Bess
[bes]
Examples
- For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- THE JUNGFRAU TO BETH God bless you, dear Queen Bess! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- ROMANCE I Bold Turpin vunce, on Hounslow Heath, His bold mare Bess bestrode--er; Ven there he see'd the Bishop's coach A-coming along the road--er. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Neither my wife nor Bess could e'er say that much again me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The small arm of the previous period, the old Brown Bess, used in the British army for 150 years, was a muzzle-loading, flint-lock musket of the crudest make. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Bess, lass, thou'd believe me, thou wouldst--wouldstn't thou? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Bess, poor lass, had a little stock under her pillow, ready to slip into my hand, last moment, and Mary is fustian-cutting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- After they had introduced the musket with the snap-haunce and wooden ramrod, it became known, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, as the Brown Bess. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Come along, Bess; there's the mill bell ringing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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