"Bete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... la bete un esprit agissant. Chaque fleur est une ame a la nature eclose; Un mystere d'amour dans le metal repose. "Tout est sensible!" et tout sur ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... is a droll gambling," murmured Chanrellon. "But—if you win, do you think we shall let you go off to our enemies? Pas si bete, monsieur!" ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... It is everything most bete what you say. You have many friends, and as for me, I do not care a straw for the money. Only if I had known I would not have ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford
... power of custom does not go quite so far," said Lady Anne. "It does not extend to Caliban, or even to the hero of La Belle et La Bete; but I do believe, that, in a mind so well regulated as yours, esteem may certainly in time be improved into love. I will tell Mr. Vincent ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth
... turn. For the days are gone by when the Seigneur ruled and profited. 'Le Seigneur,' says the old formula, 'enferme ses manants comme sous porte et gonds, du ciel a la terre. Tout est a lui, foret chenue, oiseau dans l'air, poisson dans l'eau, bete an buisson, l'onde qui coule, la cloche dont le son au loin roule.' Such was his old state of sovereignty, a local god rather than a mere king. And now you may ask yourself where he is, and look round for vestiges of my late lord, and in all the country-side there is no trace of him but his forlorn ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson
... when it comes to a case of life and death. You'll become only a kind of licensed midwife rushing about from one accouchement to another, and, even for this, you must finesse and intrigue in the manner which has made the incompetents of your sex in medicine the bete ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart
... wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted &c 510; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute[obs3]; quick-witted, nimble- witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to &c (cognizant) 490; clever &c. (apt) 698; arch &c (cunning) 702; pas si bete[Fr]; acute &c 682. wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens[Lat], judicious, strong-minded. unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted[obs3], unprepossessed[obs3]; undazzled[obs3], unperplexed[obs3]; unwarped judgment[obs3], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... the mood to do much. I work in my garden intermittently, and the harvest bug (bete rouge we call him here) gets in his work unintermittently on me. If things were normal this introduction to the bete rouge would have seemed to me a tragedy. As it is, it is unpleasantly unimportant. I clean house intermittently; read intermittently; write letters ...
— A Hilltop on the Marne • Mildred Aldrich
... Le public est si bete. I've read every line you've written, I believe. [He bows.] I—I have felt proud to think that we were once—that ...
— The Big Drum - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero |
