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She was a belle, and it is only belle-metal of this particular description which is not fusible by "burning words."— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
Though there was storm without, the great child had his undying sunshine within In 1811, he married Miss Jane Penny, of Ambleside, described as the belle of that region,--a woman of rare beauty of mind and person, gentle, true, and loving.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863
The women flatterers around a belle are as much a part of the cortége as the men.— Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel
When a head had been shaped artistically the dusky maiden owner was marked as a belle, and one could become reconciled to it after a time, but when carelessness and neglect had governed in the adjustment of the boards, there probably was nothing in the form of a human being on the face of the earth that appeared so ugly It was the mortuary ground of these Indians that occupied the only level spot we could get for the block-house.— Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
Her anger dropt: the belle was overcome.— Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 06

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