12 Metaphors for hortense

Josephine was now, at least, "Madame" Bonaparte, and Hortense was "Mademoiselle" Beauharnais.

When she saw him for the last time, Hortense was about thirteen years of age.

BUCK'ET (Mr.), a shrewd detective officer who cleverly discovers that Hortense, the French maid-servant of lady Dedlock, was the murderer of Mr. Tulkinghorn, and not lady Dedlock, who was charged with the deed by Hortense.C. Dickens, Bleak House (1853).

" Hortense was the daughter of the Viscount de Beauharnais, who, against the wishes of his relatives, married the beautiful Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, a young Creole lady of Martinique.

At this moment, Hortense was a Frenchwoman, a Parisian only, and, forgetting every thing else, all her grief and sufferings, she sought only to do the honors of Paris for her son.

Mademoiselle Hortense, it appeared, was the enigma of the third story.

And Hortense was not only the protectress of art and science, but also the mother of the poor, the ministering angel of the unhappy, whose tears she dried, and whose misery she alleviatedand this royal pair, though adored and blessed by their subjects, could not find within their palaces the least reflection of the happiness they so well knew how to confer upon others without its walls.

As we have said, Hortense was the embodied remembrance of the empire, and it was therefore determined that she should be destroyed.

When they, however, demanded that the entire palace should be vacated, the wife of the janitor, the only person whom Hortense had taken into her confidence, informed them that Queen Hortense, who was ill and unhappy, was the sole occupant of these reserved rooms.

Arenenberg was now her worldArenenberg, in which her last and only happiness, her son, the heir of the imperial name, lived with herArenenberg, which was as a temple of memory, in which Hortense was the pious and believing priestess.

Hortense, as has before been said, was now again the grand point of attraction at court, and, at Napoleon's command, the public officials now also hastened to solicit the honor of an audience, in order to pay their respects to the emperor's step-daughter.

Armande's heart had already been caught while Marie was reciting her matins and vespers: He had lost it utterly to her beautiful sister, Hortense; he vowed that he would marry no other, and that if Hortense could not be his wife he would prefer to die.

12 Metaphors for  hortense