"Of course this adventuress, this Nelly Lebrun, plays hand in glove with Lord Nick and his troupe; unquestionably she shares her spoils, so that nine-tenths of the revenue from the mines is really flowing back through the hands of Lord Nick and Jack Landis has become a silly figurehead.

He must be brought back to us and shown his folly both as regards the adventuress and Lord Nick; for so long as Nelly has a hold on him, just so long Lord Nick will have his hand in Jack's pocket.

"When he is through in comes the soubrette, formerly a lady boilermaker in Canarsie, but now disguised as an adventuress, in search of the missing papers.

My father told me she was an adventuress.

She was an adventuress, a Cyprian, a seductress attempting to snare Peter in the brazen web of her comeliness.

Princess of the underbrush, queen of the glade, I am pleased to wear the yellow locks of an adventuress.

The adventuress could not leave the Senator and his daughters alone, though she knew it must be Peabody calling her.

Before the publication of "The Dunciad" the adventuress in letters had enjoyed a large share of popularity.

" "Rash and precipitate adventuress!

"I'm just plain adventuress enough to love the fight of it," she admitted to herself as she approached the office she had selected for her first try.

But I have been unfortunate again; I wanted the part of the adventuress.

Hubert had begun to drowse in his chair; but he had promised to rewrite the young girl's part, Ford having definitely refused to intrust Rose with the part of the adventuress.

Ah, if he had cast you for the adventuress, how you would have played it!...

But the little girl was thinking of certain effects which she would have made, and which the actress who had played the adventuress had failed to make.

With that in view he fixed his attention on the woman's past; it was said that despite her beauty, her aristrocratic manners, the brilliancy of mind with which she had dazzled hima poor country boyshe was only an adventuress who had made her way over half the globe from one pair of arms to another.

Was a woman to educate a son in the soundest and most virtuous principles, make a somebody of him, and then have an adventuress come along, a thousand times worse than a common street-woman, and carry him off, as nice as you please, in her filthy hands?

The gentle quiver of Nature under the kiss of Springtime, the intense perfume of the flower that is the emblem of virginity, had transfigured that madcap singer, that adventuress of a career so checkered, who had been violently thrust into her first experience of passion, and now for the first time felt the blush of modesty in the arms of a man.

Have her appear like an adventuress, drawing Rafael on, tearing him from his mother's arms after crazing him with love?

She didn't like those scenes she had as Lady Amaranth the adventuress with Henderson.

That's a first-class expression for an adventuress.

" is what I call an adventuress," Miss Fowler summed up.

"Puzzle, Kitty: find the Adventuress.

The "heavy lead" or "adventuress" type, generally magnificently attired, gets about £3 a week.

LAMOTTE, COUNTESS DE, born at Fontelle, in Aube, who came up to Paris a shifty adventuress and played a chief part in the notorious affair of the DIAMOND NECKLACE (q. v.), which involved so many high people in France in deep disgrace (1756-1791).

She should have plenty of money; the purse of an adventuress was a greedy one, but he would do his best to fill it, nor once reproach her with extravaganceof which fault, let me remark, she had never yet shown a sign.