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Usage examples of beatrix.

Koningin Beatrix means Queen Beatrix, as in Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and they frown on people naming racehorses after royal persons.

Aunt Beatrix knows a number of people there, and you might get asked out to dinner.

Best carried on a hired car business from the mews behind the flats, and Aunt Beatrix would have no other.

Pretty and Best to organise porters, find the right desk and settle the question of excess baggage, although to give Aunt Beatrix her due, she paid up without a murmur when asked to do so before making her stately progress towards the departure gate.

First class, of course, and Aunt Beatrix, in the nicest possible way, wanting her seat changed, a cushion for her head and the promise of a glass of brandy as soon as they were airborne.

The car waiting for them was a very large Mercedes into which Aunt Beatrix stepped and settled herself comfortably, leaving everyone else to load in the luggage, with Prudence giving advice which only Pretty understood and the porters taking no notice of anyone at all.

Aunt Beatrix took off her gloves, asked Pretty to see that the luggage was brought in and taken to their rooms, and sat down in a massive armchair.

Brons Huizinga, a rather more stately version of Aunt Beatrix, if that were possible, sitting up in bed against a pile of very large linen-covered pillows.

CHAPTER TWO aunt beatrix swam forward and enveloped him in her vast embrace.

Aunt Beatrix asked me to come along too because she was a little uncertain about the diabetes.

If he had noticed that Prudence had been at least twice as long as he had expected, he gave no sign, and presently Aunt Beatrix joined them and they crossed the hall to the dining-room, a forbidding apartment with a massive sideboard weighed down with quantities of silver and a table large enough to seat a dozen people.

Aunt Beatrix, much as she loved her, had behaved quite ruthlessly, no doubt pleased with herself for having found someone to look after both herself and her sister.

She spent an hour or so with Aunt Beatrix after tea, then went to see Aunt Emma.

It was indeed splendid white damask, shining silver and polished glass and a massive centre piece which effectively blocked her view of Aunt Beatrix, resplendent in black velvet.

She cast a glance at Aunt Beatrix, lying with her eyes shut, looking more or less normal again, and whisked herself away.