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Example sentences for "sensible woman"

  • After that he even put the matter to his wife "Martha, you're a sensible woman, I'd like to ask you about a case.

  • For she's a sensible woman, Daniel, and, at bottom, kind.

  • And Martha could teach her so many things--she's such a sensible woman.

  • And the worst of it is she does not discuss my state of health as a sensible woman should, but just pets me and tells me it "will all come right in the end.

  • And I'm not a hair-brained young lady, fresh from school, but a sensible woman of thirty-five.

  • Now be a sensible woman, and 'frame,' as your neighbours say.

  • Robina, speaking for herself, held that a period of quiet usefulness, away from the society of other silly girls and sillier boys, would result in her becoming a sensible woman.

  • I have hopes of making Robina a sensible woman.

  • I told her I had hopes of Robina's developing into a sensible woman.

  • Apart from the sympathy which her misfortune had evoked, he probably could have felt much the same toward any other good, sensible woman, had she rendered him a similar service.

  • Now you go in the parlor and listen like a sensible woman.

  • Incapable of nice analysis or fine definitions, he only thought, "How much pleasanter it is to see at the table a quiet, sensible woman instead of a 'peculiar female!

  • The rascal was much perturbed at the result of his officiousness, and asked Therese to plead for him; but, like a sensible woman, she told him that his master was the best judge of the value of his services.

  • This foolish tale completed my mastery over this truly learned and sensible woman on everything but her hobby.

  • She was a sensible woman, and heard what I had to say with great good humour.

  • Still, I don't think a sensible woman, if she were ever so good and devoted, would encourage his fretting over the disappointment, or lead him to waste his time when so much depends on his diligence.

  • You are a sensible woman, Caroline, in the midst of this severe reverse!

  • As you are a sensible woman, Mother Carey, wasn't it a more goodly and edifying thing to put a man like Bauerson in a trance over the bluebells, than to sit cramped up in foul air listening to the glorification of a wholesale massacre.

  • She was a sensible woman and so she could not help looking upon me as a dissolute profligate incapable of real love.

  • The mamma, she said, was a sensible woman.

  • I asked her like a sensible woman to invite people, especially those who knew my late husband, and look at the set of fools she has brought!

  • But a sensible woman and a jealous woman are two very different things, and that's where the trouble came in.

  • You may call one a silly piece, a romp, or a heartless coquette without offence; but never a sensible woman.

  • Then giving a smirk and a flourishing bow, he said: "Madam, you look to be a sensible woman.

  • That there isn't a sensible woman or an original idea, so far, on the block.

  • Mr. Overtop was drawn by an irresistible impulse into the vicinity of Mrs. Frump, having detected in her general appearance certain indications of what he called "a sensible woman.


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