How To Use Duenna In A Sentence
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Apparently she never has the chance of being actually guilty, for her husband finally, and very properly, shuts her up in a country house under strong duennaship.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Indeed, she had only roused herself from her apathy at the threat of losing the Worm, when she had (in the words of Shurland) kicked up such a dust that he had overborne his wife and allowed the duenna to remain.
Gatlinburg
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And The duenna transferred one hand to her bosom, drawing a painful breath.
Gatlinburg
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With this assurance, the duenna had allowed herself to be contented, and she had departed, sped on her way by Lady Hester's promise that a hot brick and a soothing drink would be sent up as soon as may be.
Gatlinburg
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Glencora, Alice thought, should not have allowed the word duenna to have passed her lips in speaking to anyone; but, above all, she should not have done so in the hearing of Mr Palliser's cousin.
Can You Forgive Her?
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Glencora, Alice thought, should not have allowed the word duenna to have passed her lips in speaking to anyone; but, above all, she should not have done so in the hearing of Mr Palliser’s cousin.
Can you forgive her?
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You will perhaps be surprised to learn that his choice of chaperone … duenna … and may I say, mother?
The Red Queen
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Her mother, a dingy old dowager, with bad teeth, dowdy gowns, a profusion of artificial flowers, and a strong addiction to tea and knitting, perfectly understood the duties of duennaship, and did propriety by her daughter's side at dinner-table and promenade.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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Glencora, Alice thought, should not have allowed the word duenna to have passed her lips in speaking to any one; but, above all, she should not have done so in the hearing of Mr Palliser's cousin.
Can You Forgive Her?
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But Rose stayed where she was, feeling like a duenna, turning down partners with a laugh or a joke.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
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Smith was in many respects an absurd figure, but he created a great romantic legend by falling in love with a 14-year-old Spanish girl named Juana, whose duenna threw herself and her young charge on the Rifle Brigade's mercy amid the ruins of sacked Badajoz in 1812.
Five Best War Memoirs
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He planted his watchful mo - ther as a kind of duenna over her, when - ever he rode out to pay his complin: ients tQ the lord of Gravenegg, whofe vaffal he was.
Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford].
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It happened by a rare chance that some of my fellows were on the point of setting out for the mainland, -- and he knew that he could safely entrust you to Mrs. Morfit's duennaship, he said.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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As the first steps towards the execution of this honest scheme, he had subjected Aurelia to the superintendency and direction of an old duenna, who had been formerly the procuress of his pleasures; and hired a new set of servants, who were given to understand, at their first admission, that the young lady was disordered in her brain.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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The Duenna, seeing DQ, is so terrified she screams.
Rambling « So Many Books
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When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
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Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don
Don Quixote
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Like a duenna snapping open her fan – the car snapped open a pair of elegant wings and soared off into Adventure.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again
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duenna" would be filled if she attempted to "look after" a bevy of typical American girls, with their independent -- yet confused -- ideas of social requirements in the matter of chaperonage.
Etiquette
