Chapter Beefington to Belfield of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Beleses, a chaldean sooth sayer and Assyrian satrap, who told Arbaces governor of Media that he would one day sit on the throne of Nineveh and Assyria. His prophecy came true, and Belesês was rewarded with the government of Babylon.—Byron: Sardanapalus (1819).

Belfaborac, the palace of the emperor of Lilliput, in the middle of Mildendo, the metropolis of the empire.—Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (“Voyage to Lilliput,” 1726).

Belfield (Andrew), the elder of two brothers, who married Violetta (an English lady born in Lisbon), and deserted her. He then promised marriage to Lucy Waters, the daughter of one of his tenants, but had no intention of making her his wife. At the same time,he engaged himself to Sophia, the daughter of sir Benjamin Dove. The day of the wedding arrived, and it was then discovered that he was married already, and that Violetta his wife was actually present.

Robert Belfield, the younger of the two brothers, in love with Sophia Dove. He went to sea in a privateer under captain Ironside, his uncle, and changed his name to Lewson. The vessel was wrecked on the Cornwall coast, and he renewed his acquaintance with Sophia, but heard that she was engaged in marriage to his brother. As, however, it was proved that his brother was already married, the young lady willingly abandoned the elder for the younger brother.—R. Cumberland: The Brothers (1769).