Do we say : "bell" vs "belle" ?

"Quite a pastoral state of innocence all round," returned Miss Belle with a shrug.

There was a tang in the very air that inspired the hearts of small maidens tripping, unlike snails, swiftly and willingly to school; and it was jolly to be back again at the little brown desk beside Diana, with Ruby Gillis nodding across the aisle and Carrie Sloane sending up notes and Julia Bell passing a “chew” of gum down from the back seat.

STEPHEN: Lecherous lynx, to la belle dame sans merci, Georgina Johnson, ad deam qui laetificat iuventutem meam.

'Belle,' said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile, 'I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon.'

The journal was intended only for Bell’s own technical staff, but the companyhad apparently forgotten that most engineering colleges subscribed to it aswell.

BellSouth was buying stock in Prime Management, Southwestern Bell acquiring a cable company in Washington DC, and so forth.

A life of constant inaction, bodily and mental,—the friction of ceaseless ennui and discontent, united to the ordinary weakness which attended the period of maternity,—in course of a few years changed the blooming young belle into a yellow faded, sickly woman, whose time was divided among a variety of fanciful diseases, and who considered herself, in every sense, the most ill-used and suffering person in existence.

Bell, you remember what we were saying about Frederick last night, don’t you?’

I'm nowhere beside you, for Belle has heaps of taste, and you're quite French, I assure you.

Within sight of Bell’s plaque, across a street, is one of the central offices of NYNEX, the local Bell RBOC, on 6 Bowdoin Square.

Mr Bell, the second tenor, was a fair-haired little man who competed every year for prizes at the Feis Ceoil.

Belle would get up, stretch herself lazily, give one or two contemptuous sniffs, go to the opposite side of the hearth and lie down again, and I, wearied and disappointed, went off in search of Martha.

Jerry rung the great bell and helped the young woman out.

Belle, a comely matron, an old sweetheart of Scrooge's.

Margaret tried to take an interest in what pleased her father; but she was too languid to care about any Mr. Bell, even though he were twenty times her godfather.

But remember, the young girl who is a "belle of the ballroom" needs no advice on how to manage a happy situation; no thought spent on how to make a perfect time better.

But Lilly, Belle, Dolly and Kitten are Lillian, Isabel, Dorothy and Katherine in these days, and appropriate hall-marks are not easily found.

As repeated several times in this book, the day of the belle is past; beaux belong to the past too.

A lace handkerchief, a plumy fan, and a bouquet in a shoulder holder finished her off, and Miss Belle surveyed her with the satisfaction of a little girl with a newly dressed doll.

The frigate, the Belle Poule, was cruising in the open sea forthe purpose of finding the cruiser Le Berceau, from which she hadbeen separated by a violent storm.

Mrs. Otis, who, as Miss Lucretia R. Tappan, of West 53d Street, had been a celebrated New York belle, was now a very handsome, middle-aged woman, with fine eyes, and a superb profile.

Those bitter rivals: AT&T, MCI and Sprint—and a crowd of Baby Bells: PacBell, Bell South, Southwestern Bell, NYNEX, USWest, as well as the Bell research consortium Bellcore, and the independent long-distance carrier Mid-American—all were to have their role in the great hacker dragnet of 1990.

In the morning, when I came out, the early church-bell was ringing, and he was walking up and down with his mother.

No one said a word about it, but Sallie offered to dress her hair, and Annie to tie her sash, and Belle, the engaged sister, praised her white arms.

Someone gave the toast of the yacht The Belle of Newport and then someone proposed one great game for a finish.

I've got the mate of the London Belle here; he's a bit overseas and I'm taking him out.

“You shall not call,” said Felton, throwing himself between the duke and the bell placed on a stand encrusted with silver. “

I've never known the bliss of being an undoubted belle until this spring."

"Poor girls don't stand any chance, Belle says, unless they put themselves forward," sighed Meg.

The La Belle Riviere, as brave and beautiful a boat as ever walked the waters of her namesake river, was floating gayly down the stream, under a brilliant sky, the stripes and stars of free America waving and fluttering over head; the guards crowded with well-dressed ladies and gentlemen walking and enjoying the delightful day.

Amongst them we find the names of Drake and Nelson, celebrated in naval heroism; of Wollaston, Young, Playfair, and Bell, in science; of Wren, Reynolds, Wilson, and Wilkie, in art; of Thurlow and Campbell, in law; and of Addison, Thomson, Goldsmith, Coleridge, and Tennyson, in literature.

In those days a little coloured girl, Martha Washington, the child of our cook, and Belle, an old setter, and a great hunter in her day, were my constant companions.

In his famous hymn to the church bell, his symbol for the church, he writes "that among all noble voices none could compare with that of the ringing bell."

In the solemn This exceptional ringing may be caused in two ways -- by the rapid feeding of the sheep bearing the bell, as when the flock breaks into new pasture, which gives it an intermittent rapidity, or by the sheep starting off in a run, when the sound has a regular palpitation.

The locomotive, its great funnel emitting a weird light, with its sharp bell, and its cow-catcher extended like a spur, mingled its shrieks and bellowings with the noise of torrents and cascades, and twined its smoke among the branches of the gigantic pines.

These riotoures three, of which I tell, Long erst than prime rang of any bell, *before Were set them in a tavern for to drink; And as they sat, they heard a belle clink Before a corpse, was carried to the grave.

She pulled at the bell cord by the fireplace.

Mr Bell, in his edition, has properly noticed that there is no explanation of the emblematical import of the medlar-tree, the goldfinch, and the nightingale. “

=TO-DAY'S SPECIALISTS IN SUCCESS= The girl of to-day soon discovers, if she does not know it already, that to be a ballroom belle it is necessary first of all to dance really well.

The mulatto maid put her to bed, brought her a cup of tea as usual, laid everything straight in the room, and went away; but at three in the morning the bell rang again, and the two servants, hastening in at this unwonted summons (for old Catherine usually slept like a baby), had found their mistress sitting up against her pillows with a crooked smile on her face and one little hand hanging limp from its huge arm.

said Mrs. Purkis, turning to Mr. Bell for confirmation of the sad suspicion that now entered her mind. ‘

She had felt that she could be, with ease, the belle of the local dances and she was frightened again when she was little more than a wallflower at her first discreet appearance.

Margaret feared that Mrs. Hepworth would find out that Mr. Bell was playing upon her, in the admiration he thought fit to express for everything that especially grated on his taste.

Think what I've got to do--row round by the Belle in case he's after us."

Then there were business arrangements to be transacted in the study with Mr. Bell; and the latter kept on, sitting over the fire, and talking wearily, long after all business was transacted, and when they might just as well have gone upstairs.

And it is hard to say how far they mighthave gone, but at that moment the bell rang summoning them to service.

As I shall telle thee right now,Say, these be they that would honourHave, and do no kind of labour,Nor do no good, and yet have laud,And that men ween’d that Belle Isaude <76>*Could them not of love wern; could not refuse them her love*And yet she that grinds at the quern mill <77>Is all too good to ease their heart.”

But it was only here and there that the name came in, or any Milton name, indeed; and Margaret was sitting one evening, all alone in the Lennoxes’s drawing-room, not reading Dixon’s letters, which yet she held in her hand, but thinking over them, and recalling the days which had been, and picturing the busy life out of which her own had been taken and never missed; wondering if all went on in that whirl just as if she and her father had never been; questioning within herself, if no one in all the crowd missed her, (not Higgins, she was not thinking of him,) when, suddenly, Mr. Bell was announced; and Margaret hurried the letters into her work-basket, and started up, blushing as if she had been doing some guilty thing.

Margaret was in a state of almost trembling eagerness, while Mr. Bell discussed his plan with her aunt Shaw, who was first startled, then doubtful and perplexed, and in the end, yielding rather to the rough force of Mr. Bell’s words than to her own conviction; for to the last, whether it was right or wrong, proper or improper, she could not settle to her own satisfaction, till Margaret’s safe return, the happy fulfilment of the project, gave her decision enough to say, ‘she was sure it had been a very kind thought of Mr. Bell’s, and just what she herself had been wishing for Margaret, as giving her the very change which she required, after all the anxious time she had had.’

The bell calls to service,” he askedagain, but again Alyosha gave no answer.