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How to use BESS in a sentence

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The site also includes a fascinating discussion of Harry Houdini's pact with his wife Bess to attempt to communicate from beyond the grave.
Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod.
When Gershwin was writing the musical, he told her that he had written the part of Bess for her.
He was a teenager in the grip of a strong, young passion, and Bess was his unattainable beloved.
The Officer called his supervisor who told him to leave until they could determine whether Mr. Bess lived on trust or fee land.
The orchestral covers from Porgy and Bess are slightly less inspired, but have their moments.
I didn't want to say good bye to Bess, for I doubted that I would have such a friend at court.
The next day, Ms. Bess told the deceased that he had interfered with her while she was sleeping, which wasn't true.
Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers.
We do not know exactly what Harry said to Bess, but it must have amounted to a proposal.
For several years during her girlhood, Bess was a tomboy in a house full of brothers.
Over the years, she had come to count on him as one of the pillars in her life, just like her father, her deceased mother, and now, her darling little Bess.
The British soldiers, Brown Bess muskets primed and loaded, slid down the ropes onto the shaky boats, cramming about thirty light infantrymen to each of the tiny transports.
Bess was in the process of elaborately braiding her long golden tresses.
If you visit the livery stables you can choose between riding in a covered wagon pulled by two Clydesdales, Jock and Bess, or in a horse-drawn buggy.
Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
Bess is paid ten coppers a week, and is provided with room and board.
The highwayman has been portrayed in films and books as a flamboyant and handsome figure, forever escaping in the nick of time on his trusty steed Black Bess.
In 1926, while rehearsing for a benefit show for the school, Queen Bess fell from the cockpit five hundred feet to her death.
The oldest surviving Watt engine is Old Bess of 1777, now in the Science Museum, London.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Cousin Bess said nought, but wagged her head, and tare her flannel in twain.
I stopped when we had to sell my horse Bess, and that was before you came back to Dinwiddie.
And, thinking of a free sheet, Bess gave the little sloop a foot or two more of main-sheet.
They'll drive old Bess all over the country before they drive her to the bam.
I exclaimed, with the greatest pride, for Bess Rutherford has nothing to envy Pavlova about.
Bess looked beautifully charming in her well-fitted jacket and divided skirt of reseda green.
Old Bess was rearing and plunging with a coltish animation quite inconsistent with the dignity of her twenty-three years.
My dear, Mrs. Minch took her in her arms, Bess is better off.
Come, Josie,' said thoughtful Bess, fearing to outstay their welcome.
Edgeworth Bess, who passed for Sheppard's wife, was secured.
In front of Sandy Jim stood Chad's Bess, who had shown an unwonted quietude and fixity of attention ever since Dinah had begun to speak.
He knew that there was little hope of Queen Bess winning the race.
I'd rather see her chummy with you than Lola or Bess, either.
At the door they found the dwarfish Grasshopper with Black Bess.
Teddy would rather spend money on Bess than eat a shore dinner.
Then Bess will sidle around me thinking she can get into the Sans.
Bess had turned from waving Maureen off and started back to the cabin.
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