What is "bettie"

Usage examples of "bettie".

Deford told her Yorkburg did not need to be washed and ironed, and Lizzie Bettie Pryor wrote her a note informing her Southern people had no sympathy with Northern ideas, and if she wished to keep her old friends in Yorkburg she should be more careful in making new acquaintances.

Chapter XIV A MORNING TALK Miss Lizzie Bettie Pryor lifted the heavy black veil with which her face was covered and looked up and down the long dusty street, half asleep in the full heat of a July day.

The requirements of custom were punctiliously observed by Miss Lizzie Bettie, and though two months had passed since the death of her father she had paid no visits to friends or relatives, and this first one was now being made in the expectation of a talk alone with Mrs.

Deford was saying, and, as Miss Lizzie Bettie came nearer, jumped as if caught in an unrighteous act.

Lily, get Lizzie Bettie a glass of iced tea, or would you rather have lemonade?

Miss Lizzie Bettie unpinned her hat and veil and laid them on the chair behind her, drew off her gloves and, opening her bag of dull jet beads, took from it a handkerchief with a heavy black border, and wiped her lips with careful deliberation.

Miss Lizzie Bettie Pryor took up her gloves and pulled out each finger separately.

Deford looked Miss Lizzie Bettie in the face, and this time her head was not on the side.

With a hurried apology they passed on, but not before Miss Lizzie Bettie had seen who they were.

Some one told me Lizzie Bettie was trying to make her mother and Maria go away.

Lizzie Bettie, how Mary Cary fought for brick pavements instead of asphalt, because she said they suited Yorkburg better.

Half a dozen voices repeated the name, but Miss Lizzie Bettie Pryor was the first to protest.

Bettie Duvall crossed to the vestibule, where David stood, shivering slightly despite a heavy, brand-new, only slightly adapted Union army overcoat, bought on the sly at half price from an army quartermaster.