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dowager
1. cap it all, the frail old dowager was summoned to have words with
2. during the continuance of the minority, devolved to the superior, without any other charge besides the maintenance of the minor, and the payment of the widow's dower, when there happened to be a dowager upon the land
3. with the Empress Dowager
4. Hunter, as master of the house, sat at the head of the table; his mother, styling herself as Astley Manor’s own dowager empress, sat opposite him at the far end of the slightly too long table
5. Some day, when we are both very old, perhaps you will get a few hours' leave from the dowager duchess you'll marry when you are forty, and will come and look at my pigs and my garden and sit with me before the fire and talk over our long friendship and all the long days of our life
6. “My friends, the moment we have waited for is at hand,” Dowager Empress Ilythia began
7. The delegation rose and gave Isabel a standing ovation as the Dowager Empress gestured for her to come forward and speak to the crowd
8. “However, as the Dowager Empress said, with the additions of the fleet and our newest ally, we will show our enemies that we are a force to be reckoned with!”
9. Isabel looked over at the Dowager Empress and prince who both nodded their consent
10. Gasps and murmurs rose up amongst the delegation, and in the corner a red faced Dowager Empress was giving the prince the third degree, while Lennox roared with laughter
11. After the uproar she caused and her fight with the Dowager Empress, she no longer felt she was welcome in the palace
12. Then there was the reaction of his mother, such vehemence! The wise and gentle Dowager Empress turned on her in a way that reminded her of the manticore
13. Back at the Crystal Palace, Isabel, Dowager Empress Ilythia and the rest of the Alliance signed a treaty that gave the people of the Shumkarja Outlands great power in the land, not that they wanted it of course
14. Around the new king lurked his mother, now the Dowager
15. Occasionally, but seldom, he played at whist, and then care was taken to select partners worthy of him—sometimes they were ambassadors, sometimes archbishops, or sometimes a prince, or a president, or some dowager duchess
16. Worse, Rebkah Rahskail, the Dowager Countess of Swayle, had arranged a betrothal between her son, Wahlys, and the younger sister of Sir Bryndyn Crawfyrd, Duke of Holy Tree
17. Karyl Rydmakyr, the Dowager Countess of Cheshyr, was in her mid seventies
18. This left behind the curious companions of solitary clerks and traveling salesmen along with the occasional former dowager who, having exhausted or squandered the money from selling the family silver, was waiting out genteel poverty in one rented room with a three-bar electric fire
19. Each school—Lower and Upper—must have had its own Sturmbannführer, under the supreme command of that jolly fat dowager whose company he wished for now
20. "Where can all the strength of those medicines go, my dear?" said the mild but stately dowager, turning to Mrs
21. The affable dowager declared herself delighted with this opportunity of making Mr
22. "No, to be sure not," said the Dowager Lady Chettam, with stately
23. Cadwallader, who had some pleasure in startling her good friend the Dowager
24. Cadwallader, the Dowager Lady Chettam, and Celia were sometimes seated on garden-chairs, sometimes walking to meet little Arthur, who was being drawn in his chariot, and, as became the infantine Bouddha, was sheltered by his sacred umbrella with handsome silken fringe
25. "My dear Celia," said the Dowager, "James's title is worth far more than any new earldom
26. There was standing room only in Connie Kerr’s little flat, but she had the air of a Nob Hill dowager holding a tea party
27. At the time, the Chinese government was led by the Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi, who loathed foreigners, especially missionaries
28. China was still a medieval-style empire, with a child emperor and all power in the hands of his grandmother, the dowager empress Tz’u-hsi
29. ‘I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a keen interest in the
30. Marya Ignatevna Peronskaya, a thin and shallow maid of honor at the court of the Dowager Empress, who was a friend and relation of the countess and piloted the provincial Rostovs in Petersburg high society, was to accompany them to the ball
31. In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Empress
32. One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"—"Oh! oh! that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop
33. "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for
34. When Melodía, still fuming, came back with her javelin, her retinue had found a new topic: speculating about a certain dowager countess at court and a handsome page
35. Somehow Dowager Duchess Margrethe could always twist whatever he did, however triumphant, into failure of some kind
36. The Dowager might be between forty and fifty: her shape was still fine; her hair (by candle-light at least) still black; her teeth, too, were still apparently perfect
37. proceeding,” chimed in the Dowager Ingram
38. “It is not worth complaining about; but to be sure the poor old dowager could not have died at a worse time; and it is impossible to help wishing that the news could have been suppressed for just the three days we wanted
39. I give her credit for promoting his going dutifully down to Bath, to fetch his mother; but how will she and the dowager agree in one house? Henry is not at hand, so I have nothing to say from him
40. "It is not worth complaining about; but to be sure the poor old dowager could not have died at a worse time; and it is impossible to help wishing that the news could have been suppressed for just the three days we wanted
41. Rushworth was quite ready to retire, and make way for the fortunate young woman whom her dear son had selected; and very early in November removed herself, her maid, her footman, and her chariot, with true dowager propriety, to Bath, there to parade over the wonders of Sotherton in her evening parties; enjoying them as thoroughly, perhaps, in the animation of a card-table, as she had ever done on the spot; and before the middle of the same month the ceremony had taken place which gave Sotherton another mistress
42. Márya Ignátevna Perónskaya, a thin and shallow maid of honor at the court of the Dowager Empress, who was a friend and relation of the countess and piloted the provincial Rostóvs in Petersburg high society, was to accompany them to the ball
43. In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazán of the court and the girls’ educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Empress
44. When, a few months ago, a house-party for royalty was given at Chatsworth by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, it was at the urgent request of both the king and queen that the Dowager Duchess of Manchester came over from Paris to spend a few days under the same roof with their majesties, whose affection for this low-voiced, sweet-tempered, witty American woman has never wavered
