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...Lasell Leaves speaks in rapturous terms of a "Spring, spring, beau - " But why she should prefer a spring beau to any other kind of a beau is not stated. But we have no doubt that a pearl-satin bow would prove just as satisfactory; or a bouquet; or even a Bo Peep spring bonnet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

...know what your beau's pretty horse's name is," said a little fellow to his sister, Saturday morning. "It's 'Damye.'" "Hush, Eddie, that's a naughty word." "Well, I don't care; that's his name, 'cos last night I heard him say, outside the fence, 'Whoa, Damye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...drawer where he keeps his treasures, and bring out some decayed peony or number eight glove, and then to fall into a rhapsody over it. "This glove, Tom, was Minnie's. I met her that summer I spent at the seaside. She was my beau-ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOVER'S FRIEND. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...blessed beau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUPID'S MINISTERS. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

Fallen, indeed, is this the beau-ideal of a virtuous and simple-minded "dig," the pride of the Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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