What is "basts"

Usage examples of "basts".

Henry would save the Basts as he had saved Howards End, while Helen and her friends were discussing the ethics of salvation.

Something might be arranged for the Basts later on, but they must be silenced for the moment.

Helen, rehearsing her commission, noticed nothing: the Basts were in her brain, and she retold the crisis in a meditative way, which might have made other men curious.

The Basts had just been evicted for not paying their rent, and had wandered no one knew whither.