Do we say beau or bow

beau 806 occurrences

"Virge was a great beau in his day," continued Pap, reminiscently.

" Mr. Wenham looked vexed, or indignant would be a better word, but he succeeded in preserving his coolnessa thing that is not always easy to one of provincial habits and provincial education, when he finds his own beau idéal lightly estimated by others.

"And I've got some beau-fler flowers to my auntie's house.

LLOYD KITTREDGE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "'We'll show 'em, eh, Caesar?'" "'Alice,' he cried ... 'Say it isn't true'" "'I want you,' he said in a low voice" "'I didn't resign; I was discharged'" "On the floor lay a man" "'Ask Beau Cocono,' he called back" "'Alice, I am innocent'" "'Have one?' said M. Paul, offering his cigarette case" "'There it lies to the left of that heavy doorway'" "'Cherche!'

Il nous faut-o Beau Cocono-o!

While other leaders of the Union distinguished for their birth, talents, or principles (and it is remarkable that they were all protestants), filled up the seats near the head of the table; more mixed groups less distinguished by the beau sang, which then came forth, in the fine forms of the genuine Irish gentry of both sects, were congregated in the obscurity of the bottom of the roomLady Morgan's O'Briens and O'Flahertys.

In the way she handled this son of hers Stella Kamps had been as crafty and skilful and velvet-gloved as a girl with her beau.

On went the Whirlwind, showing many capers One would hardly deem it meet to tell; Dusting Judge and Parsonflirting gown and papers, Discomposing matron, beau and belle.

You don't wish't you'd stayed down in Balt'mer and got you a city beau?"

8.) "Not a pine | in my grove | is there seen, But with ten | -drils of wood | -bine is bound; Not a beech | 's more beau | -tiful green, But a sweet | -briar twines |

Though Beau | -ty may bleed, Yet Beau | -ty shall still | be victo | -r~io~us.

Though Beau | -ty may bleed, Yet Beau | -ty shall still | be victo | -r~io~us.

"To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl's employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments.

Key and ley are pronounced kee, lee. TRIPHTHONGS BEGINNING WITH E. Eau, a French triphthong, sounds like open o; as in beau, flambeau, portmanteau, bureau: except in beauty, and its compounds, in which it is pronounced like open u, as if the word were written buty.

In the Preface to the "Reformation," a beau is only directed to venture to abuse a new play, if he knows, the author is no fighter.

" "Elle mit son plus beau chapeau, son chapeau bleu" ... and then?

I don't think we have any right to blame her, if Rebecca did not set her heart upon the conquest of this beau, for she had no kind parents to arrange these delicate matters for her.

When he first entered Parliament a contemporary observer wrote: "It would be difficult to imagine a more complete beau-ideal of aristocracy.

He looked so handsome, proud, and brave, As he stood there, straight and tall, With his steadfast eyes, so gray, so grave, The beau of the Hunt Club ball.

Three young maidens sat in a row, With three grim dragons behind 'em; And each of these maidens had a young beau, And they all of 'em made 'em mind 'em.

Sahwah was a poor hand to regard a boy as a "beau."

I loves to be de beau o' de ladies!

To tell the truth, Dominique was something of a beau.

Beau Wyndham, by Georgette Heyer, pseud.

à son beau-père Stanislas, puis au Maréchal de Saxe, il revint ensuit à la couronne; et en 1777 Louis XVI.

bow 5379 occurrences

There has been no propaganda as yet appealing to women to value dress according to durability and comfort rather than according to its prettiness, to bow to no fashion which means the lessening of power.

We'll not insult thy majesty by time, Person, and placethe where, the when, the how, And all particulars that dull brains require To constitute the spiritless shape of Fact, They bow to, calling the idol, Demonstration.

Thus, from day to day, Bow-bent, his eyes for ever on the ground, He plies his weary journey; seeing still, And seldom knowing that he sees, some straw, Some scattered leaf, or marks which, in one track, 55 The nails of cart or chariot-wheel have left Impressed on the white road,in the same line, At distance still the same.

"Bow-wow!" barked the little poodle dog, and I suppose he was saying: "Oh, can't I have it a little while?

"Bow-wow!" barked the little poodle dog.

The Lord of the earth and all that therein is; before whom all men, even proud Pharaoh, must bow and confess, 'Is anything too hard for the Lord?'

He will shoot three arrows toward the place where David is in hiding; and if he says to his bow-bearer, The arrows are on this side of thee, David is to come; for he is safe.

And at sight of the elegantly attired lady he bounced out of his chair, swept his silk hat to the ground, and executed a deep bow of the most extreme politeness.

" "The pogs of Madame, my spouse," said M. Bonnechose, with a bow and a solemn expression.

Here at last he was in safety, beyond the reach of all dispute, in a secure banishment where he could more easily avoid the interdict or more secretly bow to it.

An edict given at Woodstock ordered that no man who during the war had been in arms against the king should come to his court without a special order; that no man should remain in his court after the setting of the sun, or should come to it before the sun rising; in the England that lay west of the Severn, none might carry bow and arrow or pointed knife.

Afterwards, the emperor approached, mounted on a great black horse, with white feet, richly caparisoned with brocade housings, which had been sent to him by Mirza Uleg Beg, and haying two attendants on each side at the saddle-bow.

At length on the 4th of January, one of the people who sat in the bow of the boat, descried somewhat to leeward which he conceived to be the shadow of land, and immediately informed the crew of his discovery in an anxious voice.

In the beginning of May, the women usually begin to bathe; and custom and purity of morals has made it a law among them, that they should first strip themselves quite naked at home, and they then go to the bath at the distance of a bow-shot from the house.

They could not have acted otherwise, and yet it is humiliating for them to have to bow before superior force, and their authority is compromised by so doing.

Landmarks for Christian Scientists from Bow to Boston.

Murder in the big bow. SEE OURSLER, FULTON.

Murder in the big bow.

Murder in the big bow. SEE OURSLER, FULTON.

KUCZBORSKI, CASE. Bow-legged brain!

One crowning horror, though, they have been always spared, for no maid or matron of Chitor ever deigned to bow her neck beneath the yoke of the Mogul, but rather dared to face a fiery death in the bowels of the great cavern beneath the city than yield her honour to the conqueror.

Jack has more business than he can conveniently transact in one house; he has therefore one habitation near Bow-church, and another about a mile distant.

Then he kissed her, jerked a bow at Miss Pillbody, and made his exit into the hall.

Having thus fortified ourselves in the ships about a bow-shot from the land, the Indians, who were a peaceable good-natured people, came in their canoes to sell provisions and such things as they had for our commodities.

For this purpose the lieutenant landed with fifty men well armed, and advanced to a hill about a bow-shot from the town in which the rebels had taken up their quarters, whence he sent the two messengers who had been with them before, requiring the captain of the mutineers to enter into a conference for ending all disputes.

Do we say   beau   or  bow