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Bates

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Bates  (bts), Katharine Lee 1859-1929.
American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911.
Bates [beɪts]
n
1. (Biographies / Bates, Alan (Arthur) (1934 M, British, THEATRE: actor) Sir Alan (Arthur). born 1934, British film and stage actor. His films include A Kind of Loving (1962), Women in Love (1969), The Go-Between (1971), and The Cherry Orchard (1999)
2. (Biographies / Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest). (1905-1974) M, English, WRITING: short-story writer, WRITING: novelist, ) H(erbert) E(rnest). 1905-74, English writer of short stories and novels, which include The Darling Buds of May (1958), A Moment in Time (1964), and The Triple Echo (1970)


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Charles Bates laughed uproariously; very much to the amazement of Oliver, who saw nothing to laugh at, in anything that had passed.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
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Bates had been sent for at that time of the evening.
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