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Example sentences for "protegee"

Lexicographically close words:
protectorship; protectour; protectress; protects; protege; proteges; proteid; proteids; protein; proteine
  1. Would it not be possible to give out that Miss Palm is a protegee of your own, recommended by some New York acquaintance, and whom you have agreed to receive?

  2. You seem to know your protegee very thoroughly, Mr. Sandow, and to take an extraordinary interest in her.

  3. Dona Clorinda was quarreling with Alicia, and the blue-stocking for whom the Professor felt such enthusiasm was the companion and protegee of the Duchess.

  4. When the huge nightingale had retired to the wings, the Colonel offered his protegee a cornucopia full of caramels.

  5. La veuve Isaac Toldano et 8 autres personnes appartiennent a la famille de Joseph Toldano, Interprete de la Legation d'Italie, famille qui jusqu'a present a joui de la protection hereditaire comme la famille Benchimol, protegee par la France.

  6. Not even when that secret concerns a protegee of mine?

  7. But because of her ill health, being a protegee of Anne Stewart for the past two years, this association had taught Eleanor to think twice before she wasted her allowance.

  8. The lady answered that she would consult her young protegee and be governed by her wishes.

  9. So prompt had been his action that the chaperon received this silent bribe before she had spoken to her protegee on the subject of fixing a day for her marriage.

  10. Your protegee is a true daughter of Eve, and she eyes Leigh's fortune as hungrily as the aforesaid venerable mother of mankind did the tempting apple.

  11. During the drive she talked on indifferent subjects, and as they went up to the dressing-room had the satisfaction of seeing that her protegee manifested no trepidation.

  12. Apropos, your little protegee has not returned.

  13. Walking up to the grate, he warmed his fingers, and then, with his hands behind him, stood still on the rug, regarding his protegee attentively.

  14. And so Chip McGuire, waif of the wilderness and erstwhile protegee of a philanthropic woman, as Vera Raymond found another home, and began still another life with this old farmer, Judson Walker, and his wife Mandy.

  15. She had defeated the Rector in his benevolent intentions, and she had taken up his protegee just at the moment when Mr Bury was most disgusted with the unfortunate woman's weakness.

  16. She is not a protegee of mine at all," returned Missy.

  17. She was a steady, sensible young woman, and was in reality a protegee of Missy's.

  18. And the nurse; is she not a sort of protegee of yours?

  19. So settling in his own mind that it was the debut of some protegee of Falkenstein's, he followed him to the door of a private box.

  20. He saw that Constance's attachment to her protegee and the latter's gratitude to her benefactress increased from day to day.

  21. Constance took Sister Anne and little Frederic to her own room, where she selected one of her simplest gowns and compelled her protegee to put it on.

  22. I am delighted," said Rodolph, "with the very favourable accounts I have received from Madame Georges respecting my poor little protegee at the farm of Bouqueval.

  23. The old princess adored her young protegee and would have answered to God himself for Sarah's virtue.

  24. But she could not go and leave her protegee unprovided for, nor could she leave her alone with a servant.

  25. She could see old ladies sitting on benches under trees, and a big lump came into her throat as she thought of her protegee and wondered if at last she had found her a permanent resting-place, if this haven was for her.

  26. So, with a happy heart, Katherine wrote immediately to her protegee a loving, tender letter, which also contained sympathetic messages from all her other friends.

  27. Clemence, clasping her hands with fervour; "I can now tell him that his protegee still lives!

  28. Not contented with providing for Germain as long as he lives, and liberally endowing his bride, you also promised to be present to bestow the hand of your young protegee on her lover.

  29. Had that lady not, indeed, already failed her protegee by indulging in the whim of this unaccountable disappearance?

  30. Lady Rockminster would have been very much surprised if any protegee of hers would not "do," and wondered at Lady Fogey's impudence in judging upon the point at all.

  31. I have no other friend of whom I could ask a similar favour, and if I find I am presuming too much on you, I believe I must try to fall in love and get married, so that I can take my protegee to a home of my own.

  32. Will you not find a young female protegee rather an embarrassing appendage to a bachelor's establishment?

  33. When are you going to put my protegee into the operating-room?

  34. The superintendent said I was young, but that any protegee of Dr.

  35. I will take you again to your own little room in the Infants' Asylum," murmured the lady, as she turned with her protegee into the rectangular passage leading to the asylums.

  36. The abbess led her protegee down a long passage and deep flights of stairs to the refectory, where, at each side of a very long table, running down the length of the room, stood about fifty nuns waiting for their mother-superior.

  37. Although Angelina was the especial protegee of Julia, rather than of Brenda, she took the greatest interest in the wedding.

  38. Anstiss had her own protegee at the Mansion--a girl who had been in her Sunday-school class.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protegee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.