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