How To Use Proprietress In A Sentence
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Whether the proprietress of Elle Escorts for Discriminating Gentlemen was sincere in her assurance was unknown.
O: A Presidential Novel
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He alone among the guests at a country inn does not vie for the affections of the proprietress Mirandolina, thus setting in motion her plan to humble him by seducing him.
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On an errand to the school to deliver a packet of hand-bills advertising the wax-works, Nell meets up with the school proprietress and her teachers and pupils, lined up, books open, about to take their morning walk.
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The solid seems much more lustrous than the hand-painted, but the proprietress said all I had to do was treat the hand-painted skeins roughly and they would begin to glow.
Archive 2009-03-01
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There she lives under the watchful eye of the proprietress, the geisha house ‘mother’, even stricter than her own mother.
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In the village he only seemed to know the proprietress.
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A film crew was there filming a tongue-in-cheek interview with the proprietress of the place.
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Maigret called the proprietress, paid for the two drinks.
Maigret and the Reluctant Witness
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Whoever it was who had arrived, the proprietress had not been there to meet her.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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The proprietress Claude, a woman with all the graces, originally from Tours, and her solid bricoleur husband, recommended a lovely place to swim no more than ten kilometers ‘thattaway’.
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Perhaps in their younger days the grumpy old men had a talent for fast-paced interviewage, but surely not the knack for tag-team existentialism, and Matthau was never told off by a strict proprietress for climbing on a café counter.
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The next morning, the proprietress of the B & B, waggling an admonishing finger as only middle-aged Welsh matrons can, suggested that we should find alternate lodging.
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The next morning, the proprietress of the B & B, waggling an admonishing finger as only middle-aged Welsh matrons can, suggested that we should find alternate lodging.
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In fact, if the truth were told, his long courtship of Inger was as much a courtship of the business as of its proprietress.
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I met the proprietress of the establishment on a street as I looked at another pension, and she was all smiles and pigeon English as she led me to a dark alley.
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The one she had addressed as "daughter" was a careworn woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.
COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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The proprietress was a crazy old woman never seen without a snifter of brandy in her hand.
Archive 2006-03-01
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The proprietress was alone in the bar.
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The proprietress is intrigued to see someone with a white face - a foreigner.
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Many were greeted with a kiss on both cheeks by our waitress - who, we presumed, was probably also proprietress or manageress.
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The proprietress is a little tight, quite relaxed, and slightly philosophical, leaning against Marlowe, who sits on a stack of Britannicas beside her, watching the window.
Archive 2008-05-01
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On the proprietress's recommendation, I complemented the puffer with a plate of fried tofu, which was also very good.
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The proprietress ignored him, and swept on into the house.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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The proprietress smiled a steely smile, and ushered them into the car.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Maybe I'll find my pension by happening across its grinning proprietress as she wanders the streets trying to snare lost holidaymakers in the morning.
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To add to the authenticity, a massive family portrait from 1970s Saigon shows our proprietress at age eight.
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Having received directions from the proprietress, Mrs. Marshall, that morning they made their way to Flinders Street Station to find a train which would take them the seven or eight miles to the bayside suburb of Brighton.
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Bob Koke, who was just back from Singapore, took the opportunity to ask about the notorious Bali hotel proprietress turned radio propagandist Surabaya Sue, who seemed to be working as a spokesperson for his administration.
A Covert Affair
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`Nevertheless," said Stein, turning to the proprietress, `these intimacies occurred with someone.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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I give the place 9 points out of a possible ten, with a mandatory point deducted when the proprietress failed to address me as ‘hon.’
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The next morning, the proprietress of the B & B, waggling an admonishing finger as only middle-aged Welsh matrons can, suggested that we should find alternate lodging.
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All except for the tavern’s proprietress, that is, who was calling to the ferryman, Wake up.
LADY of SKYE
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Visitors send $20,000 to the youthful proprietress to help defray her credit card bills.
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Also arrested in an operation, codenamed " Fire Balloon " which started last Friday, were a director of a company, a proprietress of an estate agency, six flat owners, and 30 suspected bogus tenants.
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There is too great a contradiction between the interests of the woman worker and the lady proprietress, between the servant and her mistress…
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There were two customers in the salon when the incident happened shortly before 3.30, but they and the proprietress dashed to safety into the street.
