Laura loved him in her languid way, and would have endeavoured to make his home happy if she had been left to herself; but the old campaigner stood in the gap: she had became Herbert Pringle's bete noir.
That would never do, thought the clerk; his master wouldn't be pleased to find his bete noir seated there in his outer office, ready to pounce upon him when he made his appearance.
The preparations for the ball are on a gorgeous scale and my bete noire, Major Delrose, is up to the neck in, floral decorations.
Mi fader, this matiere is bete 1960 So fer, that evere whil I live I schal the betre hede yive Unto miself be many weie: Bot over this nou wolde I preie To wite what the branches are Of Avarice, and hou thei fare Als wel in love as otherwise.
Sone after the destruccioun, Whan Troie was al bete doun And slain was Priamus the king, The Gregois, whiche of al this thing Ben cause, tornen hom ayein.
You close your eyes after reading La Bete Humaine and think of Eugene Sue, a Sue of 1880.
Who, then, would Madame la Chouette have for her bete de souffrance?
Mena, who had taken a great fancy to me, volunteered for the purpose of keeping an eye on Nacho, who was my 'bete noire' and not to be trusted.
Nothing can be more disagreeable to the scientist than a bete noir.
The hydra-headed upas tree and bete noir of self-acting progress is such ignorance as that, lurking in the very shadow of magnificent educational institutions and hard words of great cast.
He is the bete noire of the whole prison, and some day or other they'll play him a slippery trick; and, pardieu!
Then suddenly interrupting himself, Pique-Vinaigre said to Germain, "I beg your pardon for calling you a bete noire.
For the time being, we are everybody's bete noire.
Regulation thereafter resolved itself into an endeavor by the anti-capitalists to trim their bete noire as much as was possible and safe, and the effort of the economic standpatters to come to the rescue of their friends.
She was plain-spoken for one of her station, and the American ambassador at Vienna was her bete noire.
The matter of Gothic vaulting, with its two weak points, the flying buttress and the false, wooden shelter-roof, is the bete noire of the Beaux Arts.
Bete the knight certainly was, and was meant to be, in order to give the necessary colour to Marion's charms.
The only consolation that lay in the situation to Jacques was that he would now have an opportunity of seeking out and finally settling his little difference with his bete noire, Leopold St. Croix.
I remember telling Charlie of a dream I had of this very man, and his bete noir, Philip Cobbe.
Augusta Mervyn should have gone and married our bete noire--our lord of gin-palaces--I do think it must be on purpose for you to melt him.
She was in the best of spirits, and at the moment was engaged in an animated discussion with my wife on the effect of Ancient Art upon her bete noir, the Cockney tourist.
This is the only means of defence possessed by this little inoffensive being, which deserves in all respects the name of "Bete a bon Dieu," which the French children give it.
He had long been Germany's bete noire, being looked upon as the incarnation of the British diplomatic policy of blocking German ambitions for a "place in the sun" wherever and whenever they manifested themselves.
For instance, Major Brett-Young's Bete Humaine might suitably have been included.
It was that betenoir of the playwright, an ensemble; K.
Fashion's motto is: Il faut souffrir pour etre belle; but the motto of art and of common-sense is: Il faut etre bete pour souffrir.
Tony the Trashman," a longtime teenagebete noire of the Arizona Racketeering unit, was arrested in Tucson on May 9.
Maxfield, who had extensive ties to telco security and many informants in the underground, was a bete noire of the Phrack crowd, and the dislike was mutual.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
