The proprietress was not in sight when they entered, but the bartenders greeted them in a more friendly way, and the Chinese, who seemed forever cleaning glasses, grinned them a welcome.
Townsend advanced toward her, certain that she must be the proprietress of the High Light.
It has a very pleasant flavour when eaten with cream: this our waiter confided to me, and, after tasting the mixture, I quite agreed with him, although the proprietress had treated the idea with scorn.
In many of the gardens poinsettias were flowering, and hanging clusters of a vivid red flower which our hotel proprietress called "Songe de Cardinal.
Remembering the snores which had proceeded from that cleft in the caravan in which the proprietressof the wax-work passed the night, Nell rather thought she must have been dreaming of lying awake.
The clerk is a matron, and the proprietress a widow in half-mourning.
He says," interrupted theproprietress in half-mourning, "that he is your husband.
Nevertheless, the real proprietress seems to derive double courage and double strength from the feeling that she is in her rights.
It had a ballroom whose walls had been decorated by a clever caricature of a wedding procession, the payment, no doubt, for some bohemian supper of long ago, when madame the proprietress was young and the good comrade of idle painters.
That was one reason why she became at thirty quite a serious proprietress of the Bar du Grillon.
I stop at Maison for dejeuner the next day, and find the proprietress of a river-side cafe washing in the public lavoir.
Le Grand Turc--but the proprietress is closing up, making ready to leave.
From the window the proprietress and her daughters watched our impromptu kitchen with interest.
George and I parted company, he to see what he could find since the best hotel was denied us, and I, undaunted, started off to try to persuade the proprietress to let us in.
The proprietress stood as though nailed to the doorway leading to the kitchen.
As the horse had to be harnessed and there is a two-mile drive down to Charley, we stopped a moment and spoke to the proprietress of the hotel.
Looking up I saw that the proprietress and her two daughters had disappeared.
Leon jumped to help the old man who was holding him, and I had just time to catch the proprietress as she swooned on the floor.
In the course of the evening the character of the house became evident, and then the proprietress offered to engage her as a servant, solemnly promising that she should not be exposed to any insult.
Alluding to the keeper of one of these places, the same officer says: "The proprietress of this house is a German woman over seventy years of age.
From this amount deduct the sum charged for their board, an additional fee which they pay the proprietress for every visitor they entertain, the expenses of hair-dressing, perfumery, etc.
You count like theproprietress of my favorite café!
Early as the hour was, various cronies were there already, sipping their morning refreshments; but he passed them with a nod and made for the fat proprietress throned behind a high desk.
He knew vaguely and by report that Madame le Blanc was the proprietress of a famous restaurant, over which she had rooms where private gambling was carried on to a great extent.
She is theproprietress of a restaurant down the street--a house open to everybody.
Yet Kane was by no means sure that he was losing his money there unfairly, or that he was used as a pigeon by theproprietress and her friends.
You ought to find a friend (female, of course) and don't forget to ask the proprietress at Dalaro to take care of the long boat until my return.
Well, and what did the proprietress say this morning?
Later on the proprietress came and read the paper to them.
He is an old sea captain who fell in love with the proprietress and married her.
People fancied that the rebuilding might prove a dangerous, if not a fatal crisis in its affairs; but the proprietress accomplished the colossal operation without even a temporary set-back.
X The books of Thompson's were made up and audited at the end of each summer season, and in accordance with an unbroken custom the proprietress immediately afterwards gave a dinner to the heads of departments.
Prentice and Archibald Bence often advised the proprietress to turn herself into a company, and she was more or less disposed to adopt their suggestion.
The proprietress gently replied that even in the learned professions there were losses as well as gains, and perhaps he would have found professional life as precarious as farming.
A lady of my acquaintance, who is a proprietress in County Galway, is in the habit of receiving her own rents.
It was on these innocents that Herrick began as usual to practise his Italian when the proprietress had gone affably to see about his order, but if he thought one of them would lightly drop Christina's address he was mistaken.
Oh, yes, the Italian proprietress cheerfully informed him, the parrot had been in the country with Maria Rosa and her great-aunt.
There was a knock at the door and the proprietress of the table d'hote entered cheerfully.
The Old Bailey, from its nearness to Smithfield was crowded, and the buxom proprietress of Fenton's coffee house was hard put to it to serve her clamorous customers and to see that she wasn't cheated or robbed.
This performance he kept up all day and I was told by the brother of the hotel proprietress that it was a daily trick of his.
On alighting I was met by the proprietress who, in answer to my inquiry after two ladies who had arrived that afternoon, at once conducted me upstairs.
After Madame the proprietresshad identified Carissimo, I had once more carefully concealed him under my coat.
He ordered a perquisition of every room and every corner of the hotel, Madame the proprietressloudly lamenting that she and her respectable house would henceforth be disgraced for ever.
He had worked the whole thing out with marvellous cleverness, being greatly assisted by Madame Sand, the proprietress of the Hôtel des Cadets, who was a friend of his mother's.
The proprietress and concierge were warned that if they interfered with the due execution of the law they would be severely dealt with; after which we went upstairs.
Aristide Nicolet persisted in his statements, as did the proprietress and the concierge of the Hôtel des Cadets in theirs.
You go in to the little room where Villagers are drinking tea, and the proprietress approaches to take your order.
The proprietress of the Ladies' Wardrobe was lolling against the door-post, refreshing herself with the soft evening breezes from the roads of Westminster and Waterloo, and talking to her neighbour.
The proprietress of the wardrobe snatched up one of the candles that guttered in a brass flat-candlestick upon the counter, and led the way up the narrow staircase.
If the proprietress gets locked up, she will always be bailed out by the saloon keeper, but if she don't buy enough stuff from him, he will refuse to do it.
There is your employer, Sarah," said the proprietressof the office.
At that moment the telephone rang, and Tom and Mary, listening, could hear the proprietress of the intelligence office talking to Mrs. Duy Puyster over the wire.
The proprietress as we entered had told us not to mind a woman who was "gone dotty" with drink.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proprietress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
