Example sentences of "beautiful as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall leave now , ’ Philippa continued , suddenly standing , beautiful as a lily . |
| 2 | This tree , though , was as beautiful as a miracle , for it was very tall , and bore leaves , flowers , and fruit , all at the same time ; the leaves were green as emerald , the flowers white as snow , and the pears fine , large , and glossy , big as your two fists put together . |
| 3 | Anyway , she looked as beautiful as a rose in her tube dress , arching her neck , turning her flowerlike head , pouting professionally , smiling . |
| 4 | I held her to me as we fell across the bed , feeling her lithe life-force twitching against me as beautiful as a rainbow trout , leaping from a mill race into my outstretched arms . |
| 5 | Rachel Santerre stood there , looking as beautiful as a summer 's dawn though her face was pale with dark rings round the eyes . |
| 6 | She thought that this view was perhaps not as beautiful as a view of Blackmoor Vale , which she knew so well . |
| 7 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 8 | Beautiful as the day . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She 's going to be as beautiful as the Queen of Egypt , and as clever as King Solomon . ’ |
| 10 | Everything in art depends on execution : the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander . |
| 11 | Almost as beautiful as the dress you are wearing . |
| 12 | As I turned this thought over in my mind it became as sparkling and as beautiful as the morning itself . |
| 13 | Beautiful as the creature is , and instructive as the study of its behaviour has been , the octopus did not prove to be god 's organism for the elucidation of memory . |
| 14 | Amabel smiled at her now as she sat by Gemma 's bedside tranquilly embroidering a cambric handkerchief , patient and beautiful as an angel and so terribly wronged . |
| 15 | ‘ As beautiful as an angel , ’ Maggie assured her . |
| 16 | My parents remembered her and often spoke of her , saying that her flight was as beautiful as an autumn sunset . |
| 17 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |