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1 With Lamartine and other cultivators of the belles - lettres she was likewise acquainted.
2 The latter was also tutor in rhetoric and professor of belles - lettres and oratory.
3 The term belles - lettres does not fully express it, for it is too narrow.
4 You would enjoy a course of belles - lettres , and should take that.
5 Again, there are documents which belong to the domain of belles - lettres pure and simple.
6 His library would have satisfied the ambition of a student of history or belles - lettres .
7 For the fine arts, and especially for the belles - lettres , he entertained a profound contempt.
8 He never attempted the learned languages, nor manifested any inclination for rhetoric or belles - lettres .
9 There are more kinds of literature than classical belles - lettres , and perhaps more important kinds.
10 They had, besides, an academy of belles - lettres , where genius was cultivated, refined, and encouraged.
11 We must acknowledge our poverty with humility; belles - lettres have never achieved success upon our soil.
12 I can't write anything but belles - lettres , you possess the pen of a journalist as well.
13 You are reading belles - lettres now, so read Veresaev's stories.
14 You are in belles - lettres and you would have been struck by the splendor of that scene.
15 Several other sailors were diligent readers, though their studies did not lie in the way of belles - lettres .
16 When I am oppressed by the boredom of belles - lettres I am glad to turn to something else.
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