And what a melodramatic cinema of thrills and shivers, villains and heroes, heroines and adventuresses have they not unfolded.

I guess after the procession of adventuresses that have trailed through this office in the last twenty years I'm reasonably safe.

"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.

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.

It is the infamous Madame de la Motte, chief of adventuresses, and it was in that secluded grove that her tool, Cardinal de Rohan, had his pretended interview with the Queen.

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.

The pioneer romancières were commonly adventuresses in life as in letters, needy widows like Mrs. Behn, Mme de Gomez, and Mrs. Mary Davys, or cast mistresses like Mme de Villedieu, Mile de La Force, and Mrs. Manley, who cultivated Minerva when Venus proved unpropitious.

'I shall drop her,' said Georgie, 'and go back to poor old Seraphine, who is worth a cartload of such Irish adventuresses.'

" "Rash and precipitate adventuress!

From the first he had allowed his reading to colour his impressions of life, and had obediently lived in a world of blacks and whites, of heroes and heroines, of villains and adventuresses, until the grateful discovery of the realistic school of fiction permitted him to believe that men and women were for the most part neither good nor bad, but tabby.

"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.

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

Mrs. Skewton, married at the age of 18 to Colonel Granger of "Ours," who died within two years, when Edith and her mother lived as adventuresses.

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?

So it is easy to imagine the horror of such relatives as I have hinted at when our two beautiful adventuresses returned from Paris, and appeared before their families in great Spanish cloaks, picturesque, coquettish enough you may be sure, veiling with some show of discretion those hideous compromises with trousers invented and worn by the strong-minded Mrs. Bloomer, and wearing their hair after the manner of Florentine boys.

Helen of Troy and Dido of Carthage pale into common adventuresses when placed beside the quiet courage and utter self-abnegation of such Indian heroines as Sita and Damayanti.

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

"Puzzle, Kitty: find the Adventuress.

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.