Fanny Dorville and her friend the duenna tried in vain to reach the compartment wherein Henri had his place, already in marching order; the presence of the Duc and the Duchesse de Montgeron prevented the two women from approaching him.
Duenna and the King's Son, The Linguist-Dame, the, vi.
King's Son, The Linguist-Dame, theDuenna and the, vi.
The Linguist-Dame, the Duennaand the King's Son 4.
The Castrato did his lord's bidding; and carrying the charger to the Princess's apartment handed it to the duenna and delivered the message, whereupon she blessed and prayed for the Commander of the Faithful and the slave departed.
The ladies were richly but not showily dressed, and the duenna went up to the one who was hemming a kerchief, and said a few words in a low tone.
These reflections were interrupted by the duennasuddenly introducing him into a room where three ladies sat working, and a pretty little girl tuning a lute.
This same duenna took Gerard, and marched before him in solemn silence.
Of course, if I had come alone I should have had to find a chaperon for such occasions, but it would be some quaint old duenna I could hire.
You look as if you had always walked with a duenna at your heels.
Roxane, De Guiche, the duennastanding a little way off.
At the rising of the curtain the duenna is seated on the bench.
The duenna closes the rear, bewildered, having made a hasty toilet): Heavens!
Nevertheless, the advocate had placed her under the guardianship and pursuing eye of an old servant, a duenna as ugly as a pot without a handle, who had brought up the Sieur Avenelles, and was very fond of him.
The husband took the duenna by the arm, and went softly at the stairs searching for the door of the chamber in which were the lovers, and did not fail to find it.
Silence," hissed the girl, and the old duenna in evident fear of her imperious young mistress, trembled the more.
The prim, black-robed duennahad gained courage from her mistress's temerity.
He stood helpless, while the duenna alternately glared at him and patted her young charge on the back, muttering soft words of comfort to her meanwhile.
They were Don Fernandez' daughter, Rafaela, and her duenna or chaperone, Donna Ana.
And if you betray me--" Again she made a threatening gesture, and again the old duenna cowered.
Evidently, the duenna stood in considerable awe of her temperamental young mistress.
Yet I needed no second glance to feel assured that theduenna had not so portly a figure as that of Senora Vallois.
The duenna I had so feared was none other than the wife of my friend Malgares, Dona Dolores.
Such complaisance on the part of her duennaastonished me.
The duenna for her own sake is not likely to say a word about any passages she may have observed between us at Madrid, and she is unaware that there have been any communications with her since.
Here, my poor fellow, get aid for your comrade," and taking out her purse she handed a dollar to Geoffrey, and then joining the duenna proceeded on her way.
She is never suffered to be for a moment alone with a man; out of doors or in she has always a duenna by her side; and as to a private chat, the thing is simply impossible.
We know not that their tale is true," the duenna replied sharply.
You may be quite sure that she never goes outside the garden without having her duenna with her.
Then how did you manage with the duenna so as to be able to speak to her in the gardens'!
It is not likely that the duenna ever happened to notice me.
The difficulty was to procure a chaperon for her, some kind of suitable and reliable duenna whom I could leave with her in a separate establishment; thisduenna has been found.
But he had the conviction that a duenna of some sort, though it might not be Raquel, would be improvised from that balcony before long, and sent after them.
I suppose the duenna did her duty and sat out the revel in the distant security of the dining-room.
Several of her charges added a number of points to our store of information the next day, at the noon breakfast hour, when the duenna was not present.
Another case of "conveyance" by Rossini has also been pointed out; the air of the duenna in the third act beginning "Il vecchiotto cerca moglie" is said to be that of a song which Rossini heard a Russian lady sing in Rome.
The old duenna has been casting amatory glances in Figaro's direction, and has a hold on him in the shape of a written obligation to marry her in default of repayment of a sum of money borrowed in a time of need.
In spite of the cold and snow, Isabelle and Serafina sprang to the ground to meet them, but the duenna did not leave her seat--with age had come apathy, and selfishness had never been wanting.
We have given the Duenna a respite this Christmas, but nothing else at present brings money.
The Duenna is one of the very few operas in our language, which combine the merits of legitimate comedy with the attractions of poetry and song;--that divorce between sense and sound, to which Dr.
In allusion to the increased fatigue which this competition with The Duenna brought upon Garrick, who was then entering on his sixtieth year, it was said, by an actor of the day, that "the old woman would be the death of the old man.
It seems I must look elsewhere for the brains of this party, and to find a solution of this young man's mystery; and, if I judge correctly, it is with this beautiful young agitator of revolutions and her oratorical duenna I must deal.
Is it not true that in your country any married woman shall duenna the young senorita?
He will truly have that you will come of the corridor, and not the garden, for me, and that I shall have no duenna but the Dona Barbara.
Is it not, then, that there is no duenna in your country?
Mauprat returned to his study, and I had sat down again, hoping that my cousin was going to send away her duenna and talk to me.
But they exchanged a few words in a whisper; the duenna remained, and two mortal hours passed without my daring to stir from my chair.
Still--" Consequently, when Juanita and her old duenna stepped out of the coach and entered the opposite house, there were no spectators of the scene.
Guided by the boy, who rode before him, he reached the convent in the afternoon of a beautiful April day, and was at once admitted to the presence of Juanita, with whom he found the old duenna he had seen in Saragossa.
Besides, these appendages of rank have lost their real meaning, and the duennamay be converted into the convenient cloak or abettor of an intrigue, the more safe as she is the supposed protectress of the husband's honor.
Why, I mean your talking to that girl and her duenna on an open platform.
The duenna looked fixedly and attentively at the two young men.
It was then I noticed the genuine Spanish duenna who looked after her, a hyena upon whom some jealous man has put a dress, a she-devil well paid, no doubt, to guard this delicious creature.
Then she turned her head and smiled with passion, but the duennaled her away very quickly to the gate of the Rue de Castiglione.
If Laurent was the equal of Figaro, the duenna seemed incorruptible.
Within a few days Matilda completely won Madame de Plessen's heart, and the duenna determined at all hazard to protect her charge against the perils and temptations of the corrupt court whither she was bound.
But if the idea crossed her mind, Struensee would not permit it, for he well knew that the presence of this strict duenna would be fatal to his plans.
Cups of black coffee and a plate of fruit stood on a table in front of the men, and the senorita Blanca Sarmiento sat in a low chair opposite, with her duenna a few yards away.
She slept well, and, wakening rather late the next morning, found that Dona Luisa and her duenna had left an hour before.
His daughter, the pretty girl we saw at the International, was with him most of the time, and afterward her duenna treated me very well.
He did not see any sign exchanged, but he thought with some amusement that he and his companion had passed a test when the duenna said to them: "Don Martin would speak with you.
He was much vexed with the alcalde's wife, but the senorita Romanez and her duenna would take her place, and he expected to put Evelyn in her father's care in two more days.
As the curtain rises, the Duennais seated on the bench.
Standing near the Duenna is Ragueneau, wearing a sort of livery.
Murmurs of admiration as Roxane appears in her box, where she takes a seat in front, while her duenna sits behind her.
It was only when the heavy oaken door had fallen to behind her duenna that Gilda with an imperious little gesture called Diogenes before her.
But anon a lady will come accompanied by a duenna and preceded by two serving men carrying lanthorns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duenna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
