There seemed always to be a pair of voluminous elderly matrons in attendance upon her, to daunt and chill him.
And she would shake her averted head hurriedly, and afterwards the iron-clad matrons would close in on her and make her inaccessible.
And from out the group of dowdy country matrons and starchy-looking devotes a brilliant figure now detached itself and glided forward with consummate grace.
The early catalogues contain the names of fair daughters who afterward became the accomplished matrons of historic families.
In that list of young ladies will be recognized a few honored matrons in the Southwest yet living, and many others will recall their grandmothers who have long been among the redeemed in heaven.
Kapus Irma went out after supper to hold a final consultation with the more influential matrons of Marosfalva over the arrangements for to-morrow's feast.
It appeared that I had scarcely got out of sight on my trip back with the oxen before one of those royal pioneer matrons had come to the camp.
The youths all agree, that, could old age inspire The passion of love, hers would kindle the fire, And the matrons with pleasure confess that they see Ridiculous nothing or hideous in thee.
The full charg'd leaf which next ensues, Presents in bright array The smaller sort, which matrons use, Not quite so blind as they.
And Putnam, who had observed her cheerful countenance, and attention to her domestic affairs, saw that she was of the proper material for the matrons of the infant nation.
No honors are too high to be accorded to matrons who, like her, have formed the characters which shed lustre on the nation.
Neither would I bring such pain on thy poor mother, she who singly of many matrons hath dared to follow her boy to the end, and slights great Acestes' city.
They linger not in counsel, nor does Acestes decline his bidden duty: they enrol the matrons in their town, and plant a people there, souls that will have none of glory.
When the matrons saw all the train approach their dwellings they kindle the town with loud wailing.
A motley ring of boys and matrons girdle the walls.
Here he had embossed the dancing Salii and the naked Luperci, the crests wreathed in wool, and the sacred shields that fell from heaven; in cushioned cars the virtuous matrons led on their rites through the city.
Choose out the old men stricken in years, and the matrons sick of the sea, and all that is weak and fearful of peril in thy company.
Thick, overhanging trees on either side now dimmed the light again, and the two plump matrons once more glared past the opposite shoulders, profoundly unaware of each other.
Shall our matrons be the only ones who may not feel the improvement that has followed a successful war?
When Valerius died he was mourned by the matrons for ten months.
The consul just now used invidious terms, calling this a female 'secession' as though our matrons were about to seize the Sacred Mount or the Aventine, as the plebeians did of yore; but their feeble nature is incapable of such a thing.
Valerius returned to Rome in triumph, and the matrons mourned Brutus as the avenger of Lucretia, an entire year.
Among the Basutos, when girls at puberty are bathed as usual by the matrons in a river, they are hidden separately in the turns and bends of the stream, and told to cover their heads, as they will be visited by a large serpent.
On the seventh day the aged matrons gather together, go with the girl to a stream, and throw her into the water.
But if it happens that when a girl comes to maturity she is not yet betrothed to any man, and therefore has no husband to go to, the matrons tell her that she must go to a lover instead.
The matrons at Bethlehem knew this well, and had told her to her face that she was only feigning; whereupon she ceased to feign.
Not handsome or even good looking, but decidedly “interesting,” the matronssaid when questioned before the Select Committee.
For this, and other omissions, the visitor assembled the matrons in a body, and lectured them in plain terms.
Whereupon she ran as fast as she could, back to her ward, and endeavoured to prevent the matrons from entering her cell.
Lydia meanwhile had decorously delivered her message of good wishes and had drifted to a chair against the wall, where matrons greeted her eagerly and where, in her own way, she began to enjoy herself.
Martie had been eagerly awaiting that luncheon, when a dozen of the prominent young matrons of Monroe should learn of her engagement.
For at least a decade he had been invaluable to Lichfield matrons alike against the entertainment of an "out-of-town girl," the management of a cotillion and the prevention of unpleasant pauses among incongruous dinner companies.
Shattered and emaciated veterans, noble-browed matrons and pale, delicate maidens gathered around that sacred bier, in the awed hush of a common sorrow, too deep for words.
Sair was the weeping" of the matrons and maidens of Richmond, when told their darlings were to go; but their sorrow did not prevent the most active demonstrations toward the comfort of the outer and inner man.
Among the fair hands which rewarded this perfunctory apostrophe to the tender passion none was more lavish in offerings than those matrons and maids in the vicinity of the king.
Girls, even at what matrons call the silly age, can not give scope to their silliness without opportunities; and there were no visitors to the house, and certainly none of the men in the yard, who could conceivably be carrying on with her.
First came poore Matronsstuck with Lice like Cloves, Devoutly come to worship their white loaves, And may be smelt above a German mile.
All this rendered him so unpopular, that, on appearing in the streets of Edinburgh in 1637, when great excitement existed on account of the Service-Book, he was attacked by the matrons of the city.
Blair drew it up; upon which she convened a considerable number of the religious matrons of Edinburgh, and ranged them in a line from the Council-house door to the street.
God has given us to sing this day the downfall of New France, the North American Babylon, New England's rival," cries Eli Forbes to his congregation of sober farmers and staid matrons at the rustic village of Brookfield.
For me she left the Trojan soil and would not stay behind with the other matrons at the city of Acestes.
Nor can I be the cause of such grief to thy mother, who has chosen to be here in the camp with thee rather than stay and live in peace with the other matrons in Acestes' city.
Then forth she went, 360 The Trojan matrons all following her steps.
The Trojans being closely pursued, Hector by the advice of Helenus enters Troy, and recommends it to Hecuba to go in solemn procession to the temple of Minerva; she with the matrons goes accordingly.
The palace echoed to his daughters' cries, And to the cries of matrons calling fresh Into remembrance many a valiant chief Now stretch'd in dust, by Argive hands destroy'd.
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