Beaux

Examples

• And some of your beaux may perhaps be brought to flirt with her, poor thing! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And had you a great many smart beaux there? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Yet I never deceived him, and I endeavoured to live on nothing, at my nurse's in Somers Town, _pour ses beaux yeux_, as long as I possibly could. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In the room downstairs we mustered a tolerably brilliant number of _beaux_ about us, for Paris; but Paris was not London. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Worcester is gone to his papa's, at Badminton; and I, being sworn to constancy, have no other _beaux_ to write about. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When I called on Sophia I generally found two or three beaux talking nonsense to her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• My two beaux seemed bent on sitting each other out; the difficulty was to hit upon subjects for conversation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I tried this method of making a little Whig of myself, _pour les beaux yeux de milord_ Ponsonby. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Va pour les beaux fats et les jolis fripons! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Oh, said Amy, withdrawing her hand, I must never flirt, nor have any beaux again, I must now lead a pure, virtuous, chaste, and proper life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We then drove twice up the Park, and Fanny made an effort to answer the beaux who flocked around the carriage, with cheerfulness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Anne, cried her sister, you can talk of nothing but beaux;you will make Miss Dashwood believe you think of nothing else. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• No sister, cried Lucy, you are mistaken there, our favourite beaux are NOT great coxcombs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Not amongst all the beaux at the Opera (and there were beaux in those days with actual opera hats) was there any one to equal him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She called on Fanny one morning, when her drawing-room was half full of beaux. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Oh, they are talking of their favourite beaux, I dare say. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But perhaps you young ladies may not care about the beaux, and had as lief be without them as with them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Amy had another, near us, for herself and her host of beaux. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Typist: Serena