It was theporteress come to say that Monsignor had just arrived and would like to speak with the Prioress.
The old porteress presented the alms-box as she opened the gate of the convent; but Nisida pushed it rudely aside, and hurried down the steps as if she were escaping from a lazar-house, rather than issuing from a monastic institution.
I did but repeat the tale as the porteressere now related it to me.
That silly Sister Agnes has forgotten the strawberry jam," she said, when the porteressbrought in the tea.
The porteress took the plates away, and somehow Evelyn could not help feeling that she was giving a good deal of trouble.
It was the little porteress telling her that it was seven o'clock.
She had arrived at the same conclusion as the wisest of the philosophers and without any soul-searching, by instinct--each of the humble lay sisters, the little porteress had done this.
I am not trifled with as that stupid porteress in the Rue du Temple, with her bob-wig, says.
But when the porteress added, that it was the sister Clara whom the fiend had brought to the Dominican in his dream, a dreadful shriek filled the whole hall.
The abbess did all in her power to spread the news abroad, the housekeeper followed her example, the porteress harangued an audience beneath the gateway, and Clara candidly replied to the yet more candid questions of her companions.
The porteress having thus expressed herself, this second version of the dream was immediately circulated through the city.
At the sight of Rodolph the porteress inquired, in a surly tone: "Well, and pray what do you want?
He was too honourable a man and had too much prudence and respect for his position ever to have taken any liberty with the young porteress at the library.
As I was crossing the court where they keep the remains of ancient buildings in the town, I saw, under the lime-tree near the well and not far from the pillar of the Romano-Gallic boatmen, the youngporteress with the golden hair.
Eustace stood watching her, with his soul in his eyes; but before either had summoned courage to break the silence, the porteress came hurrying in, "Good lack!
Remain where you are, neither speak nor move until the porteress comes to you," rejoined Rodolph, who hastened to give his final instructions to Madame Pipelet, leaving the commandant a prey to the most alarming apprehensions.
Charles Robert, theporteress rang the bell; the door was opened by the commandant himself.
Podmore over the door," the porteress said, with many curtsies, pointing towards the door of the house, into which the affectionate daughter entered and mounted the dingy stair.
Madame Alexandre smiled a neat and appropriate smile of acknowledgment for her master; while the porteress took breath, a pinch of snuff, and proceeded.
The little porteress sprang along the garden walk, in doing which it pleased her to sweep the bushes in the nearest beds, so that their boughs rattled, and threw out clouds of snow.
Thus she could do excellent service as a spy, and at night she was always to be found at her post as porteress and sentinel where forbidden pleasures were pursued.
She saw her life from end to end, from the moment when the porteress would open the door to the time when she would be laid in the little cemetery at the end of the garden where the nuns go to rest.
And, though they were still five miles away or more, she saw the gate at the corner of the lane, the porteress too.
The Porteress of St. Clare, who is a worthy old Soul and a particular Friend of mine, has just assured me of their being here in a few moments.
He thanked the Porteress for her permission, retired from the Door, and seating himself upon a large stone, amused himself in tuning his Guitar while the Beggars were served.
The Porteress took him into her awn little Parlour: In the meanwhile, the Lay-Sister went to the Kitchen, and soon returned with a double portion of Soup, of better quality than what was given to the Beggars.
The Porteress now returned, and ordered him to follow her.
Accordingly, the Porteress was commissioned to convey him to the Parlour grate.
Porteress with a look of contempt and exultation: 'Not at all: When I was a young Woman, I remember seeing several of them myself.
Had Grandier bribed the porteressor ventured to climb the walls?
Just as we were finishing dinner, the porteress came and asked if I were ready to go.
I rang the bell, and the porteress looked out at me through the peephole.
As she saw him riding in upon Icon, blessing the porteress as he passed, she remembered how she had ridden round the river meadow as the Bishop.
When the porteress returned, Mary Antony was gone, having left the great doors ajar, and the key within the lock.
Or perhaps, my lord, it would better meet your ideas if I bid the porteress stand wide the great gates, so that this high-spirited Knight may ride in and carry off the nun he desires, in sight of all!
Crying to the porteress to open wide, she hastened to the steps.
Thrusting the porteress aside, she pressed forward, standing with anxious face uplifted, as the Bishop approached.
She was walking with the nuns, and looked very much surprised to see me; but they hurried her away, and then the porteress struck me.
The convent porteress was not a nun, for it was her business to attend to all the out-door affairs, and thus keep up that connection between the recluses and the world they had abandoned which was necessary and convenient.
I did not kneel, I did not kiss the image, though they told me they would let us go in the garden if I would, and the porteress says they will kill us soon.
Dame Redwood, your daughter will make a good porteress if she is as prompt in her duty as you are.
It was after one of these occasions, when she was resting from the benevolent fatigue she had just undergone, that the porteress came bustling in, with an unusual air of excitement, to inform her of the arrival of the captain and his men.
Here she produced, with a mischievous twinkle in her eye, the identical key which had caused the poor under-porteress such trouble and fright.
SYN=, name of an Asynia who in this poem figures as the porteress of Valhalla, but in the Edda she is porteress of the palace of Freya.
This lady's name was Zobeida, the porteress was Sadie, and the housekeeper was Amina.
The lady who had led him hither stood watching him with amusement, till the porteress exclaimed, "Why don't you come in, my sister?
The porteress who opened it was of such beauty that the eyes of the man were quite dazzled, and he was the more astonished as he saw clearly that she was no slave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "porteress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
