To stoop to the yoke of a governess, here in the city, where I've lived as a great lady, seemed terrible too.
A little country girl cannot change herself into a great lady in the twinkling of an eye, even if she has five hundred thalers to use for the purpose.
His manner was the manner he would have used had a great ladycome in, and Austin thought that after all Betty owed Jacinta much.
At Las Palmas Mrs. Austin was a great lady, and Kit had gratefully owned his debt to her.
Captain Farquhar's friends were numerous but rather mixed; his feasts were not marked by the strict observance of conventional rules, and at Las Palmas Jacinta Austin was something of a great lady.
In a way she was a great lady, an acknowledged leader of fashionable people, but she, so to speak, put off her dignity.
In order to please him and pose in his eyes as a great lady, she urged her husband to the constant pursuit of honors, and finally achieved the title of countess.
The sight of the disorderly life of a "great lady" of the times decided Madame Nourrisson's profession.
Great Lady, hear the story of this man's fall, for it is the story of man.
I knew his mother as one knows a great lady who is kind to all the village folk.
She repeated in a soft undertone; "Great Lady, be pitiful to the blind eyes and give them light.
He knew at once by her dress and face, and the dignity, disclosed even by the manner in which she sat, that she was a great lady, one of those great ladies of old Virginia who were great ladies in fact.
There was no indication that anyone else was in the building, but it did not seem likely that a great lady of Virginia would be left alone in her house, with a Union force marching by.
Yet the labour itself had become delightful, and was amply rewarded by the satisfaction betrayed in the eyes of my numerous attendants; but who, however, as I was a great lady and a rich lady, durst not openly rejoice in my amendment.
Only I am glad to hear that there is nothing between them, since your mistress ought to marry high, and be a great lady, not a mere merchant's wife.
Betty, I will be frank, there is a great lady who is jealous, and watches you very closely.
I am neither an abbess nor a great lady, nor a dragonfly nor a windhover.
And it was in my heart to make you a great lady, with a ship to carry us, and ‘spears’ in our pay.
The Princess had given him the words of a great lady; but in the King’s chamber the real King sat sullenly in his chair, frowning and biting his thumbnail.
A great lady of the land, having gone to hunt, had the misfortune to be captured and carried away by a bear destitute of feeling.
We have with us the Princess Metternich, who is very vivacious, after the German fashion--that is to say, she has created for herself a kind of originality composed of two parts of rapid woman and one of great lady.
What a ridiculous creature was a great lady of that period, and how clear as day does it appear from this story that nothing but strangling could have had any effect on a beast like Peter III!
For it seemed impossible that a poor lad, and one alien by his birth from the hearts of ordinary folk, should yet have the power to make a great lady suffer.
For a great lady I knew Ysolinde to be even then, when her father seemed to be no more in the city of Thorn than Master Gerard, the fount and treasure-house of law and composer-general of quarrels.
You will even see the little beggar-woman, La Murgui, leave a death-mark with that fearful stone on the forehead of a great lady, the too beautiful dame of Lancinena.
She made her decision, like a great lady, who was still agreeable and quite sure of being taken at her word, who would go so far as even to talk of the freedom she enjoyed!
She would shrink from copying the great lady up there who, in the face of her husband, has her court of lovers and her page.
The insolence of a great lady, the dangerously primitive instincts of a great courtesan, filled her with an enormous pride, a reckless self-confidence.
She was a great lady, who knew the world and the worth of it.
I was bound to be a great lady now, and patronize and regulate and drill all the doings of nature.
But come to be great lady--why, they take another tune.
It is natural that you should wish, my dear, to go and be a great lady, and marry a nobleman of your own rank, and have a lot of little noblemen.
Antinous: Alas, great Lady, Why will you flatter thus a desperate Man That is quite cast away?
You would not recognize her now, since she has nursed her five children, she is so thin and changed, though she eats fine white bread and leads the life of a great lady.
When she dressed herself on Sunday in her ribbon head-dress, her jacket of gray-blue cloth, and yellow Wolhynian boots with high heels, she might have been taken for a great lady in disguise.
These large claims apart, she was certainly a great lady in every sense of the word, delicate, luxurious, following all the fashions of the time.
She was a great lady, though she had put her natural splendour away from her, and it was with all the pomp of a patrician funeral that she was carried to her rest.
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