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- noun Obsolete spelling of
beauty .
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Examples
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Sonnet 95 is about the fair angel, not the dark one:How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shameWhich like a canker in the fragrant RoseDoth spot the beautie of thy budding name?
Love in literature 2011
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Mai mommeh who flunked beautie skool gave me a home perm.
dorky jr high pic - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And she that hadde but beautie alone, thoughe her qualities ware not so excellente, yet for her honestie that beside forth was singuler in theim all, founde that beautie and honestie could not be vnmaried.
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Finally no colours of hipocrisie, no meanes to set out more beautie then nature hathe giuen them.
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But if there ware any in whom there happened neither commendacion of beautie nor wit, but onely bare honestie: for her bestowyng was there a meane found, by waie of deuocion, as we terme it when we signifie a respecte of holines in the diede.
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And for that thei sette muche by beautie, thei cary aboute with theim phanelles to defende them from the sonne, and leaue nothyng vndone, that maketh for the bettre grace of their faces.
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But thei that ware taken in adulterie, bothe partes byeng agreed, the man was whipped with a thousand stripes by tale: and the woman had her nose cut of, wherwith beside the shame she had, the whole beautie of her face was disgraced, and disfigured.
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If there ware any that lacked the grace of beautie, yet if she ware wittie, and endewed with qualities (together with her honestie) a small dowrie purchased her a husband in good time.
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When God had in V. daies made perfecte the heauens and the earth, and the furniture of bothe: whiche the Latines for the goodlinesse and beautie thereof, call Mundus, and we (I knowe not for what reason) haue named the worlde: the sixth daie, to the entent there mighte be one to enioye, and be Lorde ooer all, he made the moste notable creature Man.
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At the whiche tyme, she that had beautie and good qualities bothe, found those a sufficient dowrie to purchase her choyse of husbandes.
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