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Example sentences for "dames"

Lexicographically close words:
damask; damaske; damasked; damasks; dame; damit; dammage; dammar; damme; dammed
  1. May 28--Germans sweep on beyond the Chemin des Dames and cross the Vesle at Fismes.

  2. Said he: "Ursula, thy palms are harder than be the hands of the dainty dames of the cities, but there is no churls' blood in thee meseemeth.

  3. So he rode till he came into the town when the fair morning was still young, the first mass over, and maids gathered about the fountain amidst the market-place, and two or three dames sitting under the buttercross.

  4. Both were well and plainly dressed, attended by some half a dozen dames and dons of the court.

  5. Four old dames came with the early dawn, bringing coffee and chocolate, which they exchanged for surplus rations and the privilege of washing Jack's clothes.

  6. To be sure, the Roman dames of high society were for a long time little instructed, but this was because, moreover, the men distrusted Greek culture.

  7. We have good reason for holding that already under the republic there existed at Rome a kind of woman's club, which called itself conventus matronarum and gathered together the dames of the great families.

  8. Emily praised her too, warmed with the theme; and eagerly exclaimed, "She always seems to me like one of those dames of fairy tales, upon whom some enchanter has bestowed a charm that no one can resist.

  9. Behind the court dames were a host of fluttering gallants in rich apparel, laughing and jesting with them on the probable issue of the contest they had come to witness.

  10. As soon as Sir Jocelyn recovers his surprise, he requests a favour from the lady of his love, and she cannot refuse him--for immediately all the dames in front of the gallery move aside, to let her advance.

  11. There is no difficulty in detecting the object of his regards, for her attire is simpler than that of all the glittering dames around her, and of a sadder hue.

  12. What mattered it that scarves and kerchiefs were waved to him by some of the fairest dames in the land?

  13. On entering the vestibule he finds a large party assembled, comprising some of the fairest dames of court, and several noble gallants, who intend taking no other part than that of spectators in the approaching tilting-match.

  14. She was receiving the congratulations of several dames of high rank by whom she was accompanied.

  15. Shortly after the Lycee, turn to the right into the Place Godinot, then take the Rue St. Pierre-les-Dames on the right.

  16. The Rue St. Pierre-les-Dames leads to the Rue des Murs, into which turn to the right, then to the left into the Rue du Barbatre.

  17. Well, he was paying dearly for it now; afraid to venture into the presence of a couple of swell dames not invincibly austere, lacking the touch-and-go gallantry of a mere Bulger who had probably never been anybody worth mentioning.

  18. Otherwise how could he with any grace have declined those repeated invitations of Bulger's to come along and meet a couple of swell dames that'd like to have a good time?

  19. This church formerly belonged to a convent of nuns, styled Les Dames de l'Assomption, the remains may be perceived in the Rue Neuve du Luxembourg, and are now occupied as barracks.

  20. Boulevards, is the convent of the Dames de St. Thomas de Villeneuve, with a very pretty little gothic chapel.

  21. A few steps farther, and the Temple appears before us in the Rue du Temple, now a nunnery occupied by the Dames Benedictines de l'Adoration perpetuelle du St. Sacrement.

  22. So also was the cousin-german of the marquis, and these two dames made such a clamour about the murder that the king, Louis XIV.

  23. The 'Déploration des Dames de la ville de La Fère tenues forcément par les ennemis de la religion catholique' draws a doleful picture of life in a conquered city three centuries ago.

  24. During the residence of the family at the house, however, the hangings of tapestry, the work of generations of dames of Steyning, their daughters and maids, hung upon the walls round the dais.

  25. None of the dames dismounted, and few could be prevailed upon to take any refreshment.

  26. The revel was now sufficiently boisterous; for, as the dames had departed at the same time as the monarch, all restraint was cast aside.

  27. Hush, rudesby; fair dames in disguise must be treated after other sort.

  28. Tell me, Richard, have you secular men many such dames as that abroad in the world?

  29. Beautiful palfreys or well-trained glossy mules, richly caparisoned, gracefully guided by the dames and maidens, bore their part well amid the more fiery chargers of their companions.

  30. Do our modern dames endeavor to produce the pie triumphant, pies that make us better men?

  31. Many were the cottages at which they called; many the old dames after whose rheumatisms, and many the young damsels after whose fortunes they enquired.

  32. By Lady Bloomerly's advice, the plan was entrusted in confidence to about a dozen dames equally influential.

  33. Most agreeably, as all dames do who dote upon a passion which they feel convinced will be returned, but which still waits for a response.

  34. Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle!

  35. Were there no bonny dames at home, Or no true lovers here, That he should cross the seas to win The dearest of the dear?

  36. Lots of Presidio dames and damsels were up on the heights that day in such vehicles as the post afforded.

  37. He was much honored by the king and queen, and found great favor with the fair dames about the court, who indeed are rather prone to be pleased with foreign cavaliers.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dames" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.