Fondare 81 Risultati per: Inner Beauty
and no sooner did these catch sight of her, than they fell into a great wonderment of her beauty. (Judith 10, 7)
Her story told, they must next scan her face; and now their eyes dazzled with the admiration they had of her beauty. (Judith 10, 14)
Her very sandals thralled his eyes; he lay there, his heart beauty’s prisoner, while the sharp steel pierced his neck through. (Judith 16, 11)
They were to bring queen Vasthi into the king’s presence, wearing the royal crown, so that he might display her person to the rabble as well as to his lords; hers was no common beauty. (Esther 1, 11)
And now his courtiers and attendants offered him their counsel, It is time we made search for beauty and maidenhood, to console the king’s grace. (Esther 2, 2)
It would be well if commissioners were sent into all the provinces, to look out fair damsels that are maidens still, and bring them here to Susan. There let them be handed over to the chamberlain Egeus, that has charge of the women’s quarters in the palace, and an allowance be made them for adding art to their beauty, and for all else they need. (Esther 2, 3)
A ward this man had, a niece of his called Edissa, or Esther, that had lost both her parents. Beauty was hers of form and face, and when her parents died, Mardochaeus adopted her as his own daughter. (Esther 2, 7)
It was a full twelvemonth before a maiden’s turn came, to be the king’s bride; first she must add art to her beauty, anointing herself for six months with oil, and for six with paints and powders. (Esther 2, 12)
So the day came when it was the turn of Esther, Abihail’s child, daughter now to his brother Mardochaeus, to be a king’s bride. For her adorning, she had no request to make; let the chamberlain Egeus, since the maidens were under his charge, deck her as he would. But oh, she was fair; she had beauty past all belief, to win men’s favour and their love. (Esther 2, 15)
Laid aside were those royal robes of hers, her array must tell only of grief and lament; dust and dung should be all her anointing now. Her body she tamed with fasting; only her torn locks hung where once she had loved to adorn her beauty. (Esther 14, 2)
Alluring beauty of flushed cheek and shining eye hid a heart grief-stricken, a heart chilled with an overwhelming fear. (Esther 15, 8)
and wasting all his beauty, death in its primal guise shall devour those limbs.✻ (Job 18, 13)
