My vague thoughts visualized ants and worms, and especially I anticipated unearthing myriads of the unpleasant "mucuims" or betes rouges, whose hosts had done all in their power to make life in the jungle unhappy.
Thus is one insulated from betes rouges and enthusiastic ants whose sole motto is eternal preparedness.
In referring to her experience she never either moralised or generalised; but her scorn of "ces betes a couronne," was habitually expressed with just such a cool epigrammatic bluntness as that of Madame de Coeslin.
They keep their feet off the table at Papaud's--there are fewer of those betes des Anglais.
But he is too much afraid of soiling his hands, that monsieur; his betes humaines are always conventionalized, and generally come out at the end wearing the halo of the redeemed.
Young England," however, was an aristocratic movement, and its leaders were almost as great betes noires to Punch as Dr.
He gave forth a particularly unpleasant sound from his throat, "You betes Anglish, you send my wessel to bottom last cruise, and sixty of my braves-garcons wid her.
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