Sentence example with the word 'gentlewomen'

gentlewomen

Last update: October 12, 2015

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She endeavoured unsuccessfully to eke out her irregularly paid allowance by those expedients to which reduced gentlewomen are driven - fancywork and painting fans and snuff-boxes; she lived in a garret and was often unable to allow herself the luxury of a fire.   [Please select]

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They come from a fine old family, and are thoroughbred gentlewomen.   [Please select]

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There are gentlewomen aboard, and she is in their care.   [Please select]

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There are gentlewomen aboard, and I have been singing to the lute, to them--and to her.   [Please select]

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Spence, as though puzzled by the word, "gentlewomen, yes."   [Please select]

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Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes.'   [Please select]

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Now Wellingsford, like every little country town in England, is drab with elderly gentlewomen.   [Please select]

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"May I humbly ask if these decayed gentlewomen are to inhabit their palatial retreat rent-free."   [Please select]

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Gentlewomen though they were, the mob pulled them out of their house, stripped them naked in the public streets, smeared them with tar and feathers, and then walked them as a spectacle through the town.   [Please select]

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What she did not know about housing problems, factory acts, female prisons, hospitals, asylums for the blind, decayed gentlewomen, sweated trades, dogs' homes and Friendly Societies could not be considered in the light of knowledge.   [Please select]

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