When we inquired of the manageress as to what might be of especial interest in Dundee, she considered awhile and finally suggested--the cemetery.
Evidently the manageress desired the victims to be prepared for the worst.
In many cases the example was set by the manageress and her assistants, though their attire not infrequently was the worse for long and continuous use.
We finally rebelled against this and had many a lively tilt with the manageress in our efforts to get a plain meal of eggs, tea, bread and butter and perhaps a chop.
The impression which he left with the manageress was altogether favorable; she cannot say enough in praise of the courtesy and kindness of her distinguished guest who gave her the much-prized sketches with his compliments.
Theatrical booths again appeared at Bartholomew Fair in 1782, when Mrs. Baker, manageress of the Rochester Theatre, took her company to Smithfield.
The poor manageress was in tears, deafened with the exasperated, swearing representatives of, apparently, all the tradesmen for miles around.
His manner to the manageress of the Bedford Square hotel was very different from that displayed to the German.
It appeared that he was accompanied by a Miss Coburn, whom themanageress believed to be his daughter.
Neither the manageress nor any of the staff had seen anyone resembling the tall man.
If it was mere fancy on my part that I was badly treated, and if the manageress was quite blameless, I ask her pardon.
Then all of a sudden they seem disposed to give me better food, and the manageress smiles at me.
It was the close of the university year, for which event, the manageress assured us, many people had engaged rooms a full year in advance.
Perhaps the manageressmay be able to tell you something, sir.
A quarter of an hour afterwards we arrived at the hotel, where the proprietor, attended by the manageress and the waiters, received us with rather familiar smiles.
But as he left the dining-room the manageress met him with a grave face, and asked him into her office.
But the manageresshad no thoughts to spare for the letter.
When the girl and her protégé arrived at the boarding-house of the fat manageress they found that the actor had so far kept his promise as to have inveigled her into a condition of alcoholic amiability.
Lil adhered to her terms, and was about to leave without having made an agreement, when the manageress called her back, and a contract for a three weeks' engagement was signed at once.
Each one sang and danced, and the girl, who also whistled, outlined to the manageress her idea of an "act" in which the two should appear.
Now incredible as it may seem, fate threw another prop to the falling house of Houghton, in the person of the manageress of the work-girls, Miss Pinnegar.
A manageress was advertised for, and work-girls were hired.
Her costume was workmanlike and that of an hotel manageress in the morning; yet distinctly set off her figure and suited her character of an able-bodied, intellectual woman.
She heard again the mercilessly shrewd voice of that French manageress at Les Pins.
The manageress was in the appartement that adjoined the kitchen, a domain smaller but pleasanter of aspect than any of the big rooms above, and more comfortable, except for one narrow space that was neither kitchen nor appartement.
Then came a sister of Madame Leroux, as dark, as mercilessly intelligent as the manageress herself, talking eagerly to Pierre Tronchet, effective in his blue and red.
Nobody there now, except the hotelmanageress and her husband.
Mrs. Cartwright was still thinking of the stiletto-eyed French manageress who had introduced her nephew to the occupant of the best room in the hotel.
I think I can tell you how it happened, though,' said the manageress with a vague smile.
The manageress was nowhere to be seen; nor was Nelly, probably by now a manageress herself.
Betty's been shifted, I know, and I suppose Mary and Jennie are gone, but there's the manageress and some of the girls upstairs.
Farwell looked surprised for a second, then saw the manageress on the stairs.
The manageress of a cafe lost in Marylebone had heard her kindly, but had looked at her boots plastered with mud, then at the dirty fringes of her petticoats and said, regretfully almost, that she would not do.
A virile manageress dominated them and drove with splendid efficiency a concealed kitchen team of four who sweated in the midst of steam in an underground stokehole.
The manageress glanced at her husband, with whom she had kept up a whispered conversation.
The manageress dropped into a chair and stared at her visitors.
The manageress started and looked at her visitor as if she half suspected him of possessing the power of seeing through brick walls.
But this parcel, gentlemen, was recently confided by Miss Slade to the care of the manageress of the Pompadour, to be put in the hotel safe--from which it was produced to me twenty minutes ago.
That's just what I expected ever since the manageressgave me this parcel.
Manager and manageresswatched with interested amazement while the two searchers went through everything in that room with a thoroughness and rapidity produced by long practice.
The chief motioned to Chettle, who went off with the hall-porter; he himself followed the manageress into her office.
The manageressgot up as quickly as she had sat down.
Not only did the manageress accompany them, but the manager also, who just then arrived and was filled with proper horror to hear that such things were happening.
The manageress looked at her with some impatience.
Of course it's against the rules, but what can a manageress do?
There had to be a manageress and a staff organized and neither Lady Harman nor Mr. Brumley were prepared for that sort of business.
The arrival at the theater of my written excuse brought the manageress down upon me, in a state of distraction.
But for the affair of the bracelet, which obliged me as an honorable man to give my name and address, the manageress would not have discovered me.
They had not announced their arrival beforehand, and the manageress took them upstairs to see several vacant rooms.
It occurred to her, however, that some tragedy might have taken place in that particular room, which would explain the reluctance of the manageress to let them hire it.
The little manageress did not spare herself, and on the evening of the first night, whilst the queue was already forming outside the door of the theatre, she was busy hammering in a last nail.
It included also a tall young man of twenty-four who had not previously acted in London, and who was not therefore of any interest to the public, though to his manageress he was; his name was Bancroft.
But the manageress met my suggestions about eatables with a look of blank astonishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manageress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
