"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.

To him Tahmineh gave her only joy, And bade him shield the bold adventurous boy: "But, in the dreadful strife, should danger rise, Present my child before his father's eyes!

Goldsmith could sometimes take adventurous liberties with him, and escape unpunished.

He found a number of equally adventurous gentlemen, including the Surveyor-General of Montana, Mr. Washburn, after whom the expedition was generally known.

"You are young and adventurous, but you'll find it prudent, so to speak, to accept your environment and submit.

The face, eager, laughing, passionate, adventurous, was the face of Minnie Munn.

Fair exchange, for, if mine were the riper creed, hers was the more vivid and adventurous.

But the Curé of Althausen had not undertaken this adventurous expedition to abandon it at the moment when he was attaining his object.

The directors of the bank were then pursuing what may without unfairness be called an adventurous policy, and, in response to the urgent entreaties and glowing exhortations of the President, they had decided on establishing a branch at Whittingham.

I have heard her say, that, going up to London to bring out that play, she saw her old friend, then Mrs. Franklin, working a flag for the captain's ship, then about to sail on one of his early adventurous voyages.

He was of an adventurous and somewhat restless disposition, and, at the time of the threatened invasion by Napoleon, joined a local Volunteer corps.

Brigham was to have been one of my adventurous party at Potosi, in the fall of 1818, but the fever and ague laid violent hands on him.

A wild horse is to the tame what the adventurous traveller is to the quiet man who builds a home, and from the grey mare and Alcatraz the six were learning many things.

And then there was Cuba for one's adventurous sense.

" It was signed: "One who loves to lead adventurous souls into dangerous paths.

that is to say, many many unknown numbers of miles out at sea, right opposite to the Castle, there was a Fairy Island, and it was the Fairies who kept the sea so rough all round them, for fear some adventurous sailor should approach the island, or get near enough to fish up some of the pearls and precious stones they kept in a crystal palace underneath the water.

A few short years more, and many of you, like your deceased brethren, will bend your proud heads level with the dust, and those giant limbs, which now kiss the summer sun and dare the winter's blast, will feed that insatiate meteor's stomach, or crackle beneath some adventurous pioneer's soup-kettle.

The ship, loosed from her moorings, spread her canvas, and plunged forward on her adventurous voyage.

Here our three adventurous travellers were unexpectedly caught in a trap.

Every winter Mr. Whiston talked of new places which he and Rose would visit when the holidays came round; every summer he shrank from the thought of adventurous novelty, and ended by proposing a return to the same western seaside-town, to the familiar lodgings.

Thus: "Neither of them had that bold and adventurous ambition which makes a conqueror an hero.

Cinta had doubtless taken them from her aunt's room, for she had been admiring this adventurous cousin long before knowing him.

He considered his nephew the greatest of the Ferraguts, a true man of the sea like his ancestors but with the title of captain;an adventurous rover over all oceans, as he had been, but with a place on the bridge, invested with the absolute command that responsibility and danger confer.

Adventurous religion, and other essays.

The treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, too, marked the termination of those wars of ambition and conquest which the Kings of France had waged beyond the Alps an injudicious policy, which, for four reigns, had crippled and wasted the resources of France in adventurous expeditions, beyond the limits of her geographical position and her natural and permanent interests.

But on the ground-floor of that part was the laundry, used in turn by every household in the entire house and regarded by the boy as a far-off, adventurous place until he had been allowed to visit it a couple of times.