13 examples of chaperonage in sentences

She was taken away from the easy-going, sound-sleeping councilor whose chaperonage she had succeeded in eluding, and placed in a tent with Mrs. Grayson herself.

Mr. Upjohn, too, kept there valiantly for a time, then his round, ample figure and jolly face disappeared somewhere, under chaperonage of Mrs. Bruce, his latest admiration.

The elder girls were domesticated and acquainted now at Outledge; there were several matronly ladies with whom the whole party was sufficiently associated in daily intercourse for all the air of chaperonage that might be needed; and one assistant pupil, whom, to be sure, the young ladies themselves counted as a most convenient nonentity, was left in nominal charge.

Had it been disclosed to her that Wilbur Cowan, under the chaperonage of EdwardSpikeBrennon, 133 lbs., ringside, had become an addict of these affairs, a determined and efficient exponent of the weird new steps"a good thing for y'r footwork," Spike had saidshe would have considered he had plumbed the profoundest depths of social ignominy.

'Tis now three years since Mademoiselle Adrienne d'Azay finished her studies at the Couvent de Marmoutier ('tis an old abbaye on the banks of the Loire, Calvert, near Azay-le-Roi, the château of the d'Azay family) and came to dazzle all Paris under the chaperonage of her great aunt, the old Duchesse d'Azay.

Wherever separation of the sexes and chaperonage prevails, the only kind of amorous infatuation possible, as a rule, is sensual passion, fiery but transient.

For three weeks we sat on copiously chaired and carpeted decks, carefully isolated from everything that had anything to do with Egypt, under chaperonage of a properly orientalised dragoman.

So Joanna now waited in the living-roomrather reluctantly, it must be admitted, for it seemed to her that this was carrying chaperonage unnecessarily far.

Proper chaperonage was required and the hall closed at midnight.

He could exchange glances of much secret understanding with Flora, and he could snatch a hasty kiss, now and then, and when the chaperonage was too unremitting she could slip into his hands a hurriedly penciled note, filled with important nothings.

Beginning with the saloon dance hall, unquestionably the most brutally evil type, and ending with the dancing academy, where some pretense of chaperonage is made, the dance hall is a vicious institution.

The dance hall, with its curse of drink, its lack of chaperonage and of reasonable discipline, helps this along its downward course.

Accompanied by his wife, he was motored and wined and dined through the conquered country under the watchful chaperonage of German officers.

13 examples of  chaperonage  in sentences