Sentence examples for beautiful and virtuous from inspiring English sources

According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus.

When Tom is a young man, he falls in love with Sophia Western, his beautiful and virtuous neighbour.

The beautiful and virtuous girl marries the stolid Prince of Clèves, but then falls in love with the dashing and seductive Duke de Nemours.

I, too, wanted to be beautiful and virtuous like Xi Shi, but distressing questions began to assert themselves when I reëxamined the story.

There's a long literary tradition of heroines who are both beautiful and virtuous; we believe Emma is beautiful, so we assume she's good.

Mandodari grows up to be a beautiful and virtuous girl.

Every three years, the emperor would summon these young women to Beijing, so that he could select the most beautiful, healthy and virtuous ones to be his wives.

But its theatricality, both of the showy, expensive kind (rising and falling chandeliers, mysterious mirrors and underground lagoons) and of the more potent, elemental kind (obsessive love and beautiful sopranos and virtuous aristocrats), remains intact.

Dulcibella, like Dulcinea, represents beauty, inspiration, and virtuous love.

Inflated through the ages into an almost impossibly beautiful, virtuous and brave woman, despite a fairly scanty historical record, Mumtaz Mahal accompanied him to war, and bore him 14 children, the last birth killing her at the age of 39.

He said that the symbolic red hat belonged to the "wider religious fellowship" of New York as well and praised the city as embracing "all that is beautiful and true and liberating and life-giving and virtuous".