The King, Princess Alma and a Procuress appear on the scene.
Mrs. Schwartz' the widow, is a procuress--the most clever and fiendish procuress known to us.
To keep her place in the whirl she must turn procuress for the rich men who must be amused.
He was President of the Inquisition, and every morning he imprisoned the procuresswho had furnished him with the girl with whom he had supped and slept.
He would wake up in the morning tired out with the pleasures of the night; the girl would be driven away and the procuress imprisoned.
Such was the woman whose friend and procuress La Vicenza had become.
She received the applications of those who were in love with Madame Prote, and passed them on, while, whether a lover's suit was accepted or not, the procuress got something out of him.
The oldprocuress bowed to the ground as he went by, but he took no notice of her.
He remembered the great ham-like face of the procuress who kept this fashionable hell.
He was regarding this old French procuress with grave attention.
I had not the strength to go away without giving her anything, and the procuress was sharp enough to know it.
Inasmuch as the crow pecked at her breast with her sharp beak; an old hag of a procuress [566] will tempt the affections of thy mistress.
The procuress was later served even worse: her hose and ears were cut off.
The cook, in accordance with his master's command, went to the soldier's city, and sent a procuress to the wife with his message.
The wife did not assent directly, but told theprocuress to send the man to her, so that she might see whether he was agreeable or not.
Last of all the procuress hurried to the Parisian's.
A procuress then, who lived on the Pont des Tournelles, was visited one day by a knight, who put a ring into her hands.
The procuress went next to see the lady of Poitiers and solicit her favours for the gallant knight.
The procuress then went to see the lady from Tours, made the same offer to her as to the other, and showed her the ring.
She has very narrow ideas, and always thinks that governess and procuress mean the same thing.
This quack being family surgeon to the old procuress who stands at his right hand, formerly attended the young girl, and received his fee as having recovered his patient.
Even to the Duchess of Etampes, who was his acknowledged mistress and procuress for a period of nearly twenty years, he never behaved in public in a manner to compromise her reputation.
It as accurately describes the mode in which "articles of trade" in the procuress line are disposed of now as then.
A procurer or procuress who had been instrumental in introducing a free-born Athenian girl to the Dicterion incurred the penalty of death.
When a procuresshad rendered herself particularly obnoxious, she was seized, stripped naked, and dragged in the midst of a great crowd to the water's side.
There are records of cases in which the procuress was exposed naked to the insults of the mob for a whole day, and toward evening the hair on her body was burned off with a flaming torch.
Occasionally a notorious brothel-keeper or professional procuress was severely punished, but prostitutes were rarely molested.
The persuasive arts of theprocuress and brothel-keeper were not wanting.
Previous to the thirteenth century, every procuress endeavoring to corrupt innocent females was punished, like an adulteress, by mutilation of her nose.
Instead of returning me to my home, the procuressleft me in an isolated dwelling not far from Versailles.
The procuress indicated that they were well built, young, and pretty.
Although we do not possess titled libertines at elegant leisure here, there can be no manner of doubt that the procuress plies her vocation among us, and thrives on a liberally perennial patronage.
When the lady arrives, the introduction takes place, and the business is transacted, as far as the procuress is concerned.
Not infrequently she falls into the toils of those advertising frauds, who frequently combine the vile trade of procuress with the ostensible trade of fortune-telling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procuress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bawd; pander; pimp; procurer
