Which preposition to use with woman
One night at a party in the Faubourg St. Germain, I saw a well-known fashionable woman of the extreme Legitimist party turn her back on the Comtesse de Paris.
Some of the dresses were funny, but there was nothing eccentricno women in hats, carrying babies in their arms, such as one used to see in the old days in America at the President's reception at the White House, Washingtonsome very simple black silk dresses hardly lowand of course a great many pretty women very well dressed.
I remember a pretty Roumanian woman with a white veil spangled with gold, most effective.
Mr. P. does not wish to sweep his hand rudely o'er the tender chords of any heart, but he wants it known that he is neither to be snapped up by sharks in the sea, or by young women at watering places.
FIRST: RECONSTRUCTION The subject that is being carefully considered by many thinking men and women to-day is this: the place and prospects of the Christian Church.
The artists were drawn up in two rows, the women on one side, the men on the other, all eyes of course fixed upon madame la ministresse.
"It is not easy to take the life of one of my caste in India; and, by dint of the exertions of my friends, in spite of the influence of Shunah Shoo, and the family of the Omrah, I was pardoned, on condition of doing penance, which was, that I should never live in a country in which the religion of Brahmin prevailed, and should not again look at, or converse with, any woman for two minutes together.
'I never saw such a woman as you!
A woman from a neighboring village came to the house of Chief Okurike's wives.
In so far as one can generalise (always a dangerous thing to do) it may be said that women like best a kind, clever man who can be always trusted; and occasionally (if necessary) deceived.
There lived in the early days of the nineteenth century a woman by the name of Lady Morgan, who was the author of several novels and books of travel.
To them a woman acting as a messenger, an elevator operator, or a trolley conductor, was anathema, and the tempting of women into these employments seemed but the latest vicious trick of the capitalist.
The audience at the Society Theatre is a special one; as at the plays in which the favourite actor-managers and jeunes premiers perform there are always far more women than men, at this theatre there are always far more men than women.
Where are they from, and whither goingthese women without beauty, who walk the streets without handkerchiefs, but blubbering with too much or too little drink?
Germans, want of tact characteristic; position of women among; advance in comfort and elegance among.
But support and encouragement came from our own authorities, and like many other thousands of English women under orders, I could only go and do my best.
I told the fat woman about the dust on her telescope valises, and I rubbed it off, and gave her feet a dose of anise seed that ought to have paralyzed a pack of hounds.
"You go first, Mrs. Gilligan," cried Violet, pushing that woman before her.
Their individual value, as they go out into the world, is to set right values on social customs and decrees; to establish the law of freedom in the home; to lead men and women out of the thraldom of ignorance, vulgarity, hearsay, and "style," into simplicity of living and a sane scale of household expense.
Not only as workers but as voters, the war has called women over the top.
The little Pilgrim was glad to be by the side of a woman after talking with so many men, and she put out her hand and touched the cloak that this lady wore, and which was white and of the most beautiful texture, with gold threads woven in it, or something that looked like gold.
I have never punished a woman during the whole time, or even proposed a punishment to them.
joined him in a deep bass voice of musical relish: "And waft 'em to a far countree!" Oliver Giles, John Pitcher the dairyman, the parish-clerk, the engaged man of fifty, the row of young women against the wall, seemed lost in thought not of the gayest kind.
"If ever you find a man unreasonable, stubborn and foolish, you'll always find a woman behind it!
You have given me an ill opinion of all mankind; of yourself in particular: and withal so bad a one of myself, that I shall never be able to look up, having utterly and for ever lost all that self-complacency, and conscious pride, which are so necessary to carry a woman through this life with tolerable satisfaction to herself.