" Jimmy Joe Belle, when asked plainly, confessed that his "young ones" had come out with measles the very day after they had been at New Moon.
"Cousin Jimmy has got Jimmy Joe Belle to help with the harvest.
His wife was a great beauty and had been a belle in the Old Country.
These decorations proved her popularity in very much the same way as do the cotillion favors hanging on the bedroom walls of the fashionable belle.
" "It must have been Clara Belle, and I should never call her remarkable," answered Miss Miranda.
It was at this juncture that Clara Belle and Susan Simpson consulted Rebecca, who threw herself solidly and wholeheartedly into the enterprise, promising her help and that of Emma Jane Perkins.
George, a lanky boy of fourteen, did chores on neighboring farms, and the others, Samuel, Clara Belle, Susan, Elijah, and Elisha, went to school, when sufficiently clothed and not otherwise more pleasantly engaged.
" "They'd yell when they was murdered," objected Alice; "you know how silly they are at plays, all except Clara Belle.
" She laughs, she chats; good-humoured, buxom, and blooming, she looks, at all points, the bourgeoise belle.
—à vrai dire je ne suis pas fâché, peut-être même suis je content qu'on s'est fait si belle pour ma petite fête.
I know where you have been spending your vacation, and how you have commenced sacrificing to the graces, and enjoying life like any other belle.
I had noticed their gathering, while Graham and his mother were engaged in discussing the belle in blue satin, and had watched with interest the process of arraying and marshalling them.
" And she sneered, for I was not "belle.
" "Quelle belle nuit!
"Kenneth MacNair was a first cousin of the Awkward Man's grandfather, and Ursula Townley was the belle of the Island in her day.
Belle went with your brother, and John drove Maria.
Ward; lawyer Riverson, the new notable from a distance; next the belle of the village, followed by a troop of lawn-clad and ribbon-decked young heart-breakers; then all the young clerks in town in a body—for they had stood in the vestibule sucking their cane-heads, a circling wall of oiled and simpering admirers, till the last girl had run their gantlet; and last of all came the Model Boy, Willie Mufferson, taking as heedful care of his mother as if she were cut glass.
She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belle of the Piccaninnies, coquettish, cold and amorous by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward thing to wife, but she staves off the altar with a hatchet.
It is even named La Belle, which translates as 'the beauty'.
() Belle: It isn't about beauty; it is about what's within.
