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Example sentences for "elderly lady"

  • This included two distinguished foreigners who were staying at the Leith Inn, an Englishman and an Austrian, and an elderly lady of very considerable social importance who was on a visit to Mrs. Pomfret.

  • Out of a group of people at the farther end of this porch arose an elderly lady, who came forward and clasped Susan in her arms.

  • In the great chair sat an elderly lady leaning on an ebony stick.

  • The next afternoon at three o'clock an elderly lady arrived by the London train at Tormouth, and she, too, came to put up at the Swan.

  • A young lady should show the same deference to an elderly lady that a gentleman does to a lady.

  • When supper is announced, the host leads the way with the lady to whom he wishes to show especial attention, who may be an elderly lady, or a stranger or a bride.

  • A young lady, however, is not accorded the same privilege of forming acquaintances as is a married or elderly lady, and should be careful about doing so.

  • From birds he was going on to beasts, when he was nearly struck dumb by the forbidding severity with which an elderly lady, who sat opposite to him, fixed her eyes upon him.

  • I now felt that an elderly lady was no bad ingredient in the business I had on hand.

  • I examined the document long: the writing was old-fashioned and rather uncertain, like that of an elderly lady.

  • To be sure the time has gone by when the presence of an elderly lady is indispensable to every gathering of young people.

  • In fact, unless the guest of honor is one really, meaning a stranger or an elderly lady of distinction, there is no actual precedence in being the one first to go.

  • If Mrs. King is an elderly lady, and Mrs. Jones a young one, Mrs. King merely extends her hand and does not rise.

  • I came by the knowledge on a railroad journey, where my fellow-passengers talked over the event, and I subsequently travelled with Sir Samuel's daughter, who came abroad to fill the station of a companion to an elderly lady.

  • Wanted, a young person to act as companion to an elderly lady.

  • Tod, you will have to go down, Aunt Dolly is going to put on her hat and present herself at the printer's in the character of a young person in search of an elderly lady.

  • Out on the floor the couple that is waltzing jostles an elderly lady) LADY IN BLACK.

  • From a hale, handsome, stately, upright, elderly lady, she had become a feeble old woman in the past week.

  • To this stout, elderly lady, as Lady Helena Powyss, his aunt, Sir Victor presents Miss Darrell.

  • The bald gentlemen shakes hands with her, and welcomes her in a husky baritone; the faded, elderly lady, and stylish young lady kiss her, and say some very pleasant and gracious words.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    because that; comparative philology; could scarce; difficulty about; during his; each head; easy task; elderly gentleman; elderly lady; elderly woman; get back; give alms; going away; griddle cakes; half millions; higher learning; likened unto; military governor; soon appeared; succinic acid; then only; this practice; until recent; who seems