What is "bess"

Usage examples of "bess".

Bess, thought better of her theft and returned the letter to Appleton Manor.

Friedman kept assuring her they were fine, and when Sylvia finally saw the oldfashioned bassinette Bess had chosen tufted in white satin and trimmed with tiny blue bows she became as excited as her mother-in-law.

Their trek took them from tundra fells and bess plains to reedy forest lakes, from lush bogs to windy knolls and grassy meadows bright with summer blooms.

Everyone from the bootboy to the butler wanted the child to be accepted, it seemed to Bess.

BESS, too, had taken a boutonniere from the box, and gone out into the vestibule to find Michael.

Pulling the scarf from her head, Bess Curran knocked at the door of number 206.

Bess and Michael Curran were married in a simple service in the rectory of St.

For Bygones she placed Bess Curran in the town where the Spencers themselves live- LaVyrle Spar Stillwater, Minnesota.

A faint smile curved her lips and shone in her eyes, and Stafford was so fascinated by the sudden gleam of girlishness that he had to bend and pat Bess, who was planting dusty impression on his trousers in her frantic efforts to gain his attention.

To manufacture ammunition there were five hundredweight of lead in bars, fifty pounds of pewter to harden the balls to be used against heavy game, twenty thousand prepared lead musket balls, twenty kegs of first-class sporting gunpowder for the rifles and a hundred kegs of coarse black powder for the Brown Bess muskets, two thousand gunflints, greased patches to ensure a tight fit of the conical bullets in the rifle bore, fine cotton cloth to be cut into more patches, and a large keg of rendered hippopotamus fat to grease them.

The photographs on the wall were striking: one little black girl with enormous wistful eyes, Jimmy Carter in shirtsleeves at a Habitat site, the Somalian bandit he had mentioned to Bess.

Bess Houdini, with a bright ribbon in her hair and red polish on her lips.

Over two hours later Yael was sitting in front of the television set, watching a basketball game, when Bess came into the living room.

Bess looked up to see Yael standing in the entrance to the Iris Johansen waiting room.

After the last show, Harry and I had taken Bess back home and wolfed down a couple of bowls of borscht with brown bread.