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Meanings of old gentlewoman in English

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Usage of old gentlewoman in English
1
The inutility of her best efforts, however, palsied the poor old gentlewoman.
The House of the Seven Gables
2
The patient was dismayed, and the old gentlewoman concerned and perplexed.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02
3
But why is that compliment to that old gentlewoman intruded there?
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
4
But I think you must not ask me how I like the old gentlewoman.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4
5
About this time the old gentlewoman fell ill of an odd sort of a distemper.
The History of John Bull
6
This set the old gentlewoman a-laughing at me, as you may be sure it would.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
7
The old gentlewoman, passive as a child and half paralyzed with fear, sat down again.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
8
She is a comely old gentlewoman, and very proud of having seen Madame de Maintenon.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
9
The grandmother was a fine old gentlewoman "of the old school," as the phrase is.
The Brownies and Other Tales
10
Laughing so shrilly that all the market-place could hear her, the weird old gentlewoman took her departure.
The Scarlet Letter
11
Mrs M'Sweyn was a decent old gentlewoman.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
12
It is wonderful what an extension of vitality is given to an old gentlewoman in this condition!
An Old Town By the Sea
13
The old gentlewoman (fury made her not handsome) could scarcely be reconciled by all my fine words.
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
14
The good old gentlewoman was not so simple as to go into his projects-shebegan to smell a rat.
The History of John Bull
15
Now there was no lord of that manor, but only an old gentlewoman of very good breeding and address.
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
16
The old gentlewoman abridged the ceremony by leading out Crabshaw with one hand, and locking up Crowe with the other.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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