Word: gentlewoman
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...Wasps-Nest. Deep in a lonely forest stood a haunted house. No one ever came near it until the night this play was produced. Then there came two train bandits, a southern gentlewoman, a low comedy Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over...
...Author, aged 65, lives in distinguished privacy on the Riviera. She published her first book in the last year of the 19th Century. Descended from Manhattan patricians (Rhinelanders, Schermer-horns), she has always been seriously a gentlewoman. Art and animals are her least intellectual diversions. Henry James was her most important friend...
Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...
...proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave him a carnation. He wanted to pin it to his father's lapel, but Jacob told him to take it home, press it. When the boy left the store, he discovered that he had lost the flower. How meet his father...
...face of grey granite. This face quivers. This grey face is the lustreless eyes [sic] of a gentlewoman whose tears must all be running inward...