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    matron


    1. After a few moments of conversation, the matron pointed


    2. The young matron dimpled and blushed


    3. "And this is the lounge area," the matron told us, stepping aside so that we could view a dismal room dominated by a large, wide-screened television set


    4. "Not if Mrs Prescott and Miss Plunkett are in the lounge," the matron informed us sternly


    5. The matron jerked her head as though she had suddenly smelt something offensive


    6. "What's that?" The matron asked in a waspish tone


    7. He had to give his name to a middle-aged Red Cross matron behind a desk that barred entrance into the female Red Cross billet, who then went in search of Elizabeth


    8. The matron returned to her desk, and a few minutes later, Elizabeth appeared


    9. The head matron said "You and three others are permitted to take your gifts in with the nurses to Ward 7B


    10. Matron pressed the lift button and the doors opened instantly

    11. The happier they sounded, the sadder she grew, finally it ground to a halt at the insistence of an older matron, who asked with all the respect that she could muster, “Why does our happiness make you sad? Should you not be elated to be restored to your rightful position? What is your wish for us?”


    12. One day I received a message that I must report to the office of the Matron of RVC, a woman whom we all regarded with dread


    13. He informed me that he had seen the Matron, he didn’t elaborate (I didn’t tell him about her interview with me) and she would not cooperate with him


    14. I want to believe in you too, Jason,” she said as a jail matron told us we had five more minutes


    15. I said goodbye as the matron took Chelsea by the arm and led her out the door


    16. “These things have called me here, as Mark’s matron goddess, so that he may be Examined to determine whether he is indeed a Candidate for Divinity


    17. As expected, the matron was not very helpful and said that the nurse on duty at that time had left soon after Lorna was discharged, but if Lorna wished she could lodge a formal complaint and the matter would be investigated


    18. By then Major Bruijnis had retired as matron of the Hanbury Home For Children after


    19. -- Neither the Matron nor any of her staff would under any circumstances


    20. they were given a mild sedative (or a cup of tea, which the Matron believed to be

    21. And Matron would be extremely unhappy,


    22. • Muhammad (PBUH) said, “A matron should not be given in


    23. Fat, talkative, with the airs of a matron in dis-grace, she renounced the sterile illusions of her cards and found peace and consolation in other people’s loves


    24. She walked to one end of the table and stared hard at the Luftwaffe matron


    25. Ingrid’s three best friends stared angrily at the matron, with young Frida Winterer shouting at Meissner


    26. 'He sort of fell down the stairs,’ they mumbled at the matron, which didn’t


    27. Hanna gave an icy stare at the matron, who was still a fanatical follower of the Nazi Party and who was strongly suspected by Hanna of having led the group that had beaten Ingrid at night in her sleep


    28. Frida Winterer, one of Ingrid’s best friends, stepped towards Messner, her fists tight, but was stopped by another friend of Ingrid, the tall and beautiful Susanna Berghof, who eyed the matron with contempt


    29. When I returned home I mentioned it to mother, she just nodded and carried on with her preparations instructing the kitchen matron about the weeks cooking


    30. Angie then turned to face the commander of her detention platoon, a big matron with rough manners

    31. Matron Six, out!’’


    32. In all our time together she always acted the wealthy Panamanian matron, never showing


    33. The matron of the almshouse shouldn't hold hands


    34. Betty is a midwife and she's got to know Sister Alice well since she arrived here to be matron of our almshouse


    35. 'One was an outrageous assault by the abbot's bailiffs on the matron of the almshouse


    36. 'Both of them … the Cobham woman and that matron


    37. They don't expect to see the matron of the almshouse on Dancing Hill


    38. 'It has come to my notice that you, Harald Gascoigne, have been engaging in illicit intercourse with a certain Sister Alice de Lambert, a lady in holy orders and currently matron of the almshouse in this town of Sherborne


    39. 'She's matron of the almshouse


    40. Can't you get it into your thick skull that Alice does not want to be matron of the almshouse

    41. In early September, Sister Alice de Lambert, matron of the Sherborne almshouse, became aware that she was pregnant


    42. The matron of the almshouse is being sought


    43. The matron (a major) reproved him


    44. And last, but not least, your Matron of Honor will be here as a decoy to distract those who would rend your love for Marcus asunder


    45. matron, one of those of which, etc


    46. the Trastevere; not merely a Roman matron, whereof, etc


    47. She was surprised, but pleased that Marcus had chosen me to be her Matron of Honor and asked me to spend the night with her


    48. " ' Uncle Richard came to the room and hugged me, then told me I was a beautiful matron of honor as he handed me


    49. Harvey-Browne, to whom, I suppose, she being a matron of years and patent sobriety, he thought cheery remarks might safely be addressed


    50. Matron but was too scared to wondering





































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    Synonyms for "matron"

    matron superintendent housemother housekeeper supervisor dame matriarch lady mother woman wife

    "matron" definitions

    a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified


    a wardress in a prison


    a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution