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  • Glad to heer that non tradishnul tradishuns were upheld Teh bewty ob kitteh sittin teh grumpi kitteh iz u canz gib him/herz bak!

    Crouching dragn sleepin kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Lucretia whom he never saw, but painteth the outward bewty of such a vertue.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • It was not only his manly bewty, tho that mite have made many an Apoller envy him.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various

  • LORD MARE's Show, a cummin in all its full bewty and splender from the middel of the Royal Xchange!!

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 Various

  • So I took him parst the grand room in which the Wedding Gests was assembled, and there sure enuff, he seed such a collection of smiling bewty, as ewidently made a great impression on his ---- ---- 's Art, and one speshally lovely Bridesmade gave him a look, as he passed by, as ewidently went rite thro it.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 Various

  • I was reading this aloud to Miss Matty, who smiled and sighed a little at the hope, so fondly expressed, that "little Matty might not be vain, even if she were a bewty."

    Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Sins she wears her young lady's igsploded gownds and retired caps and ribbings, there's an ellygance abowt her which is puffickly admarable; and which, haddid to her own natral bewty & sweetniss, creates in my boozum serting sensatiums ...

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • There had been always a jallowsy between them: miss jellows of her mother-in-law's bewty; madam of miss's espree: miss taunting my lady about the school at Islington, and my lady sneering at miss for her squint and her crookid back.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • An do you nat se, how nature the worker of all thynges, dothe so excell in expressynge ye fourme bewty, & coloure of thaym maruylously in other thynges, but pryncypaly in precyous stones? moreouer she hathe gyuen to ye same stones wonderouse vertu and strêkthe that is almost incredyble, but that experience dothe otherwyse testyfye.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • There had been always a jallowsy between them: miss jellows of her mother-inlaw’s bewty; madam of miss’s espree: miss taunting my lady about the school at

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

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