Where are the dukes and duchesses now who could play, not with success, but without disastrous failure, in an opera by Gluck?
If any one of three or four beautiful and charming Duchesses had heard the tone in which old Lady Loveland said this, she would have laughed or sneered, according to her mood.
Jealous still, Miss Moon was relieved to see that the signature was "Your adoring mother," but she was at a loss to understand allusions to duchesses and other persons of title.
Have the Duchesses and Countesses bestirred themselves and prevented his being examined?
However insensible duchesses may be, even these women, whose hearts are of stone, cannot see a friend a victim to madness without being painfully impressed by it.
He talks of all the duchesses by their Christian names.
Hulloa, Uncle Davenport, what price duchesses to-day?
We have let little bits of news leak out about us, and they think we are dukes and duchesses in Amerique, and pronounce us tres spirituelles; tres charmantes; tres seductives femmes.
Loire in a queer little inn where we are considered duchesses at least, owing to our big trunks and A.
At the former the very duchesses were demi-reps; at the latter even the termagant Montespan never forgot the dignity and breeding due to her position.
While the cortège was on its way, two of the resplendent duchesses quarrelled over some question of precedence.
Having been gently led into the street by the aldermen, the Duchesses timidly returned to the portico and seated themselves in their old places.
The empress Amelia, dowager of the late emperor Joseph, came this evening to wait on the reigning empress, followed by the two arch-duchesses her daughters, who are very agreeable young princesses.
The arch-duchesses sat on chairs with backs without arms.
One might bow to half the dukes and duchesses in England, and feel only the more strange.
He was rarely without a pocket-full of letters from duchesses or noblemen in England.
Old portraits of stern ancestors cramped in their doublets, or Duchesses de Rosas, with pale faces, sad countenances, buried in their collars whose guipures have been limned by Velasquez or Claude Coëllo.
There are Duchesses de Rosas who will look on you, as you pass, over their plaited collars, and as there were neither adulteresses nor courtesans among them, they will probably ask what the Parisian is doing among them.
In my time we learnt pleasant things; we played cards, fought duels, though against the law; and wasted our time on duchesses and money on opera dancers.
It is clear that your experience has been in following duchesses or marchionesses.
Do you find duchesses and countesses playing the kitchen-wench?
He said that the Dukes were much less obedient to him than the Princes; and that although many Duchesses had refused to make the collection, the moment he had proposed that the daughter of M.
Madame de Bourgogne was annoyed, but she did not dare to push matters farther; and, in consequence of this refusal, none of the Duchesses would make the collection.
That's what the Dukes and Duchesses call honour among thieves!
Dukes and duchesses are no doubt very grand people," he said, "but it is a pity they should not know how to behave honestly, as they expect others to behave to them.
Not long ago, the Duchesses of Chartres and of Luynes waited four hours in the rain, because, having met in a very narrow street, neither one of their coachmen would back out, to give the other an opportunity of passing.
I must now speak to you of a new acquaintance I made about this Period--that of the two duchesses d'Aiguillon.
Rousseau to madame du Barry--The two duchesses d'Aiguillon Spite of the little estimation in which I held men of letters, generally speaking, you must not take it for granted that I entertained an equal indifference for all these gentlemen.
Annyhow, th' American duchesses is about all there is to it in London.
Only officers who are eloping with grand duchesses wear court uniform: otherwise the grand duchesses could not be seen with them.
Penhaven's distinguished gloom was not disturbed, and in their subterranean vaults lying all along their stones, the dukes and the abbes and the duchesses remained unlit in their stern crypts by the verger's candle on this Christmas Eve.
And Duchesses don't drop off the face of the earth.
The women were very troublesome that year after Count Saxe, and a gay set of rival duchesses came near driving him to drink.
In fact, I was instructed to say that we were going to the Pyrenees, and the story took so well that both the duchessessent their private spies to Spain to find out what my master was doing there.
We traveled briskly, and at every step that we left the duchesses behind my master's spirits rose.
It was the hauteur of foolish duchesses or purse-proud roturiers that she loved, and scrupled not, to abase.
On certain days, when I went out towards five o'clock, I had to push my way through a procession of bishops in aprons and gaiters, deans and ordinary parsons who were legion, dowagers and duchesses who were as sands on the stairs.
The Church League of the First Floor Front, haunted by bishops and deans, duchesses and dowagers, was of course closed, and we were deprived of whatever spiritual consolation their presence might have provided.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duchesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
