human sacrifice. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Even dead it looked like a regal hawk, cracked and shattered, but with a beauty still inherent thanks to the feral grace of its lines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z "You've been giving the princess just what she wants. Wise plan, for now. But don't let your flame burn out, little beauty. You'll be in trouble." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The air was warm and heavy with the scent of flowers, and the woods here had a gentle beauty that Sansa had never seen in the north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So she asked me to go to her beauty parlor, her famous Mr. Rory. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "You have all morning tomorrow. You need your beauty dreams." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Americans are so nutty about physical appearance and what defines beauty. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Vincent is still able to look out into the world and see its beauty. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Only moments before, Pinmei had decided the horse was the pinnacle of beauty, but now she found herself reconsidering. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the whole divine company, with a very few and for the most part not important exceptions, were entrancingly beautiful with a human beauty, and nothing humanly beautiful is really terrifying. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Lots of people can’t find beauty in my neighborhood, but I can. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I feel a pang in my chest and remember a line from a poem I read a long time ago about terror being the beginning of beauty. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Celia tells Felicia that her job is still waiting for her at the beauty shop, but that she’ll have to start from the bottom again, sweeping hair clippings and doing shampoos. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The imaginary conversations were back, but much worse than they had been after Peris had left A thousand times she’d fought with Shay in her head—long, rambling discussions about beauty, biology, growing up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The captain was taken with the beauty of the metaphor, and let his silence imply surrender. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I drew two identical girls side by side, which he found even more baffling, given that Leah and I—the beauty and the beast—were the twins under consideration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman in the beauty parlor waved to me and I shot up real close to the window. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Once, while dancing a piece from Swan Lake, she’d cried, so overcome by the beauty of it that she felt as if she really were the dying swan. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was still a thing of beauty and strength. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z No amount of beauty work will erase the sour expression she always has on her face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Vincent has been eager to show Theo the stark beauty of the area; later he hopes to show him the drawings he's been making. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of psychology, of what people fear, losing their beauty? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In that long-ago time, the people who lived along this course worked at making pottery, and there was wonderful beauty in it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Actually, I figured out that running for office is a lot like being in a beauty pageant. Look good. Smile and wave. And tell the people only what they want to hear.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He was fifteen, and all he could see was Myra's shallow beauty. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z None had ever seen the Princess, but rumors of her beauty were continual and each was less possible than the one before. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He remembered standing in the Brazilian rain forest while on his voyage and being stirred by its beauty, moved to think of a higher power. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn’t beauty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They hold each other tightly and remark at its beauty, at how lucky they are to witness this once-in-a-lifetime cosmic marvel. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z "Eat up. You have another beauty appointment this afternoon." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I remember eavesdropping as a little girl while the Beauty Minister and Du Barry spoke in her office about beauty trends and body parts, and how much the masses should pay to be beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z While mesmerized by the beauty of the area, I was constantly rebuked by the buildings and streets that bear the names of white imperialists who suppressed the very people whose names belonged there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And cheerleaders aren’t too bad off either, but down here, the females who reign supreme are beauty queens. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z To my eyes, the birthmark did absolutely nothing to diminish her beauty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was such a beauty, I almost regretted having to launch it and see it shattered back on earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It seemed pretty appropriate to me, but having banged up Papa’s beauty it wasn’t for me to disagree. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Paris is alive with hope and beauty, joy and optimism. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "A dead enemy is a thing of beauty," he announced. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The ache and the beauty of Billie’s words captivate me, despite the ugly images they bring to mind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She thrusts the beauty key into my hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "What would you do for me? Give me an extra beauty treatment?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z By the time I’d finished my beauty work, it seemed a shame just to go to bed but that was obviously all there was to do. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Eva could have been married, not once but three different times even though, as Hannah’s mother had pointed out, she was no great beauty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To wish to make a life in that wasteland of rock and flame, you’d have to be a beast without a sense of beauty, hope, or joy. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z There it stood in all its wild beauty, a waving red banner in a carpet of green. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the Fashion Minister waits in the main salon for me after my first beauty appointment. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Though there were no gold or silver threads woven into her sari, she wore a sari of great rarity and beauty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom said, Look at that beauty—now that is a strong woman, keeping on while the going is rough. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z All my memories of Rose Hill are filled with her—her voice, her delicate beauty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Through the windshield I saw the mark of these ghettos—the abundance of beauty shops, churches, liquor stores, and crumbling housing—and I felt the old fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “The only one that needs beauty sleep is Chubs.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They weren’t supposed to remind him of beauty at all, realized Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “You never were going to win any beauty contests, so this should do.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I think that nowhere is the black continent’s wealth and the natural beauty of its people richer than in Ghana, which is so proudly the very fountainhead of Pan-Africanism. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Elihu Root said the fair led “our people out of the wilderness of the commonplace to new ideas of architectural beauty and nobility.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had always thought that Mary Anne had been harmed by the coldness of her father and the beauty of her mother. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Except in a story Homer and Hesiod tell, that Aglaia married Hephaestus, they are not treated as separate personalities, but always together, a triple incarnation of grace and beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “She'll probably last you another ten years. A real beauty if you ask me.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I wanted the fourteen-year-old boy who was completely blind to my inner beauty to give me validation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I wished I could go with them, but even more than curly fries and a look at the beauty queen carved life-sized in butter, I needed to work a few lawns today. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave Psyche a box which she was to carry to the underworld and ask Proserpine to fill with some of her beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran fast, but he was no match for the beauty queen’s youth and conditioning. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He writes to Theo only about art, about how he tries to see beauty in the bleak surroundings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was bewitched by its beauty, but he did as she said and put it straight back into the box, wrapped it up, and thrust it into the bottom of the rucksack. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We know that goblin women fight and rule alongside their men—hulking, ugly beasts, dreadfully unlike the beauties of our own elfin aristocracy, who are bred for their delicacy to be ornaments to society. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z She climbed out of bed and opened the shutters, and in the early morning light she marveled at the sheer beauty of the thing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z No book or music would have that beauty. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was great beauty here—almost unbelievable beauty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The bronze beauty was so strong in his head that it seemed to stand out in front of him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The clip-on cross earrings squeeze the life out of my earlobes, but beauty is pain, right? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z "Shouldn't we wait for our first official beauty appointment together?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z From darkness and from death Love was born, and with its birth, order and beauty began to banish blind confusion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the bookstall I traveled to mysterious places to meet ancient beauties or terrible monsters. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wander through the aisles of carefully pruned plants, looking but not touching, because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “One did not see the evil for the beauty,” he said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The contrast of this laughing, luxuriant beauty with the clear-cut, austere grandeur all around arrests the attention sharply. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “That cute, little fat girl is a beauty queen.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Olanna took after their mother, although hers was a more approachable beauty with the softer face and the smiling graciousness and the fleshy, curvy body that filled out her black dress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Even now, sixty years later, I still feel the beauty of that night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of row upon row of beauty products there was only a single rack of hygienic essentials. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Go down the street to the beauty supply and pick up some relaxer for me,” says my mother every two months or so. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bennet rejoiced to see Jane in undiminished beauty; and more than once during dinner did Mr. Bennet say voluntarily to Elizabeth: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z When the morning fog burned off and the sun was high, the beauty queens and the accidental pirates trudged through the waters to the beached ship to assess the damage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “What beauties! Like a party of ladies dressed in their best to go to a prince’s ball.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Fifi, there to meet us at the airport, is a jangle of bangles and a cascade of beauty parlor curls held back on one side very smartly by a big gold barrette. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And, oh, she was beautiful when she made a strike—all power and beauty. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true that here in Sacred Sun City, Chasca was one of many lovely Sun Maidens, but in my eyes she had an inner beauty that shone the most brightly of all. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It's full of speculation about the queen's toilette-box allotments and new beauty laws. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Out of sticks, palm fronds, salvaged shoes, glittery jewelry, two suitcase wheels, and evening gown scraps, Taylor had built a found- object beauty queen sculpture upon which she placed a scrawled sign for a sash. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag’s carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When she became a teenager, the quiet and beauty of the park was her solace when the rest of the world just seemed too overwhelming to handle. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z My beauty replied, ‘But not in this presentation, nor in this order.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is the beauty of small areas of order—a large yard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses—living together in contentious harmony. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He sent a flurry of wires to Howard, extolling the superb racing strip, mild fall weather, and general beauty of New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The wounds were deep, and he could see exposed muscles and tendons glisten yellow and pink in a devastating kind of beauty where the ragged flesh gaped open. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He prefers New York, a place which his parents do not know well, whose beauty they are blind to, which they fear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, what a beauty...look at that one now, I say, how pretty...Oh, that one didn't burst...take care, it’s coming our way...what are those men doing over there?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, she believes they have it within their power to build a bigger, better and more beautiful world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to true beauty. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The girls wandered over, drawn to the command her beauty bestowed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I listed again in my head the things I’d observed myself: the impossible speed and strength, the eye color shifting from black to gold and back again, the inhuman beauty, the pale, frigid skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She tugs me forward to a large table overflowing with piles of tattlers, beauty pamphlets, and scandal sheets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I love his feet And I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Violet didn’t know anything about the girl at first except her name, her age, and that she was very well thought of in the legally licensed beauty parlor. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I sang that tree’s glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But he had been confined twenty-three hours a day to his cell, with no distractions, no companionship or beauty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z This was considered the height of a woman’s beauty. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But if a poem is beauty and truth, your Miss Madden will treasure your words more than money, more than certificates. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Ear, Eye and Arm passed health spas, vegetable markets, a junior college, beauty salons and libraries, although only Ear appreciated the view. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Gertrude rarely spoke to me, but I gazed on her, my eyes drinking in her beauty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Simple, Carter. Like all great schemes and plans, it has the beauty of simplicity.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dis solves imperceptibly into beauty. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not until dark that Frightful and I got to the deer, and a beauty it was. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Her beauty did not fade, but she did not advertise it so in the passages and chambers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There were men and women both, but they all shared the same otherworldly beauty: hard and cold and perfect. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He expressed happiness over her plumpness, which showed promise of great beauty. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I will capture that beauty on canvas, someday, when I am good enough. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Corporation didn’t make explosives — certainly not out of beauty products. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As dawn washed the darkness from the sky, the shattered glacier was revealed to be a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “I always grow solemn in the presence of such beauty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She looked up at him, her pretty eyes swimming in her clear tears, and he groaned because this woman’s beauty was more than he could wish and he loved her when he would not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z To the young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamor in the world. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Listen, I don’t care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don’t tell me I’m not sensitive to beauty. That’s my Achilles’ heel, and don’t you forget it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Marco pauses, looking down at the sketch, annoyed that he could not properly capture the beauty of the thing in hastily rendered drawings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He added, though, according to Zhenya Rudneva, that “beauty lies not in lipstick or a manicure, not in clothes or a hairdo, but in what we actually do.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was a black onyx clock with a gold face but on top of it was the real beauty. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But beauty is right here in the smallest thing. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Every feeling, and with the sense that they’d been stripped down to their essence, revealed for the first time in all their unspeakable beauty, their unbearable fragility. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Some people were concerned about their futures, but many others became obsessed with the present and held a never-ending parade of sports competitions, beauty contests, parties, talent shows, and dances. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Everything about the space breathed life and happiness and beauty. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z What was their beauty to me in a few weeks? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had never seen her look so worn and old and never been more aware of her beauty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Augurs made my armor to accentuate my body's power, they made Hel's to accentuate her beauty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,” Peeta points out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I push down worries that she knows what I tried to do in our last beauty session. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Such is His mystery: that beauty requires contrast, and that discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew it. Natural beauty. I’ll bet your eyes are spectacular.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Oh, my God,” Ignatius said, “you have powder all over your dress, although that is probably one of Mrs. Battaglia’s beauty hints.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprang to his feet, instantly forgetting the beauty that surrounded him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She needs to save $10,000 to $15,000 to add a beauty salon to her mother’s house and send her three children to school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Neither did Mrs. Ozobia, who followed her husband around, her manner regal, her beauty more intimidating close up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She has remodeled her mother’s house, adding a second-story beauty salon. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And there were moments when the beauty of this country and its people so overwhelmed me that I couldn’t speak. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The central jade green lake mirrored the arching tiled roofs of the pavilions and the rough beauty of large weathered rock sculptures. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, she incorporated a mechanical beauty queen wave, which exploded into a motion where she seemed to pull herself up by an invisible string. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The day where I came to accept my natural beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Her beauty had gone to a kind of fragile gauntness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Before I have a chance to straighten up, off comes the other supermarket beauty. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “I’ve collected beauty for years, so of course I’m beautiful,” she said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But you get used to close-by beauty, and Constanza was different, like the picture of a faraway place on a puzzle you hurry to put together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Since Josh start school. I get my GED, I go to beauty school, get license, get permit. . . " Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It had a beauty he alone could appreciate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Find beauty wherever you can, child. It will keep you alive.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z After that beauty pageant win and then the acid attack, her face had been all over the news. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I also tell him all about my pieces on York and Lewis and Clark, and my vision to make beauty out of everyday things, to find beauty in the disregarded. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His beauty stunned my mind — it was too much, an excess I couldn’t grow accustomed to. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z All her life Marilyn had been awed by that precision and beauty in her husband, in his body She had rarely, if ever, seen him make a mistake off the diving board. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I say vague things about how we humans painted landscapes sometimes, too, and that I’m painting the world I want to live in: a world of adventure but also of ancient beauty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We have seen nothing like it for years, nothing like it for happiness, beauty and joy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He walked through England and Scotland tabulating “beauty”—secretly ranking the women he met as “attractive,” “indifferent,” or “repellent” using pinpricks on a card hidden in his pocket. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z McCandless was stirred by the austerity of this landscape, by its saline beauty. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What Lana had seen of the act so far was not promising, but Darlene said that the costuming would transform the performance into a thing of beauty. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Can I have a ride? I promise to give you both a beauty token for your troubles." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To crown her beauty, a floral wreath appeared on her head, transforming her into an Aztec princess. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I want to wake her parents up and tell them that their daughter is competing in a beauty pageant, and that she’s going to win. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was like when he was creating his character he traded in all his intelligence points for beauty points. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then they went back and told their families about her beauty and about how many cattle Kumalo had given her father. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Good” hair was seen as anything closer to European standards of beauty. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe over the years he had forgotten about the importance of keeping them, or maybe he was distracted by her youth or beauty or cleverness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I was thinking I’d never felt more content or known such beauty in all my life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I yield the combat. Horatio, this lady’s mind is a fair match for mine, and her beauty grows with the wisdom she speaks.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “It was my mother’s. She called it her beauty box. She kept makeup and stuff in it.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Walls sparkle with golden plaques that showcase the imperial beauty laws. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her red, red lips curved up into a smile of such beauty, such brilliance, such pure and perfect happiness that it would have frozen your blood in your veins to have seen it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Women squeeze my hands as I pass, and wave their beauty tokens in the air. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Even if they didn’t see it as a thing of beauty, they understood that it had to look the way it did.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter because nothing can compete with the beauty of the couple. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I want to be like you were, Mama, bright and elegant, creating beauty all around you, always kind. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Gustavo sang to her beauty mark, the lunar by her mouth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Any ideas on extending how long beauty treatments last?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z By all accounts she was a great beauty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of the buck’s imminent death seemed to magnify everything: the beauty of the animal, the smell of the forest, the beating of her heart. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He watched it fill his dining room, momentarily struck by the beauty of the sight. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And when Abdulrahman first witnessed the sardines circling in the black he could not believe the sight, the beauty of the undulating silver orb below the white and gold lantern light. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And the beauty of it was, since they were designed for working on toys, they were nearly all miniature, easily small enough for us to handle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Eugenicists such as Galton had hoped to select complex phenotypes—intelligence, height, beauty, and moral rectitude—as a biological shortcut to enrich genes for intelligence, height, beauty, and morality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The minarets! Oh, what beauty! What a gorgeous city!” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s like every other beauty supply store I’ve ever been in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Her breasts were rising with the leaven of her years, and her face had the calm and warmth of beauty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Visual analysis can help us to appreciate the beauty of a masterpiece, but we must be careful not to use a formulaic approach that would trivialize it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard sat there for a while, imagining the lives of people who were capable of such beauty, such complexity, in the time of Alfred the Great. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had begun to love her, to love more than just her beauty and grace, and when he saw that in their hearts they shared the same dream he felt a great certainty about her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then the real beauty of the situation dawns on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When served to clients, it's supposed to keep their arms and legs from trembling, quiet their fears or anticipation, and help dull the pain of beauty transformations. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I can hear him saying, I have no need for beauty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “My homeland. I’ll be back down there soon. In the great white marble halls of the library at Dwelholm. Oh, Archivist, you cannot imagine the beauty of that place!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Usually I only cut older women’s hair. Their beauty is a little more, well, potent.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I draw five Japanese women with very different faces, but all of them are equally beautiful because beauty is not just one thing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They were combing and brushing their dogs, and getting them pruned for the beauty contest. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She quit the beauty salon, set up a messenger service as an operating front, and ran all of her business by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What a miserable state for a girl of former beauty! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I guess it would be really cheesy of me to say I think you’re ten times hotter and smarter than any beauty queen.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The widow's son was awestruck by her beauty. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Not movie-star handsome, which was something else; this was a distant, unearthly beauty. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He pursued coeds by all means necessary, once landing a date with a beauty by hurling himself into the side of her car, then pretending to have been struck. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The witch watched their beauty burn, their bounce, their intelligence, their wit, their open hearts, their charm, their dreams for the future. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It is unfair of the gods to show us beauty when I am in so much pain and anguish. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There's little enough beauty in District 2, though, so I can hardly deny her this. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She gets pushed aside when she’s disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, her beauty is gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, though, being the tubby daughter of Clover City’s most cherished beauty queen doesn’t win me much street cred. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Quickly, then, Penelope the Wise, tall in her beauty as Artemis or pale-gold Aphrodite, appeared from her high chamber and came down to throw her arms around her son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman in the apartment below, who had a helmet of beauty parlor blue hair, had been complaining to the super since the day the family moved in a few months ago. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I became her official suitor without having to perform any superhuman tasks because, despite her awesome beauty and her innumerable virtues, Rosa had no other wooers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His office was in Staten Island in a two-family firetrap just four blocks away from the ferry stop and only one block south of a supermarket, three beauty parlors, and two corrupt druggists. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z General Fiallo now begins chatting about the days he spent posted in El Cibao, the beauty of that region, the lovely cathedral in the square. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran his thumb down the flat of the blade, as if he were hypnotized by its beauty. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They were more alike than she and I, or even he and I. They both had physical beauty and personality, so I figured it figured. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought my little girl could be like the girl in that book—Alicia in Wonderland! But I was wrong. My baby girl didn’t see all the beauty—just the strangeness.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It be like trusting the mirror when it shows you your beauty. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Tell me about Sister Marguerite, whose beauty is like the golden flower she is named for.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They smile and point at me, and whisper my name alongside the words favorite and Belle and beauty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Even when he fought, Redemption fought for the beauty of what his body could do, for the frailty of being human, the power and vulnerability tangled up in being flesh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A certified Aerobics instructor, she appears regularly—with a bevy of other muscle-toned beauties—on an exercise program, “Power Moves!” on cable TV. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Or when Saint Sarah leads another session at the mosque on the powers of being free of societal beauty judgment—that my logical mind completely understands. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Unlike the other things they’d found, this contained dignity, solemnity, beauty even. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He had never known until she told him that he had a widow’s peak, which she assured him was a great mark of beauty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As we know, the wilderness is filled with beauty, but it’s also filled with ugliness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z You’ve got beauty, I wrote, and I see her eyes melt a little as she reads it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He was standing on the corner near the beauty shop, his arm around Mtisha, looking cool. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty in a face which a lifetime’s habit had taught her to ignore. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Reason, beauty, poetry, and excellent conversation were his preferred tools for settling disputes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I noted a strange beauty in the faces of people previously repulsive to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And she has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “And there is no beauty like this earth,” Ultima said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "We were artists, Gerta. We believed in beauty, truth. We wanted to pull heaven down to earth. We had many friends, went to many parties—we were part of a club. A Jewish club." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "Camellia, my time is up. I bring no more value, other than to do beauty work until you're trusted to do so, and train you to replace me." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Ordinary in quality though it was, it glowed with beauty in my eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A guy to be passed over by the beauties in our class looking for sweethearts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I finally chose the schools to apply to according to the sound of their names, the beauty of their brochures, the personality of the coach’s letter, and the nature of their curriculum. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I guess I’m not much of a beauty queen.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I told him, in detail, because I liked the story and there was such beauty in it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “They gave her more beauty. Are you satisfied?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I remove a needle from my beauty caisse, but hesitate to feel the sting. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business in the melee." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “I recall her dancing with utmost propriety and a singular beauty.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I’d lose track trying to count all of the beauty marks on her face. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The real beauty of the arrangement was that it allowed whites to maintain their dominant social and economic position without feeling guilty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “To return to Horatio’s question,” I said with a reasoned tone, “I believe that a virtuous mind outlasts the fleeting beauty of youth and thus is more desirable.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Even her bratty second-in-command, Drew Tanaka, seemed relieved, probably because Piper could run things and give Drew more time for gossip and in-cabin beauty treatments. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was thicker about the chest and broader at the shoulders, and though his face was comely enough, he lacked Ser Loras's startling beauty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’s a little beauty, but what can I do with him? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As the Eagle closed the door behind him, the Colonel shot up, smiling at me, and still nervous that the Eagle might be outside, whispered, “That was a thing of beauty.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z So my daughter and I are alone in this crowded beauty parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he had overcome his fear of the dogs, he was able to appreciate the beauty of the moment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shore birds of every sort populated the tide line, filling it with business and beauty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not tell—I did not know his taste in female beauty. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Tally’s heart almost stopped at the beauty of her confusion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Min’s work was renowned for its great beauty, but there were not many who could afford it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They all think I’m killing myself at this pace, but what they don’t understand is that I’m living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z That girl shined in all of her beauty, or at least what I thought was the definition of beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Were complex features such as intelligence, intellectual accomplishment, or beauty, say, variant in the same manner? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lily said we’d take Daddy’s car and go down to May Company or Broadway Department Store later that day, then she’d take me to the beauty school to get my hair washed and straightened. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z When courtiers receive their appointments, their portraits fill every newspaper and beauty pamphlet. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Chairman Mao taught us that “inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She wore cowboy boots with a long white ruffled skirt and a denim shirt and waved like a beauty queen—a perfect combination of folksy and classy. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “If I had a passion for doors,” he said, “or gilded clocks, or miniatures; if I wanted a Turkish corner of my own, I would very likely regard Hill House as a fairyland of beauty.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Panting heavily, his jaw bruised and his leg bleeding, the agent crawled toward the beauty queen and smeared her mouth with the Mind’s Flower fruit, torn from a neighboring plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I was already late, and as I hurried by the Presbyterian church, a girl’s voice called from behind a big beauty bush in full bloom. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “My skin, genius! It’s a beauty product, okay? Scram!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “She was born for this. There’s a beauty queen in that cute, little fat girl.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She was young and blond, with blue eyes and a lush figure, but what elevated her above mere beauty was the aura of vulnerability and need that surrounded her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was five-foot-eleven but I had twenty-five thousand cotton dollars in my name, and if the beauty in that was not apparent then, by God, he wasn’t smart enough to be in the family anyway. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I was dumbstruck by the natural beauty of the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Even if she had been concerned, there were reverberations of Calvinism strong within her, which would have protested vigorously against the vanity of regret for a passing beauty. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come back to the beauty shop,” she said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In our eyes, she was reborn into beauty—celestial, divine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “You know what that means, me proud beauty! Thirteen kisses!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good thing she’d taken the care to keep up her beauty routine every day, unlike the others. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Closer, I could see that Vera’s face had the resonance of a former highly prized beauty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z One day, while lying in the warm sun staring at its magnificent beauty, I found the perfect name. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the beauty of a creature fulfilling her exact purpose in the world, being the precise thing she had trained her whole life to be. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There was beauty in Chaol’s face—and strength, and honor, and loyalty. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But I am happy, very happy, that I can look out my window and see all the beauty that’s still there, waiting for me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When Declaration spent the night, Aunt Florentine gave us egg-white facials, shared all her beauty tips, and let us rummage through her jewelry box. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And Matt understood that what El Patron missed was not the beauty of the stones, but the joy he once took in owning fine things. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The beauty appointment with Princess Sabine floods back with a hot wave of embarrassment and shame. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The sun filtered through the trees and light reflected off the river like shiny scales, while we sat on the banks enjoying the peace and beauty of the place. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z We pinned enough Virgencitas and azabaches and hung enough scapulars around that girl’s neck to charm away the men who were always wanting to get their hands on that young beauty. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ophelia, you are a natural philosopher! If I admit that my heart still beats, will you allow me to admire your beauty?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Such was the report of her beauty that not a young prince in Greece but wanted to marry her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Father Gomez was impressed by the beauty of those wing-sails, by how they were flexed and trimmed so perfectly, and by the speed of the birds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His enigmatic beauty seemed better suited for dim Gothic chambers and the silence of ruined castles, aristocracy that had cracked around the edges, clothed itself in ivy, and crawled back into the wilderness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Tally looked up at Dr. Cable’s cruel beauty, at the puke- yellow-brown of the walls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z You made sure the world heard about the beauty of maple sugar children, and the artfully tattooed backs of Black sailors venturing out to foreign places. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A cry came to my throat, and I wanted to shout it and run in the beauty I had found. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "While on the subject of beauty tokens, there's very beautiful craftsmanship this season. I chose the artisan myself from the House of Smiths." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Much of the beauty would be lost, but would it make me feel better inside? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Before the end of life he had seen beauty. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “My people have much love of stone. Had we time, I think we might create a land of rare beauty.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon the road narrowed to two lanes and we were surrounded by the groves, surrounded by the beauty of it all. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She holds her bouquet of roses and gives the perfect beauty queen wave. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z You knew their beauty was real because they didn’t wear any makeup and still looked good. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Your personality—the real you inside—was the price of beauty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I do hope it is your many beauties that are the cause of Hamlet’s wildness,” she said, appraising my dress and figure with an approving smile. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Hunger Games aren't a beauty contest, but the best-looking tributes always seem to pull more sponsors. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I thought again about Ashley with her pearls and sweaters and wondered how I had gone from searching for that preppy beauty to a New Age tattoo artist named Agent. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z There was a certain kind of beauty, a prettiness that everyone could see. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Shay’s beauty seemed to snuff out everything inside Tally; her fear, surprise, and excitement fled, leaving nothing but amazement. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z If Ma is known for her beauty, Pa is loved for his generous heart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Headlines cluster and flash across the parchment, announcing Princess Sophia's upcoming engagement, and the latest imperial beauty laws to be passed by the queen and the Beauty Minister. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In what book, chapter, and verse can we read about a winner of a beauty contest becoming a queen? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Antain loved woodworking—the stability of the material, the delicate beauty of the grain, the comforting smell of sawdust and oil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Still, when Aunt Eva lit the holiday candles, broad hands encircling the light, her plain face with its deep- set coffee-colored eyes took on a kind of beauty. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But of course, the beauty of your voice makes it hard to concentrate on the words alone.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z How could he forget that green dress, how it clung to the curve of her hips and hampered her running and showed the beauty of her shoulders. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The beauty was overwhelming, even muted in the late fall, and Anya had to look down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Still pale, still dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She would be a beauty pageant Che Guevara. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I press two beauty tokens into their hands and thank them as they whiz away, full of laughter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I took the early afternoon bus for Tuskegee, walked through a Southern town of great beauty and tranquility. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Believe it or not, this place used to be mighty fine. There was a barbershop and beauty salon and a shoeshine place all inside. They say Dr. King even stayed here once. It was glorious.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z My mother owned one of the best beauty salons at the time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z To us, Harlem symbolized the strength of resistance and the beauty of black pride. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a thing of beauty and a joy forever,” said Jo, looking through her hand with the air of a connoisseur at the blue feather against the golden hair. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “I said that your sister is quite a little beauty, did you hear me?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I add one beauty token to each palm, with an instruction to keep their mouths shut. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The waitress, a blonde beauty with just a hint of a goiter, smiled at him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The beauty I possessed as a baby only increased as I grew into a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Also, that kind of naive kindness is akin to standing on a busy freeway and gazing at the beauty of the sun. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “You’ve never seen such dreams, Min. The beauty he sees in the world, and in me. It can change things. I can feel it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as he began to attend to them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And I was happy in those first days as really I’d never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I think of the beauty of the room in which Amber now sleeps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And because it looked cold and green, he picked spring beauties from the forest floor and wove them among the needles. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z A ladybug had crawled up and sat on the Holy Mother’s cheek, making the most perfect beauty mark on her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z How dare she try to make me feel inferior to her own pure, clear beauty? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is beauty around me, there is beauty around me, there is beauty around me, there is beauty around me.’” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And the other girls gathered their tampons, gummi bears, and beauty samples — a smokescreen of female products — and headed back up to the surface. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She knew that she wanted Islam in her future and all the honor and beauty it brought. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Together he and his architects had conjured a dream city whose grandeur and beauty exceeded anything each singly could have imagined. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You have not seen the beauty, intelligence, and gentility of the elfin nobility.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z And so when I asked why, I expected her usual answer: beauty for beauty’s sake. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But ho, let me tickle your thoughts with this—the ship even has a movie theater, a music room, a beauty salon, and a promenade deck completely enclosed in glass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But there were no answers in Delsa’s solemn eyes, or in Norma’s haughty beauty, or in Héctor’s eagerness to please. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He will stop first in Arles, a town known for its warmth, beauty, and beautiful women. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nearby streets were lined with black-owned grocery stores, barbershops, beauty salons, and restaurants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Thinking that if I had stayed there in that place of joy and beauty, I wouldn’t be here now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z His face, just as it was, carried the impact, however oblique and slow-travelling, of real beauty. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He was beautiful, without a doubt, but it was a terrible beauty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There was even an illustration of her and Mini at Madame Bee’s beauty salon. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had a nice smile, a pretty wife who had been runner-up in a state beauty contest fourteen years ago, and two good-looking kids. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight Mami was turning back into the beauty she had been back home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Maybe there’s a beauty in the scars,” she said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He grabbed for the beauty queen, and she deftly elbowed him in the gut. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I freckle her body with beautiful beauty marks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Jethro let the ant go on its way, and sat staring at the shadows with the lonely ache that beauty sometimes brought to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasnt sure what it was about but he thought it was about beauty or about goodness. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I imagine him feeding her food from his fingers in her kitchen, and she eats it, allowing enough of her lips to smudge him with her beauty. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Oh my gosh! My bad. How could I have forgotten to pack my spear for my beauty pageant?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “As you say. If we encounter this Lady Korra, I will just slip into a skirt and say that I am Cersei, the famous bearded beauty of King’s Landing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One need only place beside them in imagination any Greek statue of a god, so normal and natural with all its beauty, to perceive what a new idea had come into the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Roberta was the only girl taking the course, but Jimmy would have noticed her even if the room had been full of beauties, because she was open and confident. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “It gives us a little time for you to catch up and see the beauty of what you’re doing.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I felt most beautiful when my mother’s patrons complimented her on her beauty, because in the next breath, they would also say I looked like her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z About two-fifteen she entered Minnie Franken’s beauty parlor, stayed an hour, and came out with her hair pinned up in tight curls and a silk scarf around her head and tied under her chin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The beauty of this country is becoming part of me. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As Maysilee Donner bravely disengages herself and heads for the stage, I catch a glimpse of my mother at my age, and no one has exaggerated her beauty. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Her face is open and guileless, her beauty plain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Curly guessed it was her very first Hollywood role after retiring from beauty pageants. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Belowdecks he found a gymnasium full of exercise apparatus, a children’s playroom, barbershops, a manicure shop, and a beauty salon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For an hour or two every Thursday, when Jalil came to see her, all smiles and gifts and endearments, Mariam felt deserving of all the beauty and bounty that life had to give. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was always in charge—even then, before you understood it, her beauty was hard to look away from: glossy dark hair and full red lips. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z For years Dad had been telling me I had an inner beauty. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is it. The Virgin’s sanctuary, her home,” I said, taking in the beauty of the ancient cement building with its stained-glass windows and tall central tower. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The man beside him was no beauty either; hulking, black-browed, he had a flat nose, heavy jowls dark with stubble, small black close-set eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lilya was an eccentric beauty, a petite blonde who regularly sent her aircraft mechanic to pick up peroxide from a nearby hospital so she could bleach her hair. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She was a young woman still unaware of her own beauty, and Kaede could not look away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “If we aren’t going to have a midnight snack,” said the other mother, “we still need our beauty sleep. I am going back to bed, Coraline. I would strongly suggest that you do the same.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The sun was pouring into the broad courtyard of the goldsmith’s shop, flooding ovens, benches, crucibles, with a radiance that made even the washing vats seem things of beauty. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “I have not eaten in two days, but now that I am here, it is enough for me to feast upon your beauty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "King Louis is the most beautiful man I have ever seen, but his beauty radiates from his wisdom, his piety, and his kindness. Not the dust and flesh that cling to his bones." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Mr Graham would always take the view that this 'dignity' was something like a woman's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z "It's forbidden for men to be alone with Belles outside the confines of beauty appointments, or to speak to them unless the conversation relates to beauty work." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z For her, beauty went hand in hand with joy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With her uncommon green eyes, she was almost a beauty, though her nose was overlong. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She had the violent weaknesses and passion for beauty of the shanty Nolans. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And surely you and Franny are the only beauties in the family. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the sunlight filtering in, but there was a strange beauty captured in them, a special care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He liked the angelic beauty of his face and his smooth cheeks, his narrow hips, and long straight legs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He was always a kind, good gentleman, though not what you may call a beauty.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Only coveted for their beauty, when they can help solve so many problems." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Maybe there is beauty, trapped somewhere deep beneath this black skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He told Gerd of the beauty of Frey, and of his power. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And while the beauty school lady was straightening my hair, I got to look at the big bank of mirrors and watch it transform from kinky to straight. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z In the country the repository of art and science was the school, and the schoolteacher shielded and carried the torch of learning and of beauty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Real beauty is inside, and the right boy will see that.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She was standing behind us, a slim-hipped beauty with velvety coal black hair, an open thermos and Styrofoam cup in her hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The teacher continued her diatribe and I settled back, bathing in the subtle beauty of each new curse and insult. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z On the other hand, somebody else would have to be in charge of killing the beauty queens. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Coven houses had luxurious guest rooms with showers and any kind of beauty treatment or ointment you could want for their members. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathised in their joys. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed what he was doing was the musical embodiment of God's master plan for humankind, a recognition of the intricate mathematical beauty of the natural order as ordained by the Almighty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe that in this wide beauty there roamed three souls trapped to do evil. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Various birds—pheasants, peacocks, macaws—lost feathers to people greedy for their beauty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She saw me walking by the beauty shop while she was getting her curls done. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I finger the strand, feeling as if the lei has transferred some of its beauty to me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They were meant for this—to hunt and to kill—and there was a frightening beauty in their sharp golden eyes and powerful jaws. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Maybe the plan all along was to get the whole family gathered right here, right in this spot, to look out on the beauty outside their window? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My nail circles the little spintria symbol, and I wonder how Du Barry and the Beauty Minister quantify the price of beauty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Decca, sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sure enough, there she was, a beauty among beauties. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It had been a long time since Ned Stark had seen her beauty, but he saw it now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Losing all your beauty and coughing a good deal?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z But neither her beauty nor his size and strength would serve with the men whose ships they needed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The woman is a statuesque redhead with eyelashes too long to be real and a beauty spot painted next to her full lips. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The night had a cold, phantasmal beauty that intensified as we climbed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s just that those things don’t seem to have the weight, the measureless beauty of countless sunsets and dawns, the simple grace and clear glory of nature. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They all stood for a long, long moment, lost in the beauty of Resthaven. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She had the beauty of early youth, although he could see that it would quickly fade, as it does with women who are bom to have many children, work without rest, and bury their dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking, What kind of girl does the beauty competition circuit? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He was welcomed; and when they sat all at table in Merethrond, the Great Hall of Feasts, he beheld the beauty of the ladies that he saw and was filled with great wonder. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Hazel worked as a helper in a beauty parlor for eight dollars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He took me to a beauty salon, and we found a cheap wig—curly black synthetic hair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The buoyancy of spirit and the beauty of early morning had long since given away to discomfort and the boredom of monotony. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get over your beauty sleep, Nailer,” Pima called. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I hated thinking about Jackie getting on that bus to Raleigh, going back to her happy life, painting her fingernails with Carol Lee, dating Scooter the paintball champion, maybe even going to beauty school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But her beauty often seems at odds with her piety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Guess who I ran into at the beauty parlor?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z As if a magician’s wand had touched him, the garland of roses transformed him into a vision of Oriental beauty. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z A drugstore might do or perhaps a beauty shop. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The northern girl had a wild beauty, as he recalled, though however bright a torch might bum it could never match the rising sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She motions at one of her attendants, who sets up an easel with a beauty board on it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Flavius performs some beauty miracle on my hair, managing to even out the front while getting some of the longer locks to hide the bald spots in the back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Her first reaction was pride, and she would have refused the offer just because of the beauty of the gesture, but Clara did not give her time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The white sun reflected off his bright orange scales and the glistening glorious light blinded us and filled us with the rapture true beauty brings. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The funeral banquet was a peal of joy after the thunderous beauty of the funeral. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Park's dad had converted their garage into a salon when Josh started kindergarten and their mom went to beauty school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Her youthful beauty was betrayed by the shadows. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “You talk about charm and beauty and sacrificing yourself to make things pleasant for people. I don’t believe you care a bit for that. You’re too conceited and stubborn and selfish...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Her face, I'm afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Ethan and I sit down opposite each other on a flat granite rock near the edge, and I appreciate the pond’s beauty for the first time, seeing it through Ethan’s eyes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z "Well, anyway. I gotta get my beauty sleep. You know how it is." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to an-other—physical beauty. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of all that beauty, it immediately became clear that it was an extremely distasteful syllable. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I take a deep breath and put it in the hidden space at the base of my beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I was struck by her beauty, and I turned my head to get a better look at her, but my car had gone by too fast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Amber draws black kohl lines over Claudine's chest and arms and face, making a beauty road map. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The wood had been deemed good enough, and a crew of pirates and beauty queens were about the business of hammering and applying pitch to make the vessel seaworthy again. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Poor Black Dog: There was some beauty to life after all, even if it was only the beauty of hope. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The young woman, bewitched by the beauty of the shimmering young god, gave herself to him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Conor watched as the young prince rose and looked down at the sleeping farmer’s daughter, who even Conor could see was a beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “But each time is new, my little violinist. You’ve never played it exactly that way, right? The beauty of live music!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A friend told Burnham, “The scene burst on me with the beauty of a full blown rose.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Near the window, hidden by the dark, he felt the irritability of the day drain from him and relished the effortless beauty of the women singing in the candlelight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose every mother is reduced to idiocy when describing her firstborn, but, oh, he is a beauty—large and dark like his father, but with the bright blue eyes of the Bradshaws. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So many talents, so many different attractions, so much money, elegance, and beauty on display, but—and it’s a trivial observation—this multitude of desiderata is inevitably spread out among a large group of people. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the post office, in the plaza, or in the beauty shop where she worked, Felicia could have earned standing ovations and showers of red carnations. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Will their beauty always be marred by memories of Mobius? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z "I am past my childbearing years, what beauty I had long fled," she replied with a tired half smile, "yet men come sniffing after me as they never did when I was a maid." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Oh sure, sure. Just have the butler call me in the morning. It’s all just too, too simple for me to bother about before my beauty nap.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, my ... m 'lord. You met his mother whilst out riding and were smitten by her beauty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z On Saturdays, she and Ofelia went to the beauty parlor and returned with identical helmets of girlish curls, which they protected fiercely with hairpins and kerchiefs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago she was on the fast track: modeling for Jet magazine, appearing in local television commercials, and competing in beauty pageants. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Not always. That’s the...beauty of it. If the stock you buy goes down, you lose money.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Maybe, I’ll take time out and get a permanent wave, except that I hate beauty parlors. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “As a girl, though... she was once smitten with a young knight from the stormlands who wore her favor at a tourney and named her queen of love and beauty. A brief thing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once a patient had come in to the hospital, her face burnt from a beauty treatment. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "My daughter's been responsible for setting a few unnatural beauty trends among the younger courtiers. That terrible blip with the sea-blue skin tone, and the trend where courtiers matched their teacup pets." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It’s been about more than just an individual’s notion of her own beauty. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “There used to be a little card around here somewhere. Isn’t it a beauty? You can feel it plummeting through the air.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For when the maple sap began to run it meant that warmer days, pleasant sun, all the beauties of spring were close at hand. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Just the knowledge that he’d been defeated by a pack of teen beauty queens. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “My beauty will not fill up your belly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Quite naturally she considered the stuffs she wove unapproachable for fineness and beauty, and she was outraged when she heard that a simple peasant girl named Arachne declared her own work to be superior. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What light and beauty could be forced down the throats of her reluctant pupils, she forced. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She thought of her mother’s sad eyes and faded beauty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And I don’t mention the slight wrinkles around her eyes or her pimples, because I know they would bother her, even when they add something real to her beauty. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Whatever befell, there would be a blue sky overhead, and the warmth and color and fragrance and beauty that her heart craved. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “You...sing,” said I, “with great skill and beauty.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z You know what it is like to feel the beauty of the sunrise touching you and giving you strength as the corn pollen is sprinkled on the earth into crosses where you kneel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z "Marry me, bright light, and sail the ship of my heart. I cannot sleep at night for thinking of your beauty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he’d planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the hours I had whiled away staring at its beauty and how hard it had been finding the right name for it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was too slim and elegant for beauty contests. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But I feel good, and who needs beauty sleep when you’ve got champagne? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Ever since elementary school, I’ve been making beauty out of everyday things—candy wrappers, pages of a newspaper, receipts, rip-outs from magazines. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “The good folks at The Corporation there are gonna give y’all a little tour and let you test our new beauty products, and then I have a super surprise for all my Teen Dreamers.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It streaks me inside with streams of her beauty I hold her yellow hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I was learning about shades of black in America, and about how your skin tone determines where you stand on the beauty scale. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But as soon as he spotted Alexia bent over her square, he wound up and sailed a beauty in her direction. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I won’t fall for some silly trick, because he thinks I am some fool to lose my head over beauty; if I was, I couldn’t last a single day in Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Tonight, as in a beauty contest, the boys of Permian would come before the crowd one by one so they could be checked out and introduced. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, you are not a fighter. You are Ezili’s child—the lover. The beauty. Leave him alone. I will fight for you, Donna. I will fight this battle for you.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I do not dream! I see the face of Lord Hamlet on this youth, overspread with Ophelia’s beauty and her truth,” he says in a tone of wonder. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Within a week, Felicia had her old job back at the beauty shop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One of our teachers told us that in Africa “the gap” was considered a rare and enviable beauty mark. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Thou art more lovely and more temperate in terms of sheer beauty. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was such a beauty that Dad declared the time had come to revive the tradition of naming our cars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Haydn's aim was the manufacturing of beauty and elegance in the material world; he was conscious that what he was doing was artifice, not a divine intervention. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She stood perfectly still, hardly believing the beauty of the sound, until Aunt Chipo yelled at her to move on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at her across the car, strangely saddened by the deep beauty of her smile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is you who are baiting a trap with those two beauties you are so proud of.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But the beauty of the star women was more than he could resist. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was as if David didn’t see her beauty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "May you always find beauty, Your Highness," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "I answer the phones and book the beauty appointments for the Belles at the teahouses, and also for the favorite. I take orders for Belle-products and arrange the court delivery balloons." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He walked up, made small talk, commented on the beauty of the sunset, and then, gallantly, segued into the beauty of her face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Kino opened his hand and held it out, and the priest gasped a little at the size and beauty of the pearl. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The early Greek mythologists transformed a world full of fear into a world full of beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a kind of beauty that was strange to me, and although I was still in the valley, I began to feel that my journey had begun. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Oh. I didn’t mean it like that. I just meant that you don’t seem like the typical beauty queen type.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The driveway approaching the main entrance curved around formal gardens of great beauty, now tinged with the first brushstrokes of autumn color. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She took me to a beauty parlor and I had my hair shingled. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "What do you think of these? I had my beauty cabinet make them up. And my mother continues to meddle and edit them." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I’d never seen him dress in black before, and, with the contrast against his pale skin, his beauty was absolutely surreal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Armistead heard once more that sweet female voice, unbearable beauty of the unbearable past: it may be for years, it may be forever. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I like Dusting best, for its undeniable logic and a certain kind of austere beauty. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was at such times when I perceived the beauty of even this small, closed-in corner of the world, that I knew that someday my people and I would be free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The enchantress in her beauty fed and caressed me, promised me I should be immortal, youthful, all the days to come; but in my heart I never gave consent though seven years detained. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize that a woman’s physical beauty is important, that it never hurts business to have attractive girls selling your products. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Will beauty simply cease to exist for me? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z That was the beauty of following the code of the five little sisters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The mother and daughters stare, overtaken by beauty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The large-eyed beauty of the women, the singing, the flowers, the bright colors, and the crying, were what he needed now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Remember: We are Miss Teen Dreamers. We are not victims. We are not cowards. We are bright shining stars, beacons of hope to all who arrive on the shores of our beauty.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As the riding became less an ordeal, Dany began to notice the beauties of the land around her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I push the thought away, concentrating on the pulse of the music and the stirring blond beauty before me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He had none of Hamlet’s noble beauty, but a woman might find him somewhat fair of countenance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I can’t drag a husband and sons into a life where their beauty will blossom and wither in darkness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine each room as the beauty workshop of a Belle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her white teeth contrasted with her dark, shiny skin, and when she smiled, her face not only increased in beauty, it also glowed with charm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There were witches in the woods, they stole beauty from swans and then rotted from the inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Had I been older I might have thought that I was moved by both an esthetic sense of beauty and the pure emotion of envy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the ringing doorbell and the booms, she had managed time for the beauty parlor and the sunlamp. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The purpose of this music is to create a sense of glorious beauty and ethereal godliness, to show off how rich the blending of choral voices could be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And like Thaya Jaan asked of me, I can still try to help others see that there’s so much beauty in a place that I love. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But while he paints, capturing the beauty of nature on the canvas, trying to give to the world what he once wanted to give through preaching, he worries about Theo's money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, if you take that line, how about the grocery in Santa Ana? How about Checkers, my beauty?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It still echoed with the remnants of the power that had once given these trees such unnatural beauty. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was an old silver beauty, with detailing in the pearl handle, a shine on the barrel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I hand her an envelope with forty dollars from what I’ve saved from the Miss Myrna column, my allowance, money Mother has forced into my hands for beauty parlor appointments I never went to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At thirteen I was tall and large boned, with delusions of beauty and romance. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a fiance and would one day marry, on which occasion the responsibility of her beauty would become her husband’s. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother, being of great beauty, was often painted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As we rose out of the highway trough, we could see the condemned houses, many burned, as well as the stark beauty of all the vacant lots, gray and frozen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But there was no longer any beauty in the world about him or any serenity in his heart. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She confessed her affection for the seven Moscote sisters, for their beauty, their ability for work, their modesty, and their good manners, and she celebrated her son's prudence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Remembering the crash he had a moment of fear, a breath-tightening litde rip of terror, but it passed and he was quickly caught up in die beauty of the scenery. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one comes with four games. And the beauty of it is, each cartridge turns the computer into something quite different.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I squeeze my eyes shut, not understanding why such beauty torments me with pain and sadness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Use the construction paper to create personal touches, like eyelashes, beauty marks, even a bow tie. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The conductor displayed to Poirot with a dramatic gesture the beauty of his sleeping compartment and the neat arrangement of his luggage. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z To me, a thirteen-year-old Black girl, stalled by the South and Southern Black life style, the city was a state of beauty and a state of freedom. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me too. Just give me one more second,” I say, grabbing a stack of beauty magazines from my nightstand. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The beauty of what we do is its secrecy, its smallness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z If an Englishman could appreciate beauty, why couldn’t I? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Yes. Whatever beauty is, I had it, in those days. Or it had me.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “That shirt is a thing of beauty, isn’t she?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It reminded me that even the dead possessed HaShem’s sanctity and divine beauty and that no manner of defilement could take that away. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Each time, his beauty pierced me through with sadness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Would they smile when they learned I doubted the God of my forefathers, the God of the Lunas, and knew I praised the beauty of the golden carp? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “My wife never thought of this,” said one, and he bought some crystal—he was entertaining guests that night, and the guests would be impressed by the beauty of the glassware. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rebecca, with her beauty, her charm, her breeding, why did she have a cousin like Jack Favell? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “My mother was a baton twirler and a beauty queen,” said Beverly. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “It will never work. All I wanted was some light. That is why I brought the princess here, really, just for some beauty . .. some light of my own. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Offhand, I can remember seeing just three girls in my life who struck me as having unclassifiably great beauty at first sight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I was awed by the immense beauty of South Africa, seen from high up in the clouds: rolling hills and plains, meandering rivers and mountain ranges, thick forests, magnificent coastlines, luscious farmland. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the beauty of its color, the size of its horns, and how active it is. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In her book, Malala describes the freedom, beauty, and respect for different beliefs in her village that were there before the Taliban, and hopefully will be there again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z That the new queen was in fact a witch, that his grandfather had suspected it to be true when he married her, but that he had overlooked it because of her beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z At the end, when walking was work, we sat on a bench looking down at the river, which was running low, and she told me that beauty was mostly a matter of attention. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z There was as much beauty in the Crone as in the Maiden, and the Mother could be fiercer than the Warrior when her children were in danger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So far, I’d enjoyed the beauty of this organic food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “But I need my beauty sleep if one day Prince Charming is going to gallop down Main Street and sweep me off my feet.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z When the time came to enter the dining room and pay their last respects to Rosa, everyone trembled, for if anything her beauty had grown more remarkable in death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He learns that the house, for all its beauty, has certain faults in the summer months, so that it makes all the more sense that it is a place Gerald and Lydia annually avoid. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Here are people who have spent their lives promoting youthful beauty, making everyone over the age of thirty feel like an open sore. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Tonight, for the first time, she caught the beauty of the ancient Hebrew verses. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The faraway jungle was closer to me than Chuguillanto’s unblemished beauty. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But some of the truth and beauty remained, and the anthem was recognizable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a young man of gigantic stature and great beauty, and a mighty hunter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We stand, for a moment, and take in the beauty of Mont-Saint-Michel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Everyone who flew with her spoke of her beauty, her love of music, her love of children, and her dedication to her work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I’m just being honest. You need more beauty sleep,” Harriett says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She’s going to the beauty parlor to get her hair done. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z It is impossible to describe the sensation of absolute peace and beauty that surrounds you. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And she was beauty personified on the tennis courts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And what do you personally feel about these narrow standards of beauty?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In Naima’s village, on International Mother Language Day, when the whole country celebrated the beauty of their Bangla language, the leaders gave a prize to the girl who painted the best alpanas. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z That would be only normal, except that the beauty and the quiet made me slow to respond with resentment, and in my hesitation I lost it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard Laxmi dialing directory assistance, asking for the number of a beauty salon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z So are the daisies, black-eyed Susans, Queen Anne’s lace, golden- rods, and fall asters which lend grace and beauty to the landscape. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “She must be a beauty. You got married fast enough. Which did you do first, introduce yourself or propose?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If she could steal beauty from swans, even for a moment, maybe there was some kind of hope. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.; The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Then the prince seeing her beauty, though her face was pale and cold, touched her hand as he bent to look more closely on her. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When the sun sank and the words faded, he gazed over the landscape, moved by its beauty, watching it slip from gray to purple before darkness blended land and sky. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The affection of the whole family, the warm attachment of Miss Campbell in particular, was the more honourable to each party from the circumstance of Jane’s decided superiority both in beauty and acquirements. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Now it was wielding a large bright sword, an ancient weapon of terrible beauty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She regards the pygmy beauty as some sort of rival and hardly suspects that I took her picture out of the National Geographic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She is a sophisticated lady with silver hair freshly teased at the beauty parlor and manicured nails painted red. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Tally wondered if this was someplace where people were taken when their operations went wrong, when beauty turned cruel. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When I wake up, the dying light of the day makes everything seem to matter, from the yellowing sky to the stalks of grass above my head, waving in slow motion like a beauty queen. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pretty! say beautiful rather. Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether—face and figure?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There had been more to his beauty than perfect features: He radiated an allure that would be nearly impossible to resist. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, it must have been a thing of beauty, but time has taken its toll. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Her ladies evermore praised her beauty, and she loved to be told that she was too young to be the mother of a grown prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Their parents walked downstairs, Lillian skipping lightly, proud of her beauty, aware of it; her husband followed, pulling at his necktie, uncomfortable in the full dress regalia of civilians. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Either they were intentionally trying to slow him down, or they were so taken with Boots’s beauty that they had forgotten about him entirely. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As a baby, even as a little girl, I possessed an awkward, extravagant beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I draw a girl breaking apart the sun until one star becomes a hundred stars, because she wants to cover the world in beauty. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The building had once been an architectural beauty, as famous for its two tall, round turrets as for the goods that were produced inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “A woman of your beauty shouldn’t wear something so juvenile.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Ironically, they were painted for the great industrialists,” he says, “to show the beauty of the landscape they were ruining.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Why then was I unprepared for the beauty of this region, for its variety of field and hill, forest, lake? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To see at last that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She wanted to reveal her past to him in its ugliness and beauty, its courage and complexity. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She cut the rope and a volley of beauty products sailed through the trees. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And what with you driving an old beauty like this' - he gestured to the Ford - 'I thought at first, here's a really posh geezer. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z As if he can really, truly see the beauty that’s there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She laughed and rolled her eyes, and he wished he could make her see it—the way he saw her, the dazzling beauty that was her glittering soul. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Rose-Meta opposes the idea that kinky hair is inferior. Her philosophy is that there is beauty in everyone,” I read. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She married a great Whig politician, and was a famous London beauty for many years, but this portrait was painted before that, when she was still unmarried. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jess, with her bold prints and her Converse trainers and her beauty, her attitude, works in the fashion industry. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her homeliness composed a form of beauty; she was quite impressive to look at. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I had seen beauty, but the beauty had burdened me with responsibility. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked Aileen’s idea of taking photos of the things that were usually forgotten, the beauty of light resting on bent metal. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The mole at the comer of my mouth is no longer a mole; now it’s a beauty mark, just like a movie star’s. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed and polished this beauty until it gleamed like a piece of ancient armor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, they settle on a strapless pale yellow gown, a hand-me-down from a glamorous aunt who used to be a beauty queen before she married and had kids. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She had beauty that endured, and a smile that was not forgotten. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Her face softens with a kindness that enhances her beauty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The beauty of these lights made his breath stop in his throat. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The summer came and burned me brown with its energy, and the llano and the river filled me with their beauty. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt Imogen Sokoloff would have done that, would have savored the slight feeling of sadness and the beauty of the harbor view while holding the skirt of her pretty white dress above her knees. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It never entered her head that they would elect her beauty queen of the carnival pandemonium. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Now, mix me my medicine. The beauty parlor was a zoo today.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And now each day, out on the Yard, I felt this weight and saw this beauty, not just as a matter of theory but also as demonstrable fact. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I could go forward on a path of beauty. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For an instant he could not believe such beauty concealed the evil of which he had been warned. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I could appreciate Raizel’s beauty, now more so than when she wore a dress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The cold does not detract from the area’s beauty: Tiwanaku sits in the middle of a plain ringed by ice-capped mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many of the shards were of significant size—two, three inches across—large enough so that the patterns and beauty of the design could still be easily seen and appreciated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine what it would have been like to study in such a place, to walk across marble floors each morning and, day after day, come to associate learning with beauty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was a fish of great beauty, silver like the moon and as lively as a butterfly in spring. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Pomona yielded to such beauty joined to such eloquence, and henceforward her orchards had two gardeners. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But not for his physical beauty, striking though it was. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I felt that I knew something of his pain and his fury, and, yes, even his beauty. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z "You were great and terrible in your beauty, Ishtar. Be so again." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The things she could afford to buy did not last, had no beauty or style, and were absorbed by the dingy storefront. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Envious of her beauty, they gazed admiringly at her; flattered by her attentions, they confided in her; and when she began to give them advice on their looks, they listened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were beautiful, but to me their beauty seemed aggressive, menacing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Outliving beauty’s outward with a mind that doth renew swifter than blood decays.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t understand how people can ignore beauty like that. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Kosi’s beauty was startling, those cheekbones, that flawless skin, those perfect womanly curves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z How it sucked those toxic chemicals straight out of the earth and churned them into beauty. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And somehow even this was part of the search—the physical beauty of the black body was all our beauty, historical and cultural, incarnate. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Wash watched it transform her face into a fuller beauty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Pictures of her from the tattlers, the scandal sheets, the newspapers, and the beauty magazines. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I want to learn the beauty of being poised. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “You are such a beauty, child. You remind me of myself when I was younger.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was narrow and sharp, with the perfect beauty of porcelain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To stay in shape, but also for the nature-connectedness-science-y beauty all around outside and for the overachiever challenge of distance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask her what happened to all that beauty. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If your beauty is unquestioned, so many other things can go unquestioned as well. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Competitive rowing is an undertaking of extraordinary beauty preceded by brutal punishment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was a maiden in Thessaly named Coronis, of beauty so surpassing that Apollo loved her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And so that beauty that Malcolm pledged us to protect, black beauty, was never celebrated in movies, in television, or in the textbooks I’d seen as a child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And Odysseus came, debating inwardly what he should do: embrace this beauty’s knees in supplication? or stand apart, and, using honeyed speech, inquire the way to town, and beg some clothing? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Wilson came running down the block from the beauty parlor where she worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She, who had so much beauty to begin with. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He hoped that Mrs. Das had understood Surya’s beauty, his power. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The first several times I had gone to the White City, I had been awed and overwhelmed by its beauty. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The shadows bring out the sharpness of his bones, the length of his lashes, the merciless beauty of his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Ser Garlan, your sister's beauty is famed throughout the Seven Kingdoms, but I am promised to another. A king must keep his word." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I don’t remember who came up with it first, but Chantal is the brains, Donna is the beauty, and me, I’m the brawn. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "These were put together by my cabinet, but you and your sisters hold the secrets to the art of beauty. I want to know what you think." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I discovered that as late as it was in the season, the spring beauties were still blooming in the cool pockets of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I think I understood then what Ultima said about things changing, I knew that I would never see them in that beauty of early-morning, bright-sunlight again. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “As always, she presented a stage picture of beauty, grace and generosity.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Often she found herself thinking of the beauty of Maryland, the mellowness of the soil, the richness of the plant life there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To, even for a second, drown myself in her beauty even though I don’t look a thing like her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I was impressed by the natural beauty, but I knew that Africa wasn’t just a giant safari. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “She was probably a classic pretty and they didn’t even know it. Back then, they had weird ideas about beauty. They didn’t know about biology.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She was still beautiful, but it was the beauty of age, not of a golden-haired maiden. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z That was the beauty of all these fail-safes and layers of security. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The integrity of the environment is thereby preserved, the enormous value of the wildlife habitat remains intact, and the beauty of shrub and fern and wildflower has not been sacrificed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Moss learned more about Javier and Eugenia, learned about when they’d come to the States, how long she’d worked in a laundromat before getting a better job at a beauty supply store. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “To think that all this peaceful beauty should hide such cold evil,” he breathed wonderingly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She didn’t look like a beauty queen at all—she looked worn out. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The length of her limbs and the beauty of her face were of no use to Miyax as she lay on the lichen-speckled frost heave in the midst of the bleak tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I had thought of her as a woman of beauty, as perhaps all children think upon their mothers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The dangerous nymph Kalypso lives and sings there, in her beauty, and she received me, loved me. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Angel at first refused to notice, but as the beauty of the music grew in intensity, all of the pain and memories of her past grew within her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Frightful,” I said, “you are a raving beauty.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace wondered if she could give up her sister duties or if someone would just come take them from her, like when beauty pageant winners got caught in a sexting scandal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “He’s limping, and Flatnose's face has seen better days. Not that he was ever much of a beauty.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This Sun Maiden world of baths and fine jewelry and formal hair weaving was foreign to her, and she was no longer the prettiest girl whose beauty demanded the attention of everyone around her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She knew exactly where the spring beauties would appear. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The new breed of artist wanted nothing to do with my sister's idea of beauty. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “This man says, ‘An exquisite book, full of truth, beauty, and earnestness.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your mother was my queen of beauty once," the man said quietly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I think it flattered him that I enjoyed his classes so much I take them for no materialistic reason like credit and an A, but for the sheer beauty of chemistry itself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Of her former beauty not a vestige remained. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And he didn’t get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate that idiot poem about the snowy woods, and I hate it when people say the woods symbolize death or beauty or sex or any old thing you want. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And the beauty of the pearl, winking and glimmering in the light of the little candle, cozened his brain with its beauty. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her life and never dared hope to know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She had all of her mother's beauty, and none of her na-ture. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "We cannot have beauty alterations done like this. So exposed. So out in the open." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “When you have seen more of this country, I am afraid you will think you have overrated Hartfield. Surry is full of beauties.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It was madness, of course, but there was beauty in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Small beauty caisses, ranging in size and age, sit in the corners. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As long as it meets the requirements of Islamic modesty and cleanliness, it can be a “thing of beauty, ’’a fashionable item if you will, of any culture. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Everything we sold was enriched with antioxidants or enhanced with natural super-fruit extracts or formulated for health and beauty. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z As I served the hot chocolate and tidied the chamber, Madam rubbed her face with Venetian Bloom Water beauty wash, said to remove wrinkles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Milkman waited on the sidewalk, staring at the curtained window of the beauty shop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Circe and Medea are the only witches and they are young and of surpassing beauty—delightful, not horrible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Angela had an unrelenting thirst to absorb the beauty around her and desperately tried to make it her own. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z As I had no address to give them, I ignored their questions and padded my replies with broad references to snow, and beauty, and solitude. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Our relatives, I know, murmured that the match was below me; my mother herself was not happy, but I was without beauty and without dowry and it was the best she could do. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Miss Beatty, who wore her glasses on a chain around her neck and had her hair done at the beauty parlor over in Winnemucca every week, told Mom she needed to discipline her students. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was the beauty of the place and also the pleasure of finding things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As a result the community lost the blue and golden beauty of its autumn roads, where asters and goldenrod would have made a display worth traveling far to see. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For a second, I lose myself in their beauty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His athletic grace, social charm, and striking physical beauty had made him a favorite of Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury crowd. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She had seen a great deal of beauty in her short life, but it was Jordan College beauty, Oxford beauty—grand and stony and masculine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I was beginning to wonder what authors like Byron and Shelley were seeing, or if they were really just more sensitive to beauty and interest than I was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “More sunlight! The nerve! How about less oxygen, people? Less beauty?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And she’d been right under my nose, working through Donna with all her talk about hair, jewelry, clothes, and beauty. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, indeed: and not only for her beauty, but for her accomplishments. She was one of the ladies who sang: a gentleman accompanied her on the piano. She and Mr. Rochester sang a duet.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Short and slightly stooped, she retained an exotic beauty. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Its beauty did little to lighten her mood; it seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Taylor marched before the line of sleepy beauty queens, inspecting them drill sergeant-style. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then the enthusiasm of the Grail had burned the bad gasses of the air into a short-lived beauty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Even our dancing requires more rhythm and grace and beauty. Which reminds me, we are needing to leave in fifteen minutes, Shanti." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That afternoon we spotted a fat Spanish beauty, loaded for Madrid. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But considering the lilies as we might, our trimming back got us nowhere close to our goal, even without Rachel’s beauty aids. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To burn every trace of her love—my ill-gotten beauty—from my body. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Her features had the bold muscular strength which could result finally either in ugliness or in great beauty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute—life or truth or beauty—of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Women come with their beauty boards, attendants, and friends. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “We made it. Forty-eight hours of freedom and beauty, looking right at us.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And I saw Khloris, that most lovely lady, whom for her beauty in the olden time Neleus wooed with countless gifts, and married. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z You might get the idea that they howled truth and beauty the way a seal bites out the National Anthem on a row of circus horns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I was very young, and was dealing with my buddies in those wine- and urine-stained hallways, something in me wondered, What will happen to all that beauty? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z "Very rarely, a royal will use her beauty tokens for her child, bypassing the nursery chamber at La Maison. It's quite unusual, but it happens." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But a belief in work ought to be a thing of beauty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But she must hide that beauty in Abnegation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Boy and girl. Aren’t they beauties?” said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z To pass the time, everybody was soon discussing how the tall young Greek with the elegant bearing had become enamored of the dark beauty who was never seen anywhere without her carved olivewood box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Court of Honor produced an effect of majesty and beauty that was far greater than even the dream conjured in the Rookery library. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Come closer, darling child. I’m running low on beauty. You don’t have much, but it’ll be good for a bite or two,” said Madame Bee. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In some contradictory way grief seemed to have etched on Mercy’s thin face a beauty it had never possessed. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z What has never been contested is the beauty and timeless power of the songs the Gershwins created for Porgy and. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Immie was beautiful, and in her beauty you could see that she was kind. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He talked about the beauty and wealth of Africa. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He sees the beauty in the compost pile, and who knows? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But she still remembered the beauty of the world before the King of Adarlan had ordered so much of it burned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "I still have a good eye for clothes. I know just what I want. And I have an appointment at the beauty salon, too. Besides, you have to study. Pick me up in three hours." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They laughed and frolicked in the beauty of the flowers, their cares forgotten for the moment. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And I missed the wilds of Alaska, to run through and in them with a dog team, alone and silent in such staggering beauty. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z People crowded around me, trying to pat the baby who had caused all this excitement—although he was no beauty, with puckered face and mouth opened wide to emit shriek after shriek. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a heart-stopping, ruby-red pinprick of a beauty mark just beneath her eye. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And the glow she had, it wasn’t simply her beauty, or the deep hue of her dress. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Instead Joffrey smiled and kissed her hand, handsome and gallant as any prince in the songs, and said, "Ser Loras has a keen eye for beauty, sweet lady." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Time for my beauty rest. Don’t stay outside too late, or these mosquitoes will eat you alive.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was as though she held her breath and could not let it go until the energy and busyness culminated in a beauty that would dazzle him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Speak to us concerning His unspeakable beauty and danger,” I say, and wait. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z "No, my dear. Not today. You must bond with Princess Sophia. Soon you will be completing all the beauty work for the entire family." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They were the legs of a once quite widely acknowledged public beauty, a vaudevillian, a dancer, a very light dancer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But the crisp beauty conceals fallen trees and washed-out trails, hillsides treacherous with mud and debris. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Holy f —!” she managed before going under again, as if the water sensed that young ladies of such beauty and promise should never curse. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “I’d like you to find the beauty in my cutting off your nose and ears.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Flora Baumbach was taking her to the beauty parlor to have her singed hair cut off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The mere beauty seemed to cheer me; there was peace and comfort in every breath I drew. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The miniature beauty queen had platinum hair, a silver dress, and glittering, translucent wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Every day I thought of them: dogs long gone, old friends passed, and the joy and beauty they gave me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A soggy beauty whose sash identified her as Miss Ohio stumbled out of the surf and sank to her knees, coughing up water and bile. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z My eyes strain to capture one last image of beauty to take with me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She knew what Mrs. Mirabov would say: “Comrade Singh, you must train yourself to be without. Being beauty queen is like being marine, only harder. Marines do not fight in four-inch heels.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The Dawn soon took her throne of gold, and Lord Menelaos, clarion in battle, rose from where he lay beside the beauty of Helen with her shining hair. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And last was Mollie, who was a little beauty with lovely blond hair and violet eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She tried to see past the beauty, to find whatever was behind Shay’s wide, perfect eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Everything beyond its borders may have been withering away, but Central Park was full of fall's royal beauty. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But the beauty was quickly overshadowed by the fearsome sound of rapids just ahead. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He also enjoyed the showy, queer beauty of his horse. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she was writing a book about black beauty, hair, and celebrity. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If I had unhorsed Rhaegar and crowned Ashara queen of love and beauty, might she have looked to me instead of Stark? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And maybe love looks different to different people, the same way beauty looks different. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He bristled at the persistent belief that John Root deserved most of the credit for the beauty of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You can’t buy beauty or pray for it to come in the form of what you see on the television screen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Why are you up so early anyway? Don’t you need your beauty sleep?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z This is a dress I could never have imagined, one so perfect that for a moment, looking at it, I can think of nothing but its beauty. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I put the book back in the base of the beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I look at the beauty board sitting on an easel. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z An elderly couple swept up broken glass and debris along the sidewalk in front of their barbershop/beauty parlor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z No hunger then, no thirst, and for the time that the beauty was in him, no fear. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Burnham treasured beauty but saw none for miles and miles and miles, just coal, rust, and smoke in endless repetition until the train entered the prairie and everything seemed to go quiet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Behind my closed door, I stare at an image of the type of beauty I long to be. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This was the period when Blanca’s beauty was at its peak. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could tell she just got back from the beauty parlor because her hair was frizzed like she had just rammed her fingers into an electric socket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Supper done and my grandmother has transformed the kitchen into a beauty shop. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z There is no sense or beauty in this undergrowth. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheaded girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the middle of our choreography, we split into two groups to make a path for our emcee to walk down and grace the audience with her beauty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And so no doubt he would have done, if Venus had not first shown him Psyche, never thinking in her jealous rage what such beauty might do even to the God of Love himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you go back to bed, Caroline? You look like you could use some more beauty rest.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After the usual histrionics about the deteriorated state of my beauty, they get right down to business. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Patience is the way. It takes a lifetime to create beauty. But one must keep working at it. To add beauty to the world—goodness too—these things are of importance.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z "You do not see the beauty, do you? You have spent too long basking in Ishtar's light." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her beauty, her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her, and to purchase indemnity for every fault. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But Ben knew that there was a girl named Mary Anne in the back seat who could teach Lillian and all the other lovely women in the world things about beauty they would never know. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Irish International Side’s just put in an order for seven of these beauties!” the proprietor of the shop told the crowd. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Children are capable of appreciating beauty in art, music, language, and movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He was an excellent judge of beauty, Zeus told them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It always bummed me out that she could hear the anger but not the beauty in it like I did. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He saw that it was true there was not beauty of any kind in her face—a brown, common, patient face. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z From these days I date my love of the veld, of open spaces, the simple beauties of nature, the clean line of the horizon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was hungry for green vegetables, and that night as I went off to sleep, I thought of the pokeweeds, the dandelions, the spring beauties that would soon be pressing up from the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And who was going to transform this mess into a thing of educational beauty? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z But even her height was nothing compared with her beauty, her fierceness, and her wildness. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It was a relief to escape all that refinement and beauty—to be allowed to be unlovely and not a point of contrast. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I am spinning plans already—of how best to care for my little beauty. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that there was sweat on her face and her expression was not of beauty or elation but something like pain. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I feel close enough to grab one and stow it away in my beauty caisse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The newspapers were filled with stories of her beauty and eloquence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even from a distance, all could see the bracelet’s exquisite beauty and were, for a moment, stunned into silence. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We look at the fighting down below and the peace and beauty up above. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z |
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