His face instantly assumed such portentous and awful gravity that he set her off again to such a degree that the dowagers in the other room looked at her rebukingly.
See her talking ancient history to those dowagers yonder.
This caused as desperate commotion in the town; the dowagers and old maids sat in judgment on the case, and declared Biddy no longer visitable.
Martinet dowagers and venerable beaux acted as masters and mistresses of ceremonies, and made all the preliminary arrangements.
Naturally she is the last of the dowagers visiting at the house.
He's a dear, and always was, and I always fight tooth and nail for him when the catty old dowagers call him the most dissipated man in New York.
Next week he will be playing golf and cultivating damsels and dowagers who may desire immortality in paint.
Two dowagers close to me indulged in a stage whisper that revealed to me the fact that they wondered whether the projected marriage would not be something of a mesalliance on the part of dear Sophia.
Now my way is to take real flesh and blood, yes, and dead lobsters and codfish and dowagers and paint them in the best light I can get on them, but it's the light I really see.
The brown old women in dark silks sat against the wall, as dowagers do to-day.
This Princess's Apartment is hung with black Velvet, it being the Custom of the Imperial Court, for the Empress Dowagers never to quit their Mourning.
The Empresses Dowagers are serv'd at Table with the same Ceremonies as the Empress Regent, and they commonly eat alone, with only the Archduchesses their Daughters.
Marie Zerkovitch joined in Casimir's hearty mirth, Mantis's shrill cackle and the sniggers of the dowagers swelled the chorus.
Tell me when there will be no ancestors living or dead, nor dowagers nor devils, that I may come and see you.
But two of the dowagers crossed themselves, Lady Meg started and glowered--and little Madame Zerkovitch marked, recorded, and remembered.
Two or three dowagers and Casimir de Savres--who had to unbuckle his sword and put it outside the door for reasons insufficiently explained--completed the party.
Their mothers, and aunts, and other old dowagers in the house parties used to think I meant marriage, but the girls themselves knew better.
If you turn the heads of old dowagers such as I am, what chance have all these chickens?
Several dowagers seemed scarcely to be able to breathe from heat, and the plethora of their own well-fed and pampered flesh.
The ancient dowagerssat below as so many queens enthroned, challenging scrutiny and admiration.
His Majesty did not suffer like his wife from an unconquerable horror of frisky matrons; on the contrary, his abhorrence was chiefly directed against the starchy dowagers and the prudish devotes who formed the entourage of the Queen.
The dowagerstold over all the gallant adventures of the Maufrigneuses from Louis XIII.
In her case optimism brought its reward, and she secured Courteen Grange as a dower house, where she continued for many years to be very spritely company for all the dowagers and many of the old bachelors in the neighbourhood.
Instead of velvety leopards that used to amble over tuffets of fragrant thyme, each with a hussy astride his supple back, went greasy chairmen in lurching escort of dowagers and misses.
Rich Mrs. Bendish arrived and made all the dowagers jealous with her chest of precious stones that she brought back from an island in the Caribbean Sea--buried treasure that was actually discovered.
But the lady-dowagers sometimes consider the gentility of lawyers doubtful.
None but the dowagers who have breath to get up,' replied her ladyship, panting.
There were two or three dowagers who knew Maxwell and, seek to avoid it as he might, he was soon generally introduced and his eligibility made widely known.
He lightened up the hotel piazza and flirted with every one, from dowagers down to the little girls to whom he told liver-colored stories as evening and the gloom came.
It thus happened that Paul escaped the discouragements hitherto presented to marriageable men by dowagers and young girls.
Mothers of families, dowagers who had granddaughters to establish, young girls jealous of Natalie, whose elegance and tyrannical beauty annoyed them, took pains to envenom this opinion with treacherous remarks.
He was a youth who loved gossip, and who went about among all the wives and spinsters of Plymouth, the dowagers and old ladies, disseminating tittle-tattle.
Doddleson had no rank; but he was the pet physician of fashionable dowagers suffering from chronic laziness or periodical attacks of ill-humour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dowagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
