In looking at the class of counsel, and power, and wealth, and at the matronage of the land, amidst all the prudence and all the triviality, one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ❋ Unknown (2006)
We were both on the point of retiring; when the Duchess, after a brief consultation with some of the surrounding matronage, made a sign to Mariamne to approach. ❋ Various (N/A)
It spoke volumes for the purity and simplicity of the society that for years it had gone on thus, and no necessity for any matronage had been felt. ❋ T. C. DeLeon (N/A)
Dolly has held her place among the matronage of Boston; her sons have graduated at Harvard, and her daughters have recalled to memory the bright eyes and youthful bloom of their mother. ❋ Unknown (1878)
Dolly had been committed for the day to the charge of Nabby, who should see that she took no harm, and engineer for her the best chances of seeing all that went on; while Mrs. Cushing, relieved of this care, took her seat quietly among the matronage of Poganuc and waited for the entrance of the procession. ❋ Unknown (1878)
She was the pride of the matronage of Sparta, because of all our women Alithea was the most unsexed. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
It was all these, no doubt, that had so strengthened and enriched the love at first sight, which had shaken the equilibrium of his positive existence; and yet he now viewed all these as subordinate to the one image of mild decorous matronage into which wedlock was to transform the child of genius, longing for angel wings and unlimited space. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
She was one of those whom, encountered in the streets or in society, one might guess to be married, -- probably a young bride; for thus seen there was about her an air of dignity and of self-possession which suits well with the ideal of chaste youthful matronage; and in the expression of the face there was a pensive thoughtfulness beyond her years. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
To devote my life to you, to make you partaker of my ambition, my career, to raise you to the highest eminence in the matronage of England, to transfer pride from myself to you, to love and to honour and to prize you, -- all this will be my boast; and all this will win love for me at last. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Can a politician, a statesman, slight the feelings and the convictions of the whole matronage of his country? ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
The story Ms. Vida has created - of a 29-year-old woman's unexpected journey to north Finland and into her own past - is so quirky and original in its setting and twists, yet completely believable in its main character's superhuman attempt to connect with her matronage and sense of humanity. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Still, Layton and Dion have been going after one another hammer and tongs, and with May having caught the attention of the matronage and thus having a greater shot at poaching votes from the other leftist parties, some habitually Liberal ridings may be split thinly enough to allow Harper's pale blue horse past posts it wouldn't have otherwise attained. www. ricdolphin.com ❋ Unknown (2008)
And, of course, you guys, who make all of this possible with your kind patronage and / or matronage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When faced with rumors that Trig’s matronage might be closer to Bristol than Sarah, the governor of Alaska/newly tapped GOP vice-presidential pick did the only logical thing to defend her title: she outted Bristol as nearing the end of her own second trimester. ❋ Unknown (2008)
