Bearess

See, farther, two every-day figures sitting faithfully together like a pair of turtle doves, or a bear and his bearess.[…]The poor horse drew Bear and his Bearess heavily along.

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They praised her spirit, and now and then, / The Nurse brought her own little “nevy” Ben, / To play with the future May’ress, / And when he got raps, and taps, and slaps, / Scratches, and pinches, snips, and snaps, / As if from a Tigress or Bearess, / They told him how Lords would court that hand, / And always gave him to understand, / While he rubb’d, poor soul, / His carroty poll, / That his hair had been pull’d by “a Hairess.”

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For whatever may have been the case with regard to the eminent artiste, there can be no doubt that his keeper, manager, or lessee, was himself an essentially vulgar fellow: by praising what he considered to be the gentility of Mr. Bruin, he was doing, in fact, what the essentially vulgar are prone to do—he was apprehensively insinuating to his companions his claim to the same quality for himself. As with bears and bearesses, so with men and women. The vulgar among them are the most sensitive to the quality of the tune.

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Ah, what tender thoughts must glow / In the budding souls of these / Snow-white virgin bearesses / With their soft and dewy eyes ?

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