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beaton
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n. (surname: English)
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Beaton is a Scottish surname in the English language , which has multiple origins. One origin of the name is from the placename of Béthune , in Pas-de-Calais , France . Another derivation is from the mediaeval personal name Beaton , Beton , which is pet ...
Usage examples of beaton.
He began talking about Beaton to the Marches as they climbed the station stairs together.
All this involved now the unavailing regret of Alma Leighton, and now his reconciliation with her they were married in Grace Church, because Beaton had once seen a marriage there, and had intended to paint a picture of it some time.
Hobby Show were Newell Cady, Upton Beaton, and Chief Stanley Atkins, and they moved slowly along the great assemblage of tables on which the entries were displayed.
His father was a Scotchman, but Beaton was born in Syracuse, New York, and it had taken only three years in Paris to obliterate many traces of native and ancestral manner in him.
This was when he had carried a plastic study so far that the sculptors who saw it said that Beaton might have been an architect, but would certainly never be a sculptor.
In one of the hushes there came a blow on the outside of the door that made Beaton jump, and swear with a modified profanity that merged itself in apostrophic prayer.
Fulkerson squared his feet in front of the bust and compared it by fleeting glances with the old man as he got stiffly up and suffered Beaton to help him on with his thin, shabby overcoat.
He put a card on the table beside the envelope, and Beaton allowed him to go without making him take the check back.
By this time Beaton was in possession of one of those other selves of which we each have several about us, and was again the laconic, staccato, rather worldlified young artist whose moments of a controlled utterance and a certain distinction of manner had commended him to Mrs.
In spite of his shame about the Leightons, Beaton had no present intention of looking them up or sending Mrs.
She flew downstairs, and flitted swiftly into the room, and fluttered up to Beaton, and gave him a crushing handshake.
In the morning it seemed to Beaton that he had done himself injustice.
He led the way into the front room, flirting an airy farewell to Beaton with his hand as he went.
Besides, March was aware of the gulf that divided him as a literary man from Beaton as an artist, and he only ventured to feel his way toward sympathy with him.
Lindau makes a first-rate Judas, and Beaton has got a big thing in that head if he works the religious people right.