Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn! BURNS, Tam O'Shanter, st. II Bastion. A looming bastion fringed with fire. TENNYSON, In Memoriam, xv, st. 5 Battle.- Battle's magnificently-stern array! BYRON, While the battle rages loud and long CAMPBELL, Ye Mariners of England Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth LOWELL, Biglow Papers, II, x, st. 17 And hark! like the roar of the billows on the shore, For God! for the cause! for the Church! for the Laws! On the perilous edge Of battle.-MILTON, Paradise Lost, I, lines 276, 277 Battles. Soothed with the sound the king grew vain; And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the Be. To be, or not to be: that is the question: And by opposing end them?-SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 1 Beak.—"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" Bear. To bear, to nurse, to rear, To see my bright ones disappear, POE, The Raven, st. 17 JEAN INGELOw, Songs of Seven: Seven Times Six, st. 1 She will sing the savageness out of a bear. SHAKESPEARE, Othello, iv, I Beast. The beast With many heads. SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus, iv, 1 A beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer.-SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 2 Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. TENNYSON, In Memoriam, cxviii, st. 7 Beaten. Some have been beaten till they know BUTLER, Hudibras, II, i, lines 221-224 Beautiful. With other articles of ladies fair, BYRON, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 143 Make no deep scrutiny Death has left on her Only the beautiful. HOOD, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 5 Beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! Beauty. YOUNG, Night Thoughts, III, lines 81-83 My love in her attire doth show her wit, For every season she hath dressings fit, No beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on: When all her robes are gone. ANONYMOUS, Madrigal: My Love in Her Attire Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit.1 DRYDEN, Cymon and Iphigenia, lines 1-3 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. KEATS, Endymion, i, line 1 1Oh, the days are gone when beauty bright When my dream of life from morn to night T. MOORE, Love's Young Dream Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It, i, 3 The goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness. SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, i, 5 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white If you will lead these graces to the grave SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, i, 5 Bed. Oh, bed! oh, bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. HOOD, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Dream Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, To work my mind, when body's work's expired. SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet xxvii Of all the foes that man should dread For I've been born and I've been wed All of man's peril comes of bed. C. H. WEBB, Dum Vivimus Vigilamus, st. 1, 2 Bedclothes. He took lodgings for rain or shine HOLMES, Parson Turell's Legacy, st. 1 Bedfellows. Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows.1 SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest, ii, 2 Bee. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest, v, 1 (Ariel's Song) In they go, Beggar and banker, porter and gentleman, The cinder wench and the white-handed lady, Into one pit: oh, rare, rare bedfellows! WILSON Ecclesiastes, vi, 6 Beef. When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food, And oh, the old English roast beef! FIELDING, The Roast Beef of Old England, st. 1 What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3 Beer.- Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? SHAKESPEARE, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 2 Taps, that in our day were famous, Have given place to lager bier. STEDMAN, The Ballad of Lager Bier, st. 1 Beetle. If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. SHAKESPEARE, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 Beggar. SHAKESPEARE, King John, ii, 1 [2] Beggars. Beggars mounted run their horse to death. SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 4 Bell. The sound of the church-going bell. COWPER, Alexander Selkirk, st. 4 His death, which happened in his berth, They went and told the sexton, and HOOD, Faithless Sally Brown, st. 17 If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound on into the drowsy ear of night. SHAKESPEARE, King John, iii, 3 Bell, book and candle.1 Ibid. 1The Cardinal rose with a dignified look, He called for his candle, his bell, and his book. R. H. BARHAM, Ingoldsby Legends, The Jackdaw of Rheims Go fetch me a book!-go fetch me a bell As big as a dustman's! and a candle as well! I'll send him where good manners won't let me tell! R. H. BARHAM, Ingoldsby Legends, The Ingoldsby Penance It is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun How the belfries rock and reel! WHITTIER, Laus Deo, st. I Bells. Oh, the merry Christ-Church bells! ANONYMOUS, The Merry Bells of Oxford Those evening bells! those evening bells! T. MOORE, Those Evening Bells, st. 1 Hear the sledges with the bells What a world of merriment their melody foretells! In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight.2— Poɛ, The Bells, st. 1 If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It, ii, 7 The time draws near the birth of Christ: Is pealing, folded in the mist. A single peal of bells below, That wakens at this hour of rest TENNYSON, In Memoriam, civ Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky. Of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery. 2Jingle, jingle, clear the way, "T is the merry, merry sleigh! As it swiftly scuds along, Hear the burst of happy song, See the gleam of glances bright, |