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Example sentences for "old lady"

  • Needless to say a chaperon's own conduct must be irreproachable and her knowledge of the world such as can only be gained by personal experience; but she need not be an old lady!

  • In the coach was an old lady dozing in one corner, and at the window, evidently only just awake, sat a young girl holding in both hands the ribbons of a white cap.

  • An old lady, who took charge of me up stairs, had the manners and aspect of a gentlewoman, and talked with somewhat formidable knowledge and appreciative intelligence about Shakespeare.

  • Oh, you must not be down-hearted, old lady," shouted Raynal.

  • At one o'clock the attorney took me to an old lady, who was thought a great deal of in the town.

  • I spent three weeks in the town, my time being divided between my dear Dubois and an old lady of eighty-five who interested me greatly by her knowledge of chemistry.

  • The duke, who had left me to the wits for a short time, returned and took me to the box of his mistress, who was accompanied by an old lady of respectable appearance.

  • She was an old lady in a large cap, with rather a red nose and rather an unsteady eye, but smiling all over.

  • Nor can it have been the general expression of her face, which was very sparkling and pretty for an old lady.

  • Aunt Lindsay is quite an old lady, and she's very eccentric.

  • One of them was an old lady, and I knew at once that I'd seen her before, though I couldn't remember where.

  • I have found an old lady here to replace her.

  • My old Lady will be glad of a new edition of Jeremy Taylor, beside the old one.

  • Portrait of an Old Lady, Full Face, her Hands folded 13.

  • Twenty-eight seemed a great age to the child; but he thought it wonderful that the portrait of an Old Lady at the National Gallery should have been painted when Rembrandt was but twenty-eight.

  • Portrait of an Old Lady in a Velvet Hood, her Hands folded 14.

  • You see, old lady, I never know'd a mother, and I should like to try to feel what it's like to have one.

  • He'd got the right stuff in him, Huggo had, eh, old lady?

  • Mice and Mumps, old lady, he'd be all right!

  • Crooked Jack leaned on his spade and decided that there weren't many finer looking women anywhere than Old Lady Lloyd.

  • The only days she could not see her were Sundays; and no Sundays had ever seemed so long to Old Lady Lloyd as those June Sundays did.

  • When the light went out the Old Lady pictured a slight white figure kneeling by the window in the soft starshine, and the Old Lady knelt down then and there and said her own prayers in fellowship.

  • The May Chapter Spencervale gossip always said that "Old Lady Lloyd" was rich and mean and proud.

  • On the threshold of the room stood an old lady, leaning heavily on two sticks.

  • What is there remarkable about an old lady of eighty not punting?

  • I was met by an old lady, very venerable, in a cap.

  • But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after mass; economic value; just from; mere variety; old acquaintance; old age; old boy; old chap; old enough; old fellow; old gentleman; old lady; old maid; old woman; olden times; older people; one had; permanent home; said the little doctor; south from; surrender themselves; thou good; upon conviction; votes against; will lend; you know very well