Belye

They are flawless, with flecked stems and stout caps, and there is nothing to find fault with except for one thing—they are not belye. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

My mother and I meander around the forest looking under every tree, turning up every brown leaf, while Marina walks straight past us to some dinky-looking ditch, where she digs up a perfect family of belye. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

To find eight belye on one mushroom-hunting trip is almost impossible. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

I parade my family of perfect belye—the eight trench warriors—in front of her face, and she squeezes out a smile because there is no one in the entire world, not even my older sister, who could ignore their splendor. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

My small victory tickles my nose, hones my senses, makes it possible to smell my own way to the hidden treasures of belye. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

NOBODY BUT ME CAN find the belye, says my sister as she and my mother examine different-size baskets piled by the entrance to our dacha. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

All the gray and red caps we found today, and the biggest of my belye mushrooms, all melt into a steaming mouthful balanced on my fork. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

Besides, in my basket I have a perfect row of belye. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

That melting eye, that blushing cheek, that enchanting voluptuous melancholy which at times overspreads your features, all these marks belye your words. ❋ Unknown (2004)

To him we can not exhibit ouermuch praise, nor belye him any wayes, vnlesse it be in abasing his excellencie by scarsitie of praise, or by misconceauing his diuine nature, weening to praise him, if we impute to him such vaine delights and peeuish affections, as commonly the frailest men are reproued for. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)

I know and the Lord he knows (as will shortly appear) they belye me, and so I question not but they do others; the Lord alone, who is the searcher of all hearts, knows that as I shall answer it at the ❋ Unknown (1693)