She was the dowager of the ancient noblesse.

" "Come to grief," put in Lady Bateson, a dowager in a crimson cap with military feathers.

Sensible that the only circumstance which could give him security was to gain the confidence of the Yorkists, Richard paid court to the Queen Dowager with such art and address, made such earnest protestations of his sincere good-will and friendship, that this Princess ventured to put herself and her daughters into the hands of the tyrant.

Why did he not Marry? 'Dowagers as Plenty as Flounders.

I have seen dowagers at watering-places in a fever of anxiety about their rank and their consequence!

The journey of the Princess Dowager to Germany is indeed an extraordinary circumstance, but besides its being a week old, as I do not know the motives, I have nothing to say upon it.

As if he were a Martian newly come to earth, he sees things separated from their environment, tradition, precedentthe dowager without her money, the politician without his power, the sage without his poverty; he sees men and women for himself.

It was a month to a day when the steamboat came puffing and blowing up to the wharf again, like a stout dowager after too long a walk; and the same scene of confusion was enacted, as it had been enacted twelve times a year, at almost the same wharf for twenty years; and the same calm, a death calmness by contrast, followed as usual the next morning.

ROTHES, Countess Dowagers of, ii. 136, n. 3. ROTHES, Lady, Bennet Langton's wife, ii. 77, n. 1, 142, 146; iii. 104, 368; iv. 8, n. 3, 146, 159, n. 3, 240.

Of the medley of characters in the poem, poet-princes in disguise at the college, violet-hooded lady principals, "With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair," it is Lady Psyche's child that is the true, effective heroine of the story, as Dr. Dawson aptly points out.

Richard, that he might make atonement to one parent for his breach of duty to the other, immediately sent orders for releasing the queen- dowager from the confinement in which she had long been detained; and he intrusted her with the government of England till his arrival in that kingdom.

"Das war aber zu schon!" sighed a dowager near me.

John punished himself as much as the dowager on these occasions; but the smiling face of Grace, with her hand frankly placed in his own at his return, never failed to do away the unpleasant sensations created by her mother's care.