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  • Alex Bellus Some tenants of the AutoMotorPlex Minneapolis share nearly all activities, including Drew and Janet Richardson, who both work on restoring cars.

    Women Want In 2010

  • In 1922, Stephen Poplawski put a spinning blade at the bottom of a container to chop, grind, and puree food, according to Mary Bellus, an expert on inventions for About.com.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • As a self admitted progressive liberal, I find Bellus Americana a little disheartening; but as an adult with ADHD, I have also learned that it is better to build on strength than try to overcome weakness.

    Michael B. Laskoff: America Occupies Itself 2009

  • For instance, I think one of the important things is that Chernobyl started a whole chain of first ecological movements in countries like Ukraine and Bellus, in particular, which slowly, but surely moved into a different sphere.

    CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006 2006

  • Bellus was a diminutive of bonus (good) and was used first for women and children, then ironi - cally for men.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

  • This created such a panic that Gentius at once sent two of the foremost men in the country, Teuticus and Bellus, to the praetor to ask for a cessation of hostilities, to allow him time to consider his position.

    The History of Rome, Vol. VI 1905

  • Petrinus Bellus affirmat se, cum esset Bruxellis in curia Hispaniarum Regis de hac quaestione consultum, et censuisse, pro Praefecto facere aequitatem quae praecipue respicitur inter milites, quorum controversiae ex aequo et bono dirimendae sunt; unde ultra conventa quis obligatur ad id quod alterum alteri prasstare oportet. '

    Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • We see that here down below was the earliest seat of the house, till Roger climbed the _Bellus Mons_, to found his castle, to give it his name, and to take his name from it.

    Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

  • But our object now is that which is historically the central, physically the loftiest, point at Beaumont, the castle on the _Bellus Mons_ itself.

    Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

  • We walk from the station with the _Bellus Mons_ plainly before us in a general way, in the shape of a well-wooded range of high ground.

    Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

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