A request to the wardress for a glass of water was instantly complied with, and Jeanne then washed the fatal poison down.
She uttered a gasp of terror, and would have fallen had not the wardress clutched her, and although the trial continued for several hours longer she scarcely understood what was happening.
I can't think of words unpleasant enough to describe the odiousness of that particularwardress into whose charge we were given.
All the confidence with which she'd faced the wardress last night seemed to have evaporated in those hours of wakeful tossing on that vilely uncomfortable prison bed.
She sat on the edge of the bed--the wardress was too busy with the flood of arrivals that day to discover that she had it down--and her skin was shivering from the contact of these garments.
Part 5 One afternoon, while everything was still, the wardress heard her cry out suddenly and alarmingly, and with great and unmistakable passion, "Why in the name of goodness did I burn that twenty pounds?
They had sent five men from Scotland Yard, two men from Plymouth and a wardress from Holloway, a sufficient number, it will be allowed, to take one woman from a ship anchored two miles out at sea.
The sole concessions granted me, however, were removal to a better cell and the right to see my secretary and my solicitor, but only in the presence of a wardress and a member of the prison clerical staff.
By and by a wardresscame to the door and threw me a blanket.
Desperate, at last I begged the wardress for some sewing, and she kindly gave me a skirt of her own to hem, and later some coarse knitting to do.
A wardress ran up to us, saying: "I shall listen to everything you say.
At least I gathered as much from the alarmed expression of the wardress who accompanied him.
For this I was characterised as a "dangerous criminal" and was sent into solitary confinement, without exercise or chapel, while a wardress was stationed constantly at my cell door to see that I communicated with no one.
I entered a room where another wardress sat at a table, ready to take an inventory of my effects.
Another wardress had hastily left the yard, and now she returned with a large number of wardresses.
At this point in her smiling reminiscences, the wardress clanged open the door and slammed down a mug of cocoa and a slab of brown bread; and rapped out some orders in such a martinet utterance that they were difficult to understand.
They were always treated in prison far more tenderly than were Suffragettes, and the average wardress adored them and obtained for them many little alleviations of their lot before the Home Secretary gave way and released them.
Strictly speaking this was only to last fifteen minutes, but the wardress who had conceived a liking for her intimated that she wouldn't look too closely at her watch.
Stolidly pursuing her way, the wardress looked straight in front of her for so long, Nan thought, as she told Napier afterward, that the woman wasn't going to speak at all.
When the head jailer came back, he had a wardress in tow.
A glimpse of the tall wardress shutting herself out and shutting in a squat figure clad in shapeless gray serge garments and a foolish cap.
Nan fled shuddering along the corridor, a wardress at her heels.
Through more corridors they passed till the wardress stopped just short of an open door and rang a bell.
The youngerwardress had slipped round behind the others.
The tall wardress seized the disheveled figure by the other arm.
The wardress was even now in the act of closing the door of her cubicle, and there were a couple of soldiers who were disappearing from view round one end of the passage, whilst Chauvelin's retreating form was lost in the gloom at the other.
If you will kindly step in here a wardress in charge will explain to you what is required.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wardress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
