How To Use Madam In A Sentence

A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
Madame Grès, born Germaine Krebs, was once as well-known as her contemporary Coco Chanel, but while Ms. Chanel sold mass-produced ready-to-wear, Ms. Grès designed only hand-made haute couture that sold first as the label "Alix" and later as "Madame Grès. Collecting Vintage Dresses Like Art
The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
I gave my ideas on "playwriting" again at Philadelphia, and was told just before I began that there were several dramatists in the room, including the author of Madame Butterfly. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
Madame Zara caters for a very select clientele.

_philosopheress_ Madame du Châtelet, who managed, at one and the same moment, the thread of an intrigue, her cards at piquet, and a calculation in algebra, was a very clever woman! Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
( "Madamina il catalogo") popularly known as the "Catalogue Song," which is full of broad humor, though its subject is far from possessing that quality. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
My brother-in-law went into another room, and madame de Bearn began to unswathe her foot in my presence with the utmost caution and tenderness. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
A few well-garlanded madams of the society crowd passed by, gossiping, their rich black minks set for the chill in the Springtime air, their heels clopping gently on the sidewalk.
DeLay is starting to resemble the Madam of a Whorehouse claiming that she had no idea what was going on upstairs, and she’s just shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the girls were involved in hanky panky. Think Progress » DeLay: ‘I Cannot Run For Office’ In Texas, ‘I’m Ineligible’
Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
After a long time, having obtained with difficulty the consent of the timid Du Mont, I made Madame de Saint-Simon speak to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who undertook to arrange the affair as well as it could be arranged. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs? The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
“Then, madame, am I not overbold in offering myself to be your partner for the next quadrille?” Domestic Peace
The plot is thus: Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own death through her crystal ball with only 24 hours before the allotted hour.
He had by a second will bequeathed all his possessions to the Church, reserving in them a life-interest for his virtual wife; and when the cousinry swooped down on what they thought their prey, Madame Mulhausen could receive them and their condolences with the indignant scorn which their greed and cruelty deserved. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
"Certainly, madam," he replied.
German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper. Une Vie
Madame Olenska has had an unhappy life: that doesn't make her an outcast.
Standing and gathering her cloak tightly around her shoulders she turned away from Madam Corbeau's pinched expression and down the lane.
Pictured, Ms. Kapoor, left, posed with her waxwork at Madame Tussauds in England, Oct. 27. India's Most Googled, 2011
To Madame Hanska he revealed more the cankering disappointment, just as he had a twelvemonth previously, after the mishap of the School for Husbands and Balzac
But as she was going to her room that night, Fräulein Rottenmeier waylaid her, and drawing her into her own, gave her strict injunctions as to how she was to address Frau Sesemann when she arrived; on no account was she to call her "grandmamma," but always to say "madam" to her. Heidi
hollered one ample young madam, under the misapprehension she was being casually friendly. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
He looked her in the eye with a pained expression and said ‘Madam, no one chooses red frames’.
Ricciardo loving this Madam Catulla, and using all such means whereby the grace and liking of a Lady might be obtained; found it yet a matter beyond possibility, to compasse the height of his desire: so that many desperate and dangerous resolutions beleagred his braine, seeming so intricate and unlikely to affoord any hopefull yssue, as hee wished for nothing more then death. The Decameron
Madame de Vernuel, who saw it, had not said la Reine boit. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Every morning Madam Duff goes on to the beach to plead with young men intent of gambling their lives in a quest for an eldorado in Europe.
'Rack his style, Madam, _rack his style_?' he said to Queen Elizabeth, as he tells us, when she consulted him -- he being then of her counsel learned, in the case of Dr. Hayward, charged with having written 'the book of the deposing of Richard the Second, and the _coming in_ of The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
[13: 48] Zep Palen: Madam. .the point is ... have an oppinion and you are sabled World of SL
A federal jury found the so-called DC madam guilty of running a high-end prostitution ring. Deborah Palfrey said her now- defunct business was an "erotic fantasy service".
Madam Secretary, I'll start with you.
Look on him, Sir, -- do not you guess from that Look, and wrying of his Mouth, that you mistook the Bracelets for Diamond Rings, which he humbly begs, Madam, you would grace with your fair Hand? The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
I have the copy of a letter, said I, from this Brand, in which he has taken great liberties with my character, and with that of the most unblamable lady in the world, which he grounds upon information that you, Madam, have given him. Clarissa Harlowe
Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!"— 'So it is. madam.'.
Oh, my little rogue, my pretty bird! well, then, it shall have a new coral, it shall -- Now, Madam, pray you look on this piece of wastry! It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Do you have an account at this store/with us, madam?
It is said that imitation is the sincerest flattery; and if Isabel was sometimes moved to gape at her friend aspiringly and despairingly it was not so much because she desired herself to shine as because she wished to hold up the lamp for Madame Merle. The Portrait of a Lady
Je ne suis que le frotteur de madame, said the man, placing his arm a-kimbo, and flying about the room, in all sorts of attitudes, in, what Peter thought, a very burlesque manner. Paris Lions and London Tigers
White the madam have already sat severals in erection this of family nice friend, and then have white house to bless to visit of the womenfolk of a families.
I cannot think of drinking our good madam's wine myself, I assure you; I will just put it by the spence, (_spence_ means _cupboard_) till David is beginning to get about again, and then I think it will help to strengthen him. The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People
Only the old woman knew well the crucible, and the great work -- the one was cuckoldom, and the other the private property of Madame Advocate. Droll Stories — Volume 2
_ Now it comes into my head, the duke of Mantua makes an entertainment to night in masquerade: If you love extravagancy so well, madam, I'll put you into the head of one; lay by your nunship for an hour or two, and come amongst us in disguise. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
Women's hosiery you'll find on the second floor, Madam.
Consequently he assigned to Angelo an income revertible after his death to Madam Solimann. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine.
The Captain is the benevolent-yet-stern sheriff of this here town and Madame La is his beatific, beautiful wife.
The former was called Madame, because she was canoness of a chapter at Lorraine. The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
- While I was still under the almost first impression of grief for the loss of my dear and honoured father I received a letter from Windsor Castle, written by Madame Beckersdorff, at the command of her majesty, to desire I would take the necessary measures for being presented to son altesse royale Madame The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
A servant rushed in, out of breath , and announced tensely, " Madam Chang has come.
I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!' Stray Pearls
The syndic is a lively young man, and he receives Madame Adolphe with Analytical Studies
The galleries linking the chambers, often piled high with bottles of maturing bubbly, are named after places where Madame Pommery sold large quantities of champagne.
She made a formal declaration that her Majesty, with the assistance of Madame Campan, had packed up all her jewelry some time before the departure; that she was certain of it, as she had found the diamonds, and the cotton which served to wrap them, scattered upon the sofa in the Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
"As you please, madam, " said the man who had saved us.
The historian Sismondi declared, "You have not known Madame de Staël at all if you have not seen her with Benjamin Constant. The Great de Staël
The lord of cuckoldom and its surrounding lands, who is a strange lord, managed things so well, that madame was only conversing with her lord lover at the time that her lord spouse was talking to the constable and the king; at which he was pleased, and so was his wife -- a case of concord rare in matrimony. Droll Stories — Volume 3
This fine revival stars — and the verb is for once deeply appropriate — Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole, Jayne Atkinson, and Angela Lansbury in the role of Madame Arcati. Blithe Spirit
And so, you see, d'you see, says I, 'Tom Bruce, do you stick to the critter, and he'll holp you out of the skrimmage;' and, says I, 'I'll take the back-track, and foller atter madam.' Nick of the Woods
Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
So soone as Dioneus had ended his Novell, Madame Lauretta also knew, that the conclusion of her Regiment was come; whereupon, when the counsell of Canigiano had past with generall commendation, and the wit of Salabetto no lesse applauded, for fitting it with such an effectuall prosecution; shee tooke the Crowne of Laurell from her owne head, and set it upon Madame Aimilliaes, speaking graciously in this manner. The Decameron
Madam President, this is a question of logistics.
We began with soup, chicken for Madame and steak and kidney for me.
The long sustained deception has been dropped," says a paragraphist, "and the young man who assumed the name of 'Madame Zoyara' is now to be seen in correct masculine attire. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
Madam," interrupted Landless with a curious smile upon his lips, "did you not know that I was, that I am, what you call a Roundhead? Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
Madam," now announced Hans from the door, "the baggage is packed, and the caroche awaiteth your Ladyship. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
The third portrait he promised to give to Madame Zborowska in gratitude for acting as a model.
The ordinary flowering Geranium must be pinched back, and pruned constantly to prevent it from becoming "leggy," but there is no trouble of this kind with Madame Salleroi. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
A lady at Paris, Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete. The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
Madame Calderón de la Barca (a quien, debo decirlo, Dresser cita mal en su discurso, pues vivió en México en el siglo XIX y no en el XVII, como la Dra. mencionó) y Alexander von Humboldt se maravillaron de muchas de las cosas que vieron en México, pero si algo llamó su atención fue la enorme riqueza del país y la gran pobreza que vivía a su alrededor. ��Cu��ndo nos daremos cuenta de que M��xico es s��lo nuestro?
Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
The chemist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrançois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone! Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
Madame Dort waddled over to the workbench, clanked her toolbox down beside it, flipped the heavy metal latches, and flung the thing open. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
“It refers to the dissipation of your fortune to the advantage of a certain Madame Jeanrenaud, the widow of a bargemaster — or rather, to that of her son, Colonel Jeanrenaud, for whom you are said to have procured an appointment, to have exhausted your influence with the King, and at last to have extended such protection as secures him a good marriage. The Commission in Lunacy
Madam Speaker, we are a city that cares about its future.
A sampler of this collection was also presented during a recent show of Satya Paul at Madame Tussaud's in London.
Her researches lead her to a Viennese brothel where the aged madam reveals the secret of the painting.
If you are told to address her as ‘Dear Madam’ the ending must be ‘Yours faithfully’.
Madame sighed and lifted the hem of her long, dusty rose pink dress out of the snow with her free hand.
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Madam Morgana, I think you ladies should thank Lobes, he killed that thread deader the the Libs chances of winning the next election. Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
MADAME, -- A peine arrivée dans cette contrée hospitalière après 9 jours d'une cruelle agonie, mon premier sentiment, après avoir béni la The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
For mains, Madame chose the pepper steak, which was presented to her order, while I went for the pork fillets, stuffed with champignons and pancake potatoes.
Continuing to demand a percentage from madams within the new districts, grafting officials increased the protection fees for brothels operating outside of the district's limits.
A woman who had been standing next to me called out, Madame!
Next, they admired the clothes in the window of Madame Irene's and Adele got the chance to tut-tut about the price of things. JUST BETWEEN US
Tomato juice, coffee, toast with ham, two eggs, over easy for madam.
Dear Sir / Madam, we have logged your IP-address on more than 40 illegal Websites.
This little gentilesse pleased, and atoned for the popery of my house, which was not serious enough for Madame de Boufflers, who is Montmorency, et du sang du premier Chritien; and too serious for Madame Dusson, who is a Dutch Calvinist. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
It's there in the lyrics of Christina Aguilera, the styling of Britney Spears and even the poses of mannequins in Madame Tussaud's (where a waxwork of Kylie Minogue depicts her on all fours with her bottom poking into the air).
Today, Madame X presents a sphinx-like figure - beautiful, imperious, and impenetrable.
Do you have an account at this store/with us, madam?
An employee of Madame (Veuve) Cliquot devised the system of pupitres to assist in the remuage process, which we know as riddling, that removes the sediment after the prise de mousse (development of the sparkle). At My Table
Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
I, Madame Zoe, chiromancer, lifelong student of the moldings and markings of the human hand; I, Madame Zoe, to whom no facet of your character or destiny is not readily revealed, I am prepared to ... Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Madame de Sevigne telling the story of the poisoner, Madame de Brinvilliers, about to undergo the water torture.
Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Then follows the tying of the skirt of the dress, which is suspended on hooks round the bottom of the corset, the buttoning of the corsage, the preliminary tapping and caressing necessary to make the folds of the skirt sit well, and then madame la baronne makes her appearance triumphantly before her friends assembled in the adjoining saloon. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
Madame, I goe as thou seest in this famous Voyage, as well for mine Honour, as also the benefite of my soule; all our goodes and possessions, I commit to thy vertuous care. The Decameron
Allow me, Madam, to return to the ladies the heartfelt thanks of the entire command for their kind consideration, not only in sending us these very appropriable good things, but also for their generous sympathy for those near and dear ones we have left behind us. The valley campaigns : being the reminiscences of a non-combatant while between the lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the war of the states,
Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.
At the command every student in the room hurriedly parked themselves in their specific seats and waited for instructions from the teacher, Madame Besson.
Will your majesty permit me to call the footman, and ask him to hurry up the postilion?" said Madame von Berg, leaning out of the window. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
French had just succeeded in taking across the last piece of artillery, a long "culverin" [1] (cannon), named _Madame de Forli_, [2] which had been re-taken from the Spaniards at Ravenna, was so heavy that it sank the first boat, and the poor soldiers, seeing they were lost, escaped as best they could, but many were killed and others drowned. Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
You see, Madame ----, and Madame ----, and Madame Budd, and myself thought we would visit Lady Washington, and as she was said to be so grand a lady, we thought we must put on our best bibbs and bands. Woman's Life in Colonial Days
As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
It was well after sunrise and Madame Comer was yet to show her spectacled face at Versailles.
Mr. Richards supports the argument of counsel for Madame Bihi on this question.
Our speaker today is, of course, a schoolmaster and one of his colleagues in replying to the enquiries of a fond parent as to the progress and safety of her son wrote "Dear Madam, such time as your son does not devote to self-adornment is spent in the neglect of his studies. Canada's Military Colleges
Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work. The Living Present
I run into some nefarious character, I don't even want to mention his name, who introduces me to Madam Alex.
The paintings, Madam Bacelli by Thomas Gainsborough, worth 2.5m, and The Scene of Florence by Bernado Belloto, worth 1.27m, have not been seen since, but are considered unsellable.
His new apparel somewhat shocked M. and Madame de Meroul who even at home on their estate always remained serious and respectable, as the particle "de" before their name exacted a certain amount of ceremonial even with their intimate friends. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
Charisma by Madame Tussaud", fumes venerable film critic Roger Ebert, as the film prepares effortlessly to hold its position at the top of the box office on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend.
This laddie can calm the jumpiest stallion, and guide a panicked team through a flood as if it were a meadow, madam. Soul
Madam Curie insisted there was something in nature that gave out radiation.
If you like I could always send a note to Eileen, the madam of the brothel, getting her to collaborate my story.
Sorel is predestined to fire his fatal pistol shot at Madame de Claude Simon - Nobel Lecture
It showed herself, Madeline, Monsieur and Madam Grandeur, and a few other people who worked with the organization, along with their spouses.
During last few decades hundreds of people from Kohat and other areas of NWFP were kidnapped for ransom many of them were released after payment of ransom by their families, good number of them were killed by the abductors, but in most of the cases people abducted from settled areas were kept in tribal areas of Pakistan, few of the abducted persons have also succeeded to escape from the prison cells of abductors, ‘last year Farooq Mechanic abducted from Kohat had escaped from the prison located in tribal area adjacent to Peshawar, he had got a chance to enter in a truck after unloading bricks from it, abductors were getting forced labor from prisoners to construct a building in tribal area,’ his agedly sister Madam Kishwar had said. Endless Abductions
“Do you mean to say, Madame, that you really think those chisellings and screws are forty years old?” Uncle Silas
Only Madame Hayle was allowed to do that, and the parson's wife, being quite without madame's art of doing as she pleased, had had to submit conscience and compassions to the captain's forbiddal, repeated by the commodore and Hugh. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
In matters less material Madame d'Alberg took as director the great authority of Shakspeare, and none can tell how many countless times she justified herself by repeating in the most suasory tone this little extract from Hamlet: Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
I tried to act utterly cool and nonplussed by the whole affaire de Madamoiselle A.
It will be noted that Madame Seiler spoke of the vocal bands (cords) proper as the "ligamentous glottis," and included in the "glottis" the arytenoid cartilages themselves, or, at all events, that part of them, their lower anterior angles, known as the vocal processes (or extensions), to which the vocal bands proper are attached. Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
When you happen to see either Monsieur or Madame Perny, I beg you will give them this melancholic proof of my caducity, and tell them that the last time I went to see the boys, I carried the Michaelmas quarterage in my pocket; and when I was there I totally forgot it; but assure them, that Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
A Sotelte, callid a pellican on hire nest with briddis and an ymage of Seint Katerine with a whele in hire hande disputyng with the Hethen clerks, having this Reason in hir hande, _Madame la Roigne_; the Pellican answeryng _Cest enseigne_; the briddes answeryng _Est du roy pur tenir joie. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
Bonjour Madame!" he'd say whenever he saw me, a little too flirtily for his age. The Red Cross Hotel (Part Five)
But the Madame concluded, I have faith that certain ineludible and fundamental principles are again emerging regnant and that self-interest, I repeat self-interest, of the superpowers will insure wiser and thought-out decisions. The Last Empress
But both the Italians and the Englishman felt the entertainment would be incomplete without hearing the celebrated vocalist and improvvisatrice who presided over the little banquet; and Madame de Montaigne, with a woman's tact, divined the general wish, and anticipated the request that was sure to be made. Ernest Maltravers — Complete
Certainly, madam, certainly," he said, "here is a spell that will have the effect you desire," and he handed her a ring containing a magnes microcosmi fully charged with the essence of life of an idiot. The Sorcery Club
`Sure, madam, it smells worse than hartshorn or sal ammoniac. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Seeing Madame Alberte in the window on cinema verite set my heart aflutter. Mamie - French Word-A-Day
Devoid of attractions or of amiable manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head — that of a woman near on sixty — with a cap of a particular and unvarying shape, with long lappets, like that of a widow. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
Miss Darnford said, And I can tell you, madam, that she plays sweetly upon the spinnet, and sings as sweetly to it; for she has a fine voice. Pamela
The reac - tion to the scholarly Sismondi was fairly mild, to the foreign Schlegel violent, and to Madame de Staël it was mixed and frequently baffled. ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
Ah, madam, Providence labors with quaint instruments, dilapidating Troy by means of a wood rocking-horse, and loosing sin into the universe through a half-eaten apple. The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers. A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
This was the kind of thinking that underlay the inspirational movies produced by Warner Brothers in the 1930s for which Variety coined the term "biopic" – films about medical pioneers, democratic revolutionaries and other movers and shakers who changed the world, invariably men MGM's Madame Curie was a rare exception. The Iron Lady – review
He led, I followed; he opened the door of a breakfast parlour -- "_Tenez, madame, voici le monsieur qui m'a renverse hier au soir_. Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
As to Madame de S **, I am by no means bound to be her beadsman -- she was always more civil to me in person than during my absence. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
The marquis made madame and Julia all the reparation in his power, by offering immediately to reconduct them to the main road, and to guard them to some place of safety for the night. A Sicilian Romance
I'm sorry, madam, but we have to go by the rules.
If madame la baronne will be good enough to come to-morrow, I will compose something for her in the mean time. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
‘Madam, I am of your opinion,’ says the second; ‘I think her face has a palish cast too much on the delicate order.’ The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
She is seated alone, when her clever maid Susanna ushers in the young page Cherubino, just banished from the house because obnoxious to the jealous Count.] _Susanna_ -- Here's our young Captain, Madame. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
Madam Imbert saw Mrs. Maroney in the evening and told her of the interview with De Forest. The Expressman and the Detective
We then went up and tried our own particular choices, with Madame having a hearty appetite that evening, as you will have seen from the photograph of her plate!
“Madame la vicomtesse,” said the abbe, who entered first into the little salon, “Monsieur le docteur Minoret was not willing that you should have the trouble of coming to him —” Ursula
He came to me one day and said he was sorry, Madame, but he wanted to go and work for someone else.
Madame de Stael: "To understand everything means to forgive everything," has never particularly appealed to me; it has the odor of the confessional; to forgive one's fellow-being conveys the idea of pharisaical superiority. Anarchism and Other Essays
[168] Qual Madama Sposa danzò molte danze al suono delli suoi Tamburini alla Romanesca e Spagnuola: report of Niccolò Gagnolo of Parma, who had accompanied the French ambassador to Ferrara. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
I remember the etymology of the word Oz, at least as proposed at a lecture by our Head, Madame Morrible. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
Yet again, there is little evidence to support this claim and much to suggest that Mitchell actually based the character on a madam from her husband's hometown of Lexington, Kentucky.
“Ah, madame!” said Butscha, “what you call my hump is the socket of my wings.” Modeste Mignon
Madame Roux is the latest addition to the City's growing sporting stable, which already includes a ladies football team and various motor-racing interests.
What is your bust size, madam?
Madame Antoine's place is immaculate, clean, and white.
Very well, madam," Kelson said, carefully concealing a smile, "here is what you want -- wear it next your heart;" and he gave her a locket, containing a magnes microcosmi charged with the essence of life of a leper, which he had procured at considerable risk and expense. The Sorcery Club
Ellen yearned to make a riposte, to say that all this seeming prosperity was insubstantial as a fog, but Madame Angelique suddenly held her drawing aloft, declaring, But see, an illustration excellente! The Dressmaker
I began my letter " Dear madam ".
What is your bust measurement, Madam?
I often managed, in our short interviews, to give them notes which Madame Élisabeth had contrived to secrete from the searches of the municipals; these notes usually related to information desired by Their Majesties. The Ruin of a Princess
Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism. The Last Empress
With a sour smile he got upon his feet, and, making an elaborate courtesy to Madame de St. André, passed through the colonnade from the bosquet. Calvert of Strathore
2.2 Madam Tunc and the primitive ADO - ideology: Combination of the term Assyrian / Syrian American Chronicle
That would certainly scandalize Madame Piquemal - a young lady of Monique Colin's persona seeking him out in his bedroom at this hour. MOONDROP TO MURDER
One thundery afternoon he goes riding with Madame Polozov. Betrayals Of Love
Once before he had tried Spencer, and choosing the "Principles of Psychology" to begin with, he had failed as abjectly as he had failed with Madam Blavatsky. Chapter 13
The first madame foreperson was Pallas Athena.
Last night Kristin Davis, the self-styled Manhattan madam who supplied prostitutes to former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, claimed Strauss-Kahn had also been a client. Grand jury to hear from alleged victim before Strauss-Kahn trial decision
_Hazaret Aallum-pennah, Salamet: fooker Darceish, ce jehaun-gesht hastam; ke mia emadam az wellageti door, yanne as muik Ingliz-stan, ke kessanion pesheen mushacar cardand, _ _ke wellageti mazcoor der akeri magrub bood, ke mader hamma jezzaereti dunia ast, &c. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Later, Madame Du Barry sent for the now famous _ebeniste_ (cabinet maker); and, when her negro page Zamore admitted him, he found His All About Coffee
I was pleased also to find two recordings by Toti Dal Monte, a great Italian coloratura who participated (with Gigli) in one of the finest recordings of Madama Butterfly.
More useful were sessions with Madame Mansouri, a physiotherapist, who was indefatigable in her attempts to get Kit to sit up unaided, to roll over and to crawl.
'As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff.' Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Ah!" replied Bronze, shrugging up his shoulders, "dere be always in dese places people who love to give demselves ridicules: — for exemple; il ya la belle Madame Macfarlane, vid one epaule a half foot higher dan de odre, and who tink all men vill like her better dan her pretty belle fille. The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale
Do you have an account at this store/with us, madam?
Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism. The Last Empress
His tales of corrupt politicians, red-light madams and greedy businessmen may have offended civic leaders in 1951, but the book became an instant classic and is still in print today.
Madam turned her beady, hawk-like gaze on the woman, waiting for her to speak.
Le linge qui séche but not Le singe qui léche Madame: votre mouton bouille not Madame: votre bouton mouille Sex in the drawing room: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
It was Madame in the doorway, loudly disputing the accuracy of the information and the need for a power cut.
Among his works are the celebrated five franc piece known as "à l'Hercule," the five centime and one decime pieces, on which the head of Liberty is the profile of Madame Récamier, and seven medals relating to America: John Paul Jones, General Morgan, General Greene, The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
When he saw that Madame Delmare was obliged to make an effort to listen to him, he held his peace, and naught could be heard save the innumerable little voices whispering in the burning wood, the plaintive song of the log as it becomes heated and swells, the crackling of the bark as it curls before breaking, and the faint phosphorescent explosions of the alburnum, which emits a bluish flame. Indiana
I answered that he would find the sum in the hands of Madame d'Urfe's solicitor, and that he could receive it as soon as he had given replevy on the bail at the Fort l'Eveque. The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille. Travel
Madame Noire had the chargrilled sirloin steak, which came with fried onions and a spicy peppercorn sauce.
Dutocq had seen with great uneasiness what he called the liaison of des Lupeaulx with Madame Rabourdin, and his silent wrath on the subject was accumulating. Bureaucracy
That would be Morpho cypris, " Madame Goody chimed in cheerfully. Another Roadside Attraction
I was lifted directly into Madame de Vs Coterieand she put off the epocha of deism for two years. 63. Paris
And believe me, Madam (though I do not presume to add those expressions which might rather heighten the offence I fear this letter will give you), that the assurance of your happiness in the choice you have made, and which now no obstacle can oppose, will considerably -- lighten the pain with which I shall long recall my ungracious reply to your communication. Lucretia — Volume 03
As Leporello tells Elvira in his aria "Madamina, il catalogo e questo," Giovanni is a true democrat, wooing and seducing women of all classes, shapes and sizes. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
A plaster cast of Madame Fournier stood in the artist's studio.
This was drunk in a kind of cubby-hole off the night nursery, the three colonials having failed to fraternise with the posse of English servants who had been taken over with the house: a set of prim, starched pokers these, ran the verdict; and deceitful, too, with their “sirs” and “madams” to your face, and all the sneery backbiting that went on below-stairs. The Way Home
Furthermore, Madam Clarkson should be commended for keeping the office above politics.
Madame de Maintenon's difficulty (and with fewer resources to meet it) of trying to amuse a man who was not amusable. Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
With patience Madam I endured all before, but now (me thinkes) he proceedeth too farre, which is not any way to be suffered; and therefore I intended to let you know it, that you may perceive, how wel you are rewarded for the faithfull and loyall love you beare him, and for which, I was even at deaths dore. The Decameron
I saw your desire of saving Madame Duval, and scarce could I refrain giving the brutal Captain my real opinion of his savage conduct; but I am unwilling to quarrel with him, lest I should be denied entrance into a house which you inhabit; I have been endeavouring to prevail with him to give up his absurd new scheme, but I find him impenetrable: – I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore; – and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT

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