12543 examples of belles in sentences

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It is spacious, well paved, aligned with trees, and boast the finest edifices public and private in the whole city; it is the favourite promenade of the beaux and belles of Lyons.

René Rapin, born at Tours in 1621, taught Belles Lettres with extraordinary success among his own order of Jesuits, wrote famous critical works, was one of the best Latin poets of his time, and died at Paris in 1687.

dash'd they, every one; When these same belles began to dire, 'Twas well the workmen 'scaped alive: Brunel, indeed, who knew full well The nature of a diving bell, Remain'd some time, nor made wry faces, Within their aqueous embraces; Nay, fierce and ungallant, adventured To oust them by the breach they entered.

" Longfellow was some dozen years the elder; and when the time came that he wished to retire from the professorship of belles-lettres in Harvard College, he was very desirous that Lowell should take the place.

The beaux are attorneys' apprentices, with chapeau bras and Limerick glovesfiddlers, harp teachers, and clerks of genius: the belles are faded fan-twinkling spinsters, prurient vulgar misses from school, and enormous citizens' wives.

Still, some consider the Brant rather slow, and many good folk were a trifle surprised when Mr. Edwin Salsbury and Mr. Charles Burnham arrived by the late stage from Wikhasset Station, with trunks enough for two first-class belles, and a most unexceptionable man-servant in gray livery, in charge of two beautiful setter-dogs.

"Perhaps Leese thought delay dangerous," I suggested, "for Señorita María Rosalia was one of the belles of the new military outpost at Sonomá and more than one gaily clad caballero was suing for her hand.

The beaux and belles, in linsey-woolsey and buckskins, were assembled from the country around and about.

"I am a professor of belles lettres and philosophy in the Indian College on the Klamath reservation.

In its best days, it was second only to Bath, and little did its belles and beaux dream of the fishified village of Brighthelmstone, in the adjoining county, spreading to a city, and being docked of its syllabic proportions to the Brighton of ears polite.

Steele, in the "Spectator," (1711,) describes the snuff-box as a rival to the fan among ladies; and Goldsmith pictures the belles at Bath as entering the water in full bathing costume, each provided with a small floating basket, to hold a snuff-box, a kerchief, and a nosegay.

Though belles of the less mature description, eulogistic of sophomores, may stoutly profess that they dote on the Virginian perfume, yet cultivated womanhood barely tolerates the choicest tobacco-smoke, even in its freshness, and utterly recoils from the stale suggestions of yesterday.

Neither the Lord Chancellor nor the Archbishop of Canterbury is ever so familiarly known by name and person to the public, as the first tragedian and comedian of the day; and the theatrical belles and heroines are either elevated to the peerage by matrimony, or lowered by the undertaker into Westminster Abbey.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 170.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 114.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 16.

What, for instance, would they substitute for the following very inaccurate expression from the critical belles-lettres of Dr. Blair?

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 5.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 68.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, Foreman's Version, p. 113.

" He meant: "II y a de tres belles pages dans sa carriere militaire.

"And as for beautythere are a dozen belles in Virginia alone almost her equal in loveliness and surely far sweeter, simpler, less spoiled.

'Twas the "Consolation" of Malherbe, and, as Calvert sang, the tenderness and melancholy beauty of both words and music struck the whole company into silence: "'Mais elle était du monde les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin, Et, rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses L'espace d'un matin.

ACADEMIE DES INSCRIPTIONS & BELLES-LETTRES, PARIS.

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