The late Sir Henry Dudley Bate, editor of The Morning Herald, was the first person who introduced females into the columns of a newspaper.

They all belong to Pickering, and Bates is the biggest rascal of the bunch.” “Humph!

Joe Bates was a clever fellowas warm a friend and as quiet a companion as you would wish to meet in time of peace; but he hated like he lovedwith all his heart, and would go through fire and death to get at a foe.

My rage must fasten upon some one, and Bates was the nearest target for it.

He had, with his connections, the Bates, I believe, been the founder of Herculaneum, and was solicitous to secure it a share of the lead trade, which had been so long and exclusively enjoyed by St. Genevieve.

Bates was the most incomprehensible human being I had ever known.

Make-Bates, distant Relations, poor Kinsmen, and indigent Followers, are the Fry which support the Oeconomy of an humoursome rich Man.

But as I crossed the threshold of the library I formulated this note: “Bates is a liar, for one thing, and a person with active enemies for another; watch him.”

BATES (1 syl.), a soldier in the army of Henry V. He with Court and Williams are sentinals before the English camp at Agincourt, and the king disguised comes to them during the watch, and talks with them respecting the impending battle,Shakespeare, Henry V. Bates (Charley), generally called "Master Bates," one of Fagin's "pupils," training to be a pickpocket.

John Bates was the captain, because he knew most about such fightin' matters; he learned it of Marion.

“Now, Bates,” he said, with a ring of authority and speaking in a louder key than he had yet used, “it’s your duty under all the circumstances to help discover the hidden assets of the estate.