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Nonpareil

noun
1.
Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal.  Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonsuch, paragon, saint.
2.
Colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies.
3.
A flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar.






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"Nonpareil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dakota, for example, where under the initiative the ballot which I hold in my hand was submitted to the people at the recent election. This ballot is 7 feet long and 14 inches wide, and it is crowded with reading matter set in nonpareil type. Upon this ballot there are submitted for the consideration of the people six legislative propositions. Four of them are short and comparatively simple. But here is one referring to the people a law which has been passed ...
— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon

... days—glided down the centuries to Seneca and Caesar, touched upon Adam Smith and Jefferson, and finally landed in the arms of Monroe P. Reed. There he grew fairly ecstatic over his subject. He spoke of him as 'the lawyer sprung, full-armed, from the head of learning,' as the 'nonpareil Democrat who clove, as Ruth to Naomi, to the immortal principles of Virginia Democracy,' and in a glorious period, he rounded off 'the incomparable services which Monroe P. Reed had rendered the deathless cause of the Confederacy!' In an instant the house came down. There was ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... Wood-Thrush, Cat-Bird, and Red Thrush; the Rose-Breasted, Pine, and Blue Grosbeak; the Orchard and Golden Oriole; the Tawny and Hermit Thrushes; several Finches, —Bachmann's, the White-Crowned, the Indigo, and the Nonpareil; and finally, the Bobolink. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... Huguenot, Mende was taken by assault on Christmas Day, 1579, and during three days given up to fire, pillage, and slaughter. A general massacre took place; the cathedral was fired and partially destroyed, the bells, thirteen in number—one of these called the 'Nonpareil,' and reputed the most sonorous in Christendom—being melted down for cannon. All that fiendish cruelty and the demon of destruction could do was done. In vain Henry of Navarre tried to put down atrocities committed in his name. A ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... hear, was opening the door. There came in upon him a woman—the young woman of the coach. Even as he recoiled, bowing, even as he collected his startled wits, he was aware of the singular beauty of her complexion. Its delicacy, its life, were nonpareil. The first clear process of his mind was to wonder how he had contrived not to remark that complexion when ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey

... of the monopoly, was as badly printed as the English one. In order to show how monopoly had failed to secure good work, a gentleman sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury an enormous list of errors which he had found in the Oxford Nonpareil Bible. In an old Scotch edition the apostle is made to say, 'Know ye not that the righteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?' In another edition 'The four beasts of the Apocalypse' are 'sour beasts.' Dr. Lee, afterwards Principal ...
— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie



Words linked to "Nonpareil" :   chocolate candy, model, jimhickey, jimdandy, incomparable, sweet, role model, humdinger, class act, crackerjack, uncomparable, confection



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