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I just saw this in Delhi belle's - I loved this post, and its great to know about such a wonderful couple!
Dr. Roopa's Bhuni Arabi Anjali 2007
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I tried biochem belle's suggestion of organizing my time.
Archive 2009-08-01 Amanda@Lady Scientist 2009
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I tried biochem belle's suggestion of organizing my time.
Tiny Steps and Vacation Amanda@Lady Scientist 2009
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"It was an offah we couldn't refuse," she said solemnly, and I pictured Marlon Brando as Don Corleone, holding a pistol to this Southern belle's head, urging her to swap the nickel for the portrait.
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza Block, Lawrence 1980
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My cousins and friends lavish lovely things upon me, and you will open your unsophisticated eyes when I display my silks and laces, trinkets and French hats, not to mention billet deux, photographs, and other relics of a young belle's first season.
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She was charmingly gowned in a soft, clinging creation of pale lavender and white lace, with long white suède gloves and low lavender shoes and silk stockings, an inch or so of which she flashed before his eyes, proclaiming the society belle's prerogative.
When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown
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Lizzy's pride kept her up before the old woman; she was in and out and everywhere, a pretty spot of crimson on either fair cheek, her eyes as sparkling and her step as light as any belle's in a ballroom, and her whole manner so gay and charming that Polly inwardly pronounced John
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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But even these had much to tell of the passings for nearly two centuries and a half up and down this household highway: of the masterful tread of spur-shod boots, the dancing of the belle's slim-slippered feet, the pompous double steps of bumpy baby shoes, the gouty stump of old grandsire, and the faithful shamble of the black boy at his heels.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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Better bow to the shadow of a belle's wing than rest in the bosom of a "strong-minded" woman's love.
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The General was a small, wiry man, renowned for his long black hair, glossy and well-kept as was any belle's, and which seemed even to a very late period to defy time to change it.
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