Nearly extinct language of Nigeria spoken by a small minority of the inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum, Taraba State.
1Nothing can be more disagreeable to the scientist than a bete noir.
2He must be the bete de souffrance for all the rest.
3Brott is of course the bete noire of our friends here.
4To Madame Morlot, Harriette is a savage, une bete, without cultivation.
5What mattered it whether a bete like that overheard or not?
6Even Voltaire became what the French call frankly "bete," in trying it.
7And at these words my post-boy started, and released me from my bete noire.
8Is he simply bete, or is he poltron as well?
9But she makes of that bete Anglais and the ugly child, saints and gods!
10Probably the bete noir complaint is the waiting one.
11She is called La bete noir-theblack beast.
12Whistling and laughing, the French boy exclaimed: "Pas si bete!"
13A bete noire for the authorities, prosecutors have questioned him on numerous occasions but never pressed charges.
14I am very bete, and that is excuse enough for thee if thou couldst not love me.
15Kings may go unpunished, they always have a bete de souffrance, which has to bear their burdens.
16But the soft-eyed fawn of the desert soon showed herself in the guise of a petit bete sauvage.