What is "bettles"

Usage examples of "bettles".

Meyers and Bettles had raised their ear flaps, while Malemute Kid had even taken off his mittens.

While their rough-hewn, obsolete ethics recognized the individual prerogative of wiping out blow with blow, they could not bear to think of two good comrades, such as Bettles and McFane, meeting in deadly battle.

The fleeing animal, free of the rabies, but crazed with fright, whipped Bettles off his feet and flashed on up the street.

Then Bettles, revolver in hand and coolly waiting a chance, settled the combat.

That same night, Bettles, who owed a great debt to Malemute Kid, harnessed up Cal Galbraith's dogs, lashed Cal Galbraith, Junior, to the sled, and slipped away in the dark for Stuart River.

At irregular intervals Bettles sent word down from Stuart River regarding the welfare of Young Cal.

These rules had been fathered by the Unquenchable Bettles at a time when his blood ran high, and were remarkable for the terse simplicity of their humor.

But when I still said no, she snatched the pistol from my belt, quick, and as our brother Bettles has spoken, Long Jeff went to the bosom of Abraham before his time.

The Russian half-breed wife of Bettles sought the fireplace, inconsolable, and rocked back and forth, and ever and anon flung white wood-ashes upon her raven hair.

It hain't got no fangs, so I gives it the run o' the room, for it keeps the bettles down.

The room was nearly two hundred feet long and three hundred wide, and the ceiling that roofed it was on four great arches running the width, arches made of rough-hewn wooden beams bolted together with sturdy wooden bolts that studded the length of the rafters like black jewels, one every inch around the joints so that where the beams met it seemed as if a cluster of hard-shelled bettles nested, buzzing.