Miss Jane Cox is our chaperoneand there never was a lovelier one.
What do you s'pose your Cousin Park Garnett would say, Page, if she knew that our chaperone for the house party had gone and got herself as good as engaged the very second evening?
It would be a pretty piece of business for me to come down here as a chaperone and then be a baby," she said.
I was laughing in my boots when I realized that Mabel did not know of Miss Cox's engagement and so had not told Cousin Park of it, or that irate dame would have considered our chaperone not much of a chaperone, after all.
You needn't think about that; anybody will chaperone you.
You will laugh when I tell you that after an acquaintance of about twenty-four hours I find myself the chaperone of three girls about seventeen years old.
We've never had a chaperone in our lives but once, and she got married," tweedled the twins.
I can't help thinking what Cousin Park Garnett would say if she knew that Mr. Tucker had left us alone in Charleston with a perfectly strange lady to chaperone us.
As it had not, she expressed herself ready to chaperone anybody.
For nearly two years Isabel's been pretending to chaperone Fanny Minafer with Eugene, and all the time she's been dragging that poor fool Fanny around to chaperone her and Eugene!
Who's to bring thechaperone for these festivities?
I had tickets for us two and Miss Ardsley was to chaperone us.
Mrs. Jonas will chaperone the place as ever," replied Mr. Long.
My drowsy chaperone was awakened too suddenly, and was therefore very cross and ill-humored for some time after.
I don't think it would be fair to assume them correct," the chaperone answered.
One glance told Moya that her chaperone had made up her mind to drive Jack Kilmeny from the field.
Her smile was warm for this supple blue-eyed engaging Westerner, but the latter did not need to be told that behind her friendliness the instinct of the chaperone was alert.
Her mother went over with her to chaperone her, while there, and now we are going to meet them.
Yes, that sounds very good, if the youngsters will agree to follow our advice carefully, and behave as if a chaperone was in the car with them," added Sir James.
Her husband had died a few years previously, leaving her a small income, and when she had heard of her niece's contemplated trip to Europe she had decided to come to Paris to meet her and incidentally to chaperone her.
I really came over to chaperone Shirley more than anything else.
There were about two thousand people there to chaperone us, and a lot of them were so respectable--bald men and stringy women!
Couldn't they be supposed to chaperone each other, and Edith so nearly married, too?
The boy who had driven them and their luggage to town was the same who had taken the girls and their chaperone to the old homestead at Cherry Corners upon their arrival over a month before.
And she had flatly refused to chaperone Lesley except on inevitable or really desirable occasions.
His daughter is coming to him for a year: he has been here to-night to ask me to call on her--to chaperone her sometimes.
Charlie had asked a number of teachers to act as chaperone before he had approached Miss Towne.
The chaperone complained of a headache and went to bed soon after supper.
Oh, an astute and practisedchaperone knows pretty well who everybody is.
What are the duties of a chaperone in England, beyond sitting up against a wall all night, like an old barn-door hen?
What a very strict chaperone she must be," said Sir Philip, smiling.
Sir Philip, so astonished as to forget for an instant his determination to discover some particulars about the mysterious Miss Wyndham, and if possible obtain a glimpse of the chaperone she had alluded to.
What put it into my lady's head to go I'm sure I don't know, but it was not as chaperone to any one.
The sharp eyes of the chaperone flitted to and fro from the girl to the man.
The chaperone was the first to be hypnotised, and the dream, she said, was wonderful, when she came to again.
You will tell that chaperoneyou are going to order the girl to marry that knobby little brute with the red hair and ferrety eyes.
The chaperone will see you directly she comes--" "I shall stand in that recess.
The chaperone had a visitor that day, a man in green and yellow, with a white face and vivid eyes, who talked amazingly.
She spent the middle part of the day in the gymnasium, and took her midday meal with two other girls and their common chaperone--for it was still the custom to have a chaperone in the case of motherless girls of the more prosperous classes.
For a space he feared he had lost them, and then he came upon Elizabeth and herchaperone again in one of the streets of moving platforms that intersected the city.
Once she was asked to spend a whole year in Europe aschaperone to two or three girls, her distant cousins.
Douglas did want to go, but felt perhaps it was up to her to chaperone the youngsters in the hay wagon, so for once Dr.
Not as delicate as I am now; but of course I shall go to the ball to chaperone my girls," said the little lady plaintively.
The impoverished chaperone made a feeble protest concerning the lateness of the hour.
For instance, the ofttime tyrannized-over chaperone no longer trembled when any one spoke to her, as formerly had been her wont, and there was occasionally a decided ring of independence in her voice.
Some time after the empty waggons had gone off, Martial re-appeared on the threshold, Marie-Anne was with him, and they remained talking in full view of the grove where Blanche and her chaperone were concealed.
His mother is staying there with a friend, and as she is one of the patronesses of the dance she will chaperone you girls.
Lady Cardiff could not go, and without a correct chaperone she could not let her daughter be of the party--the thing was utterly impossible, dreadfully incorrect, and altogether unheard of.
Fortunately, however, one chaperone and two damsels could not go, so the rest might continue to rough it for a few nights.
At last the hearts of all were made glad by the appearance of Mrs Topgallant, who, without much persuasion, undertook to chaperone as many young ladies as were committed to her charge.
But Lily would be a problem until he could find a place for her to live, and someone to chaperone her.
If Stella comes, why not ask Mrs. Ross to chaperone her?
Michael agreed with his mother in thinking a chaperone was absolutely necessary for Stella's visit to Oxford, and since the threat of cigars he cordially approved of the suggestion that Mrs. Ross should come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaperone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: accompany; attend; attendant; companion
