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Beattie

[ bee-tee ]

noun

  1. James, 1735–1803, Scottish poet.


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“Voters in Kansas are searching for an alternative to both parties,” says Orman pollster David Beattie.

When Bono and Thomas Beattie, the “pregnant man,” made the news, Stryker said she thought, “Oh, here we go again.”

No surprise: Beattie teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

She wouldn't let Beattie come down to the drawing-room yesterday, because she cried for a sweet!

Captain Beattie said if they had artillery they could whip us, but not without.

This piece was originally a pantomime, but here it had words written for it by Beattie.

It was a Latin proverb, but all the common people of that day quite well understood it, not to speak of a student like Beattie.

Beattie, as a beginner in the spiritual life, had made this still not uncommon mistake.

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