Ideal

Usage examples of paragon.

Dame Honeyball was a likely, plump, bustling little woman, and no bad substitute for that paragon of hostesses, Dame Quickly.

Nicholas Mannering, from all reports, was an odious monster of ill nature, such as in comparison would make Sandor look a veritable paragon.

Judge Stratus turned out to be a fat and affable paragon of efficiency.

Compared to our sisters in other places and times, women on Anicca were paragons of restraint.

Reagan and the two Bushes were and are not only great political leaders but also paragons of truth and morality, and that Bill Clinton and the Democrats are exemplars of debauchery and deceit, let us agree that neither of these extreme sentiments are quite accurate.

Then listen carefully and you will see how in the blink of an eye I confound all your difficulties and remedy all the problems that you say bewilder you and make you fearful to bring to light the history of your famous Don Quixote, the paragon and model of all knights errant.

Housekeeper, handyman, messenger, cellarer, paragon of trust and loyalty: Lorenz Beildeck stayed with me till he died.

Before the arrival of this paragon, however, Molly was surprised to see herself come nervously but determindedly into the Muckrakers Club inquiring for her daughter.

Constituent from Rennes who had been celebrated for seating himself in the Estates-General in a plain brown fustian coat, apparently the very paragon of bucolic simplicity promoted in the Rousseauean code of social morality.

Paragon had his thickly muscled arms crossed over his bare chest as he faced out over the glinting water to where other ships came and went from the harbor.

He worshiped Aeled as a paragon of thegnhood who gathered more loot with fewer losses than any other raider currently active.

The Jubilee Diamond, a superb 245-carat cushion of unearthly fire fashioned out of 650-carat rough - then the biggest of them all, a monstrous rough stone of 3,106 carats, the Cullinan which yielded not one, but two paragons.

Paragon, to help her, but even my strongest healing incantations were not enough.

Of all these paragons none ever tasted more of this persecution than poor Sophia.

Built on legs that looked remarkably like those of a locust, Paragons could leap great distances, and the claws on their feet could shred sheet steel.