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Example sentences for "young lady"

  • When a young lady, thus embarrassed, wrote to Carlyle for counsel, he sympathetically bade her 'put her drawers in order.

  • I never in my life knew a young lady so prolific of flats as you.

  • It is reported that Cervantes was paying his addresses to a young lady, whose name was Quijana or Quijada.

  • He tells me he has been introduced to a young lady, who was formerly one of Miss Ladd's pupils, and who is the daughter of Mr. Wyvil, of Monksmoor Park.

  • The most beautiful girl in the school was not an object of interest to a young lady with an obstinate chin and unfortunately-placed eyes.

  • They were fast asleep--and the stoutest of the three (softly, as became a young lady) was snoring!

  • Although his manners might be unpleasant, he had claims on the indulgence of a young lady, who was at a loss how to employ her idle time.

  • Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

  • Most prominent and active among the corps of performers was what I took to be (and she really gave me very fair opportunities of coming to a right conclusion) a young lady of a pretty figure.

  • Herbert Linley had rashly anticipated that the "young lady," whom it was the object of his visit to see, would prove to be young in the literal sense of the word.

  • In a few years more she will be a young lady.

  • A Young Lady wishes to be employed in the education of a little girl.

  • She looked at me and my dress in great surprise and said her lodgings were hardly fit for a young lady like me.

  • For she had been familiarised with the appearance of the wil cattle during her walks in the chase; and it was not then, as it may be now, a necessary part of a young lady's demeanour to indulge in causeless tremors of the nerves.

  • Caleb was present at this extraordinary scene, and he could conceive no other reason for a proceeding so extraordinary than an alliance betwixt the houses, and Ravenswood Castle assigned for the young lady's dowry.

  • I cannot walk by a young lady's side without plunging headlong in love with her?

  • To tell you the truth, I'm rather proud of my office, young lady!

  • I'm not a young lady," Evelyn flashed; she bit her underlip.

  • He was assisting a young lady, by name Evelyn Murgatroyd, as he spoke.

  • But St. John was decidedly cautious, as she could see by the sudden constriction of his lips, and had no intention of revealing his soul to a young lady.

  • It's an odd thing to say to a young lady," he continued.

  • It took him a moment to recover from the impropriety of having snored, and possibly grunted, before a young lady.

  • A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

  • Here are a young gentleman and a young lady, both rich people; both well matched in birth and character; one of age, and the other marrying with the full consent and approval of her guardian.

  • He would receive you civilly, because you are a young lady; but he would let you see, at the same time, that he considered you had taken advantage of the difference between your position and his position to commit an intrusion.

  • Here is a young lady," he said, "who is a total stranger to me.

  • Do pray remember what you said yourself, the first time you had the chance of opening your heart to your young lady.

  • Surely he would prefer writing to Miss Giles to join him when he got to a safe place of refuge, rather than encumber himself with the young lady before he was well out of reach of the far-stretching arm of the law.

  • If I am asked what was the true reason for this extraordinary activity on my part, in serving the interests of a set of people for whom I cared nothing, I must honestly own that the loss of my young lady was at the bottom of it.

  • I was still admiring Mr. Pickup's Old Masters, when a dirty little boy opened the door of the gallery, and introduced a young lady.

  • Young lady,' answered the doctor, 'I both could and did; and you will live to thank me for that baseness.

  • A young lady of education should not be ignorant of money affairs altogether.

  • Williams mentions the case of a young lady of fifteen with scarcely any hair on the eyebrows or head and no eyelashes.

  • The first was that of a young lady, who, after ten years' suppression of the menstrual discharge, exhibited the flow from a vesicular eruption on the finger.

  • Constantinedes reports absence of the external organs of generation, probably also of the uterus and its appendages, in a young lady.

  • A young lady of good breeding, when walking alone, should not talk or laugh in a loud boisterous manner.

  • In the first place, it is always customary in a city for a young lady, either accompanied or unaccompanied, to walk on the sidewalk.

  • One morning there comes into your financial institution a young lady, named Dorothy Doe, who at once attracts your attention by her genteel manners, as exemplified by the fact that she calls the president of your company "father.

  • So you consider your childhood a thing of the past, do you, young lady?

  • In order not to be ruined by a young lady so very superior as Dinah seemed to be, Monsieur de la Baudraye was shrewd enough to say nothing as to the recovery of debts in Paris.

  • A young lady, whose triumphs at school had been the outcome of her pride, and whose first scheme in life had been rewarded by a victory, was not likely to pause in such a brilliant career.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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