With zone of grass the votaress was bound, Which reddened the fair form it girdled round: Never before the lady's waist had felt The ceaseless torment of so rough a belt.
Then came the hermits of the holy wood To see the votaress in her solitude; Grey elders came; though young the maid might seem, Her perfect virtue must command esteem.
Illustration: Earl of Leicester receiving Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth "And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation fancy free.
But Janak’s child, my lord, stood by, And oft the votaress heaved a sigh.
The princes reached the holy ground Where noble trees stood thick around, And joying in the lovely view Near to the aged votaress drew.
The wretched votaress how sustain, Who mourns her child in ceaseless pain?
Pure votaressshe shone with light Of fervent zeal and holy rite.
This is the spot—so men have told— Where Lord Mahendra(215) dwelt of old, This is the blessed region where His votaressmother claimed his care.
Beneath the shade of holy boughs That ancient votaress keeps her vows.
Yon lightning, as it flashes through The giant cloud of sable hue, Recalls myvotaress Sítá pressed Mid struggles to the demon’s breast.
Clasping her husband’s lifeless clay A while the weeping votaress lay, Till chamberlains removed her thence O’ercome by sorrow’s violence.
The Lady of the Garde Doloureuse seemed to smile on her amid her dreams, and to promise her votaress protection.
Methinks, since the vowedvotaress of the Virgin rejects me, it is to her holy patroness whom I ought to apply for succour.
The following passage from Mrs. Wordsworth's Journal describes The Votaress by Lugano's side.
The figure of the votaress is somewhat similar; but her skirt is flounced all the way down in the regular Minoan style, and she holds a snake in her right hand.
A little careful practice will soon make this department familiar to the expert votaress of the needle.
The mother-superior took the votaress at her word, and left her then and there.
Surely, daughter," said the abbess, gently as with her own hand she opened the door and led her votaressinto the room.
The abandoned votaressbore him a daughter, and the infant was conveyed away by the lover, and placed under the care of a peasant's wife, at Barrowford.
The fair votaress would be the sort of ghost for me.
Upon one occasion it chanced that he made a visit in disguise to Whalley Abbey, and, passing the little hermitage near the church, beheld the votaress who tenanted it.
I told you the fair votaress gave me the clin d'oeil--the wink.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "votaress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
