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Milady   Listen
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Milady  n.  Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman.






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"Milady" Quotes from Famous Books



... milady—there can be only one boss on this station. And now you'll excuse me if I act ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... cause of this duello, I may well say teterrima causa. His lordship's own sister Milady Clarik was in question; she being, I fear me, rather akin in her way of life to Jean Drocheils (whom your lordship may remember; for, the Baillies expulsing her from Aberdeen, she migrated to St. Andrews, ...
— Old Friends - Essays in Epistolary Parody • Andrew Lang

... was made by Dr. Martin Frederick of the city medical staff, Cleveland, Ohio: "Milady's dimples are defects caused by faulty construction or weaknesses of the cheek muscles." Interview several ladies who have dimples and ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

... cannot return? Listen! There are others in this family who are similarly unhappy. The governess of the young Milor has encountered me in my walks, and looked at me in a way which can bear but one interpretation. And Milady herself, who is of mature age, but who has oriental blood, has once or twice addressed compliments to the lonely artist which can admit of no mistake. I avoid the household, I seek solitude, I undergo my destiny. I can marry but one, and am resolved it shall ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... city parks, famished, benumbed and mute, Two hundred thousand refugees, homeless and destitute! Upon the hard, cold ground they crouch—the wrecks of Pomp and Pride; Milady and the city waifs are huddled side by side. And there, 'neath shelter rude and frail, we hear the new-born infants wail, While' nations read the tragic ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various



Words linked to "Milady" :   noblewoman



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