"Bete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dertmouth, Plymouth, the third it is Fowey: And gaue hem helpe and notable puisance With insistence set them in gouernance Vpon pety Bretayne for to werre. Those good sea men would no more differre, But bete hem home and made they might not rowte, Tooke prisoners, and made them for to lowte. And efte the Duke, an ensample wise, Wrote to the king as he first did deuise, Him excusing: But our men wood With great power passed ouer the floode And werred foorth into the Dukes londe, And ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... c'que je trouve de plus bete, C'est qu' i' faut financer Avec ma belle galette, J'aimerai ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... he that wyll openly manace and threte With worde and hande, as he wolde sle adowne ryght Is oft scant abyll a symple hounde to bete. For in his worde is all his force and myght And he that alway thretenyth for to fyght. Oft at the profe is skantly worth a hen For greattest crakers ar nat ...
— The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt
... some distance in the rear. The ravishing beauty of the girl was more than the amorously-disposed stranger could resist, and suddenly throwing his arms around her he sought to kiss her. But the soft-eyed fawn of the desert soon showed herself in the guise of a petit bete sauvage. With a startling scream she bounded away from ...
— The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief • Joseph Edmund Collins
... the opinion of Degas that "le peintre en general est bete," and most people seem to think that Cezanne was no exception to the rule. Before agreeing, I should want to know what precisely they understood by the word "bete." Cezanne was silly certainly, but he was not stupid: he was limited and absurd, but not ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell
... blanchatre autour de son cou. On le trouve tous les jours aux dits salons, ou il demeure, digere, s'il y a de quoi dans son interieur, respire, tousse, eternue, dort, et ronfle quelquefois, ayant toujours le semblance de lire. On ne sait pas s'il a une autre gite que cela. Il a l'air d'une bete tres stupide, mais il est d'une sagacite et d'une vitesse extraordinaire quand il s'agit de saisir un journal nouveau. On ne sait pas pourquoi il lit, parcequ'il ne parait pas avoir des idees. Il vocalise rarement, mais en revanche, il fait des bruits nasaux ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
... carried out successfully. Not a hint must get to Drummond that there was any change in the activities of the Junta. As for the Junta itself, there was no one of those who believed implicitly in Santos whom Constance need fear, except Gordon. Gordon was the bete noire. ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... rede you in the devil's name, Ye come not here to make men game; By Termagaunt that maketh grame, I shall to-bete thine head. ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... she went on; "that's only the view he himself takes—or, to do him perfect justice, the idea he candidly imputes to me; though without, I imagine—for I don't go so far as that—attributing to me anything so unutterably bete as a ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... villain of a concierge at Edmond's studio swore at him twice, and Sunday, when Edmond and I were breakfasting late, the old beast saw 'Loisette' on the stairs and threw water over her; she is a sale bete, that grosse femme! She shall see what it will cost her, the old miser; and you know I have always been most amiable with her. She is jealous of me—that is it—oh! I am certain of it. Because I am young and happy. Jealous of me! that's funny, is it not? The old ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith
... modern books are those in which the central figure is himself or herself an exception, a cripple, a courtesan, a lunatic, a swindler, or a person of the most perverse temperament. Such stories, for instance, are Sir Richard Calmady, Dodo, Quisante, La Bete Humaine, even the Egoist. But in a fairy tale the boy sees all the wonders of fairyland because he is an ordinary boy. In the same way Mr. Samuel Pickwick sees an extraordinary England because he is an ordinary old gentleman. He does not see things ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... lettre was open & rad; purpose to kill [Th]e bretouns & alle men were mad, the messengers, And wolde [th]e messager scle:— but Arthur "Nay," seyd Arthour, "per de, 236 forbids it, That were a[gh]enst alle kynde, A messager to bete or bynde; y charge alle men here for to make ham good chere." 240 And after Mete sanz fayl Wy[th] hys lordes he hadde counsayl; And alle asented [th]er to, and resolves to Arthour to Rome scholde ...
— Arthur, Copied And Edited From The Marquis of Bath's MS • Frederick J. Furnivall
... of the fust officer, Mr Wilson, an amiable man and a thorough sailor, whom everybody liked—quite the reverse of the odious Tompkins, Tom's and Charley's special bete-noir— and a large number of the seamen, whom they were forced to leave behind in hospital at Beyrout, the complement of the ship was much reduced, and her crew now mustered, officers and men, but twenty in number, of which total twelve were Englishmen who had originally ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... Oh! how bete you English are to applaud such a man! You have only one poet, haven't you—one living poet? Ah! I shouldn't have laughed if ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... buildings have sunk into the soft ground and become completely covered by deposits of mud. So, as at Memphis, all that now remains of ancient Heliopolis, or On, is one granite obelisk, standing alone in the fields; while at other places, such as Tamai or Bete-el-Haga near Mansurah, practically nothing ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly
... some of these female darlings she began presently to write about my unworthy self, and it was with a sentiment of extreme satisfaction I found at length that the widow was growing dreadfully afraid of me; calling me her bete noire, her dark spirit, her murderous adorer, and a thousand other names indicative of her extreme disquietude and terror. It was: 'The wretch has been dogging my chariot through the park,' or, 'my fate pursued me at church,' and 'my ...
— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray
... included the not inconsiderable class of American respectabilities who were feeble in American sentiments, and who belonged by nature and affiliation to the established order. These were the loyalists, destined to be designated as Tories, and to become the bete noire ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath
... certaine yonge man of the towne well acquoyntyd with thys yeman told him that suche a carter hadde layne by his wyfe. To whome this yeman of the garde sware by Goddes body, if he mette with hym it should go harde but he wolde bete him well. Hey, quod the yonge man, if ye go streyght euen nowe the right way, ye shall ouertake him dryuyng a carte laden with haye towarde London; wherfore the yeman of the garde incontynent rode after this carter, and within shorte space overtoke him and ...
— Shakespeare Jest-Books; - Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed - to Have Been Used by Shakespeare • Unknown
... 25,000 pounds down, which does not pay all the young man's debts. Lord A(bergavenny) gives them a thousand a year. He is a weak, good-tempered young man, or, as the King of Prussia called an acquaintance of mine, the Comte de Bohn, une belle bete. ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... trois ou quatre amis, honnetes gens, incapables de gauchir en quoique ce soit, pour n'avoir pas fleche devant la bete, aient ete qualifies de cabalistes."—De Goutin au Ministre, 4 ...
— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman
... remember when I first played La Fille aux cheveaux de lin for him, and came to a bit of counterpoint I had introduced in the violin melody, whistling the harmonics, he nodded approvingly with a 'pas bete ca!' (Not ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... in grece oer in oyle, take it and lay it in rede wyne. grynde it with raisouns take hony and do it in a pot and cast erinne gleyres [2] of ayrenn wi a litel water and bete it wele togider with a sklyse [3]. set it ouer the fires and boile it. and whan the hatte [4] arisith to goon [5] ouer, take it adoun and kele it, and whan it is er clarified; do it to the oere with sugur and spices. salt it and loke it be stondyng, ...
— The Forme of Cury • Samuel Pegge
... s'exclamait: "C'est le plus grand evenement qui se soit passe au monde, et c'en est le meilleur." Il croyait que tout serait fini avec le demantelement de la vieille forteresse symbolique et ne prevoyait pas qu'elle pouvait etre sitot reconstituee: l'idee que le peuple serait assez bete pour se forger, benevolement, des chaines pour s'entraver lui-meme ne lui etait point apparue. Par contre, Burke etait pessimiste. Il ne voyait la que "la vieille ferocite parisienne," et se demandait si, apres tout, ce peuple n'est pas impropre ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... about him. However, I shall begin work at once by writing and collecting the vulnerable points of the clique. ——- is a very much hated man, and there will be no difficulty." On the 8th, in reference to the opposing "clique," Burton writes: "In my own case I should encourage a row with this bete noire; but I can readily understand your having reasons for wishing to keep it quiet." Naturally, considering the tactics that were being employed against them, the Villon Society, which published Mr. Payne's works, had no wish to draw the attention of the authorities to the moral question. ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... fingered, titillated, kissed it, out went my tongue; it played lightly over the clitoris, then baudy frenzy seized me, and I licked and sucked her cunt. She wriggled, scarce knowing what I was about, when pushing my head away she cried out, "oh! mon Dieu, ah! quelle bete! aho!" ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous |
