Newcome, Bart., even to that of the celebrated jestress! ❋ Unknown (2006)
"Yes," answered the _plaisant_, apparently speaking to the jestress, whose face wore a puzzled expression. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
That I was much puzzled when I met you and -- our erstwhile jestress -- matters not. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
As it minimized their risk from this latter class, the young girl was content to wear the cap of the jestress, piquantly perched upon her dark curls, thereby suggesting an indefinable affinity with vagrancy and the itinerant fraternity. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
The monarch bent over the countess; Diane and the dauphin exchanged messages with their eyes; Catharine smiled on Villot; the princess listened to her betrothed; and the jestress alone of all the ladies leaned back and sang, heart-free. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Had not Jeanne, queen of Charles I, possessed her jestress, Artaude de Puy, ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Before him floated the light figure of the jestress, moving faster and ever faster down the dark corridor, now veering to the right or left, again ascending or descending well-worn steps; a tortuous route through the heart of the ancient fortress, whose mystery seemed dread and covert as that of a prison house. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Thoughtfully the duke continued to observe the jestress. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
"To think the jestress, Jacqueline, should turn out the daughter of that traitor, the Constable of Dubrois," she observed, keenly. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Standing at the door of his inn, the landlord dropped his jaw in amazement as his glance fell upon the jestress and her companion behind the great emperor himself. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Turning into her own tent, the jestress lighted the wick of a silver lamp; a faint aroma of perfume swept through the air. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
"So it was a jestress, not a princess you found, thou dreamer," he said, half-ironically. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
The fool reined the horse, which for some time had been moving painfully, and at that abrupt cessation of motion the jestress looked up with a start. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Disturbed by the tumult and the loud voices, the jestress had left her room to learn the cause of the unusual din, and now, with her dark hair a cloud around her, stood gazing fearfully over the fool's shoulder. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Fainter sounded the warning of the jestress in the ears of the duke's fool; so faint it became but a weak admonition. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
If the casual glance saw first the blond head, the creamy arms and sunny blue eyes of the princess, it was apt to linger with almost a start of wonder upon the striking figure of the jestress, a nocturnal touch in a pearly picture. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
She held the branch to her face and he glanced at her covertly; she was all jestress again. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
Her story recurred to him; she was no longer a nameless jestress; an immeasurable distance separated a mere _plaisant_ from the survivor of one of the noblest, if most unfortunate, families of France. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
The narrator paused and furtively surveyed the jestress. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
In the fading light, fool and jestress drew rein, and, moved by the same purpose, looked about them. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)
