"Venerable" British saint

Usage examples of bede.

For the next five years you will receive a reasonable monthly allowance either from these same bank trustees or from one Miss Lillian Bede who, upon my death, has been offered the management of Mill House and who will, at the end of five years, inherit the estate should it demonstrably profit under her management.

Miss Bede is, after all, a nineteen-year-old female and if this pricks your manly pride, so much the better.

Gilchrist and Goode, Solicitors, banged open and Lily Bede burst unceremoniously from the interior.

Miss Bede loses this Mill House, why would Avery have to assume responsibility for her?

Miss Bede had, in her usual subtle way, made known her intention of winning Mill House.

Not She Who Must Be Obeyed, not the Emancipated Miss Bede, not Herself.

Miss Bede is impressed, too, and you are wrong about her thinking your trips are self-indulgent.

Lily Bede stood a foot behind him, hand on hips, spots of carnelian edging each cheekbone.

What else would Lily Bede collect but his bete noir, the one remaining tie to the asthma that had molded and cursed his earliest years?

Lily Bede spent money like this on every meal and hosted conventions for impecunious suffragists, and collected antique race horses as pets, she must be damn near running the estate into the ground.

Avery replied, eyes fixed on the straight figure of Lily Bede eating up the ground in long graceful strides fifty yards ahead.

Lily Bede might actually end her five years as manager here with a small profit to show.

Whatever else Miss Bede is, she is no fool and only a fool would choose a risky venture over a comfortable future.

Miss Bede from anywhere and while your concern for her is noble, remember, even if she does inherit, your mother and aunt would still leave.

Thorne and Miss Bede become involved our reasons are quite dissimilar.