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Example sentences for "ladies"

Lexicographically close words:
laden; ladened; ladi; ladicte; ladie; lading; ladite; ladle; ladled; ladleful
  1. Enter Terill, Sir Adam, Sir Vaughan, Celestine, Mineuer and other Ladies and attendants with lights.

  2. Peter Salamanders draw out the pictures of all the ioynt stooles, & Ladies sit downe vpon their wodden faces.

  3. Ladies and Sentlemen, you are almost all welcome, to this sweet nuncions of Plums.

  4. Wilt please your Highnes take your place within, The Ladies attend the Table.

  5. They sat ensconced in flowers and drapings of satin brocade, looking down upon splendidly and wonderfully dressed princes and dukes, lords and counts, with their ladies dancing the gavotte.

  6. Great ladies became so familiar, they would take up her articles of the toilet and copy the manufacturer's name.

  7. Indeed, she was constantly visited by the King and Queen, and the greatest ladies of the Court.

  8. After dancing the stately gavotte, it appeared that the whole company became heavy and wished for retirement; it might have been a ruse on the part of beaux, and the fair ones fell into the trap; be it as it may, the ladies retired.

  9. This idea, however, was not altogether original; for Lady Constance had given her a graphic description of her presentation, and the requirements due to all ladies of note.

  10. His speech was translated by Jeffrey, and, though it was highly applauded, fell much short of the effect amongst the ladies which he had produced on former occasions.

  11. He said, "he had sat down by the side of the railing with his wife, where these ladies came to them.

  12. A great deal, Jim said, they had seen of these ladies as they were every day looking out of their own windows in St. James's Street.

  13. Great pains were taken by the ladies and gentlemen to help the Indians to the luxuries they might like best; and amongst others that were offered, their glasses were filled with sparkling champagne, in which their health was proposed.

  14. Through the interpreter, the ladies complimented them for their dances and songs, which they had heard, and pronounced to be very wonderful.

  15. She and a party of ladies and gentlemen dined at the hotel, and I was a waiter.

  16. The old gentleman bowed to the ladies and took the easy chair which the banker shoved toward him.

  17. Upon the ladies he would smile and throw off vague hints of future silks and fineries.

  18. And she placed Rachel's hand on her arm, and the two young ladies departed.

  19. And to this Dolly readily assented; and the vicar, evidently much troubled in mind, having run up to the nursery to see his little man, the two ladies set out together.

  20. Her brother was to see her home, and there was a leave-taking, and the young ladies whispered a word or two, and kissed, after the manner of their kind.

  21. Mark's ideas of ladies and of propriety were low, and he was little better than a sailor ashore, and not a good specimen of that class of monster.

  22. And the young ladies parted with a kiss, and then another.

  23. But all this time the ladies are conversing in Dorcas's boudoir.

  24. The critical process of 'coming out' is here consummated by the young ladies of that town and vicinage.

  25. Old Major Jackson kept the young ladies in practice between whiles, with his barren gallantries and graces, and was, just so far, better than nothing.

  26. The ladies had accomplished their ascension to the upper regions.

  27. Long before the hour for the meeting, the immense hall was crowded; and notwithstanding the stormy evening, the proportion of ladies present was larger than ever before seen in New York on such an occasion.

  28. Mr. Sumner then came forward, and was received by the vast audience with tumultuous applause, in which the ladies joined with every manifestation of delight.

  29. They were called White Ladies and Boscobel, and were inhabited by staunch Royalists named Penderel; so the king knew he would be safe there.

  30. But the advantages of the custom were much appreciated by the squires and ladies of the day, and this process of development led to a multiplication of rooms, and the diminution of the size of the great hall.

  31. Knights and nobles lie clad in armour with their ladies by their sides.

  32. The walls were hung with tapestry, woven by the skilled fingers of the ladies of the household.

  33. The seats reserved for the noble ladies and gentlemen who came to see the fight were hung with tapestry embroidered with gold and silver.

  34. If a knight was guilty of any impropriety of conduct, he was soundly beaten by the other knights, in order to teach him to respect the honour of the ladies and the rights of chivalry.

  35. She remembered her India shawl that Dobbin sent her, which might be of value to a merchant with whom ladies had all sorts of dealings and bargains in these articles.

  36. The ladies begged occasionally that the child might pass a day with them, and he was always glad to go to that fine villa on Denmark Hill, where there were such fine grapes in the hot-house and peaches on the walls.

  37. You four ladies and Mr. Fitch shall go inside.

  38. He regaled the ladies of the regiment with dive's letters, and those of Miss Honeyman, which contained an account of the boy.

  39. By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment Rebecca Sharp looked like a child.

  40. He had a good forehead shaded with a quantity of waving light hair; a complexion which ladies might envy; a mouth which seemed accustomed to laughing; and a pair of blue eyes that sparkled with intelligence and frank kindness.

  41. It isn't rank and that: only somehow there are some men gentlemen and some not, and some women ladies and some not.

  42. She took advantage, therefore, of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course of study considered necessary for ladies in those days.

  43. For some time he had a hard struggle with poverty, but his manners were so gentleman-like and soothing that he was called in to prescribe for some of the ladies in the best families of Bath.

  44. It is, therefore, young ladies and gentlemen, to this end and not to this hour, that your teachers have faithfully labored to bring you.

  45. Ladies and Gentlemen:--I am happy in the privilege of again addressing you in the interests of the great work in which you are so nobly engaged.

  46. These were cuts at the young ladies and criticisms of their performances, as sharp as I could make them.

  47. I have since met many of those young ladies in all parts of the country, mothers of interesting families, but not one of them had ever forgotten that scrap-basket.

  48. How few young ladies and gentlemen meet the expectations raised by their educational advantages!

  49. The ladies often needed help, and there seemed to be something very pleasant to Kennedy in the light touch of Violet's hand, for he lent her his arm or his alpenstock oftener than was absolutely required.

  50. Lillyston shook his head, and bidding the ladies a warm good-bye, left them to enjoy with Julian his first quiet evening in Saint Werner's, Camford.

  51. Ladies are comparatively rare apparitions in that semi-monastic body of scholars; and ladies both young and lovely are rare indeed.

  52. Several ladies more or less connected with Saint Werner's offered their services to Lady De Vayne, but she would not leave her son, in whose welfare and recovery her whole thoughts were absorbed.

  53. Or as high as we ladies can get," said Mrs Dudley.

  54. Great lords and ladies sold their lands and houses in order to have money to buy more shares.

  55. Learned men and fine ladies called him friend, poets sang of his deeds, and the great Samuel Johnson wanted to write his life.

  56. The ladies of the court were made to treat Pocahontas with great ceremony.

  57. Later the Church was burned down, but it was rebuilt, and as a memorial to Pocahontas American ladies have placed a stained glass window there, and also a pulpit made of Virginian wood.

  58. Dig knew his part well, and acted it with such a depth of low comedy that it mattered little what mistakes or blunders the funny irascible and the funny meek gentlemen and ladies made.

  59. The ladies were in great distress about some lost luggage--lost by the kind offices of the boy--and I went back to Como to look for it.

  60. Inwardly he cursed bitterly the ladies who had sympathized and the Governor who had pardoned.

  61. Every day an orderly from division headquarters clattered up to the hospital to inquire after his health, and the ladies who had followed their soldier husbands as far as Manila sent flowers.

  62. Your youth and ill health appealed to some ladies who went through the prison.

  63. Ladies like to have verses written to them, and Cesarini, who talked very little, made up for it by scribbling eternally.

  64. I am glad of it, for I can have no fainting fine ladies with me.

  65. And to no pretensions do ladies ever concede with so little demur, as those which depend upon that feminine art which all study, and in which few excel.

  66. The gentlemen were still in the stubble-fields, the ladies were out in barouches and pony phaetons, and Cleveland and Lady Florence were alone.

  67. This is precisely the scene which our fine ladies and fine writers would die to talk of and to describe.

  68. A few ladies of middle age move noiselessly along the pavement, returning home to tea: they wear white muslin dresses, green spencers a little faded, straw poke bonnets with green or coffee-coloured gauze veils.

  69. The Italian sang well; many young ladies were grouped round him, amongst others Florence Lascelles.

  70. He began to talk of the satiety of wealth, and young ladies listened to him with remarkable interest when he did so--he obtained the reputation of riches--he was too vain not to be charmed with it.

  71. But of all that related to that subtle orbit in which gentlemen and ladies move in elevated and ethereal order, Cleveland was a profound philosopher.

  72. But it was known, at least, that she had entered the house a poor peasant girl; and what more common than for ladies of a certain description to run away from their lover, and take some of his property by mistake?

  73. He even went to Court, where the great ladies and the royal princesses made much of the wonderful tea-kettle.

  74. And lords and ladies passed by, in brave attire and great array, borne in their gilded kago.

  75. I am bound for Kioto, and the Mikado's Palace, to sell my gauds to the ladies of the Court.

  76. One Sunday afternoon in every three months the rector and several ladies went down and sang hymns for him in his mission-house.

  77. There was a woman seated near the window, a woman with a plain, homely face such as they wear in the farm kitchens of Cahoga County, and a set of fashionable clothes upon her such as they sell to the ladies of Plutoria Avenue.

  78. How dreadfully hard he works," said the ladies to one another as they moved away.

  79. But on ordinary days there are no ladies in the club, but only the shepherds.

  80. Somehow many of the ladies realized at the moment what cheery, safe, reliable people policemen in blue are, and what a friendly, familiar shelter they offer against the wiles of Oriental occultism.

  81. There remained nothing of it except the efforts of a committee of ladies to raise enough money to enable Signor Puffi to leave town, and the generous attempt of another committee to gather funds in order to keep Signor Pasti in the City.

  82. So he was looked upon as a great authority on India, China, Mongolia, and all such places, by the ladies of Plutoria Avenue.

  83. He had a long brown face and liquid brown eyes of such depth that when he turned them full upon the ladies before him a shiver of interest and apprehension followed in the track of his glance.

  84. Each of the ladies was requested to bring to the seance some ornament of gold; but it must be plain gold, without any setting of stones.

  85. We were waiting for them," explained a tall police officer to the two or three ladies who now gathered round him with a return of courage.

  86. It was seen by forty or fifty ladies and gentlemen, who insist that they could not have been deceived.

  87. We were moving to the house; at the steps we halted; the place was all alight and the ladies were arriving in the parlor.

  88. He would never have come, Gholson hurried on to say, had not Major Harper kindly suggested that a Sabbath spent with certain four ladies would be a timely preventive.

  89. I galloped away filled with an absurd foreboding that he was too sure, which may have come wholly from my bad temper at being started too late to see our ladies before morning.

  90. I once snapped out with a ring that made the trees reply and the ladies catch their breath.

  91. We came into the homestead grove at a constrained trot and found the ladies out on the veranda in liveliest suspense between scepticism and alarm.

  92. The post-quartermaster waved to the ladies and they to us.

  93. I tendered it back silently, and saw that he knew its purport already from the Major, and that the ladies knew it from him.

  94. I even decided not to inform Lieutenant Durand until after the repast, that ladies under my escort did not pick acquaintanceship with soldiers on the public highway.

  95. Yes, the Harper ladies are mighty lovely and hard enough to leave, but that's all I meant to you, and I'm sorry I touched your feelings.

  96. The ladies flew to the house and the rest of us to the stable.

  97. I responded tartly that I had that very morning met four ladies the poetry of whose actual, visible loveliness had abundantly illustrated to me the needlessness and impertinence of fiction!

  98. Contending that one fan was quite enough, he bade the remaining nine ladies sit at the table with him and eat; and when for very shyness they did not eat, he helped them to the choicest morsels until they could not refrain.

  99. Ten of the most beautiful ladies of the Court stood about the seat set for him with fans to fan him while he dined.

  100. The officers and the ladies of the Court were there, placed according to their rank.

  101. Wait till you see the ladies of the court, my ascetic.

  102. I dare swear that your ladies here in Yucatan are not so provincial to-day as ours were then.

  103. He was one of them, took part in their tournaments, rescued the lovely ladies and overcame wicked monsters for his king.

  104. Titled ladies wove, knitted and stitched their pleasing emotions into various memorials of friendship.

  105. She acted in life what so many of our belligerent ladies urge others to do--and never attempt on their own account.

  106. Few outcasts of this sort are to be found in his pages, and those few are unflinchingly etched, as, for example, the ladies in The Millionaire.

  107. Of the heavy-flanked Percheron breed of horse are the ladies on the canvases of Cezanne.

  108. The Matter-of-Fact Persons have arrived at a Pastel representing several green and yellow ladies seated undraped around a fountain, with fiddles suspended to the branches above.

  109. Beshrew me but ladies never deport themselves in such unmannerly fashion--no, nor even think on't.

  110. Officers and men had formed a sort of cordon, and from the gallery several ladies looked down and waved handkerchiefs.

  111. And it would only do for ladies like you and Madame Giffard.

  112. I suppose the great ladies in Paris feel very grand in some of these things.

  113. The ladies over yonder talk of them because it is a fashion, but when they ride through the parks and woods they want a train of admirers.

  114. And now she knew so much about France and the beautiful city called Paris, where the King and Queen lived, and ladies who went gowned just like Madame, the first time she saw her.

  115. It must often occur to those who hear our young ladies sing and play, that the accomplishment is little valued by them, save as an outward social adornment.


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