"Citizeness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mere 'annonce' of any thing that can tell me of your 'introuvable' friend Lafontaine. This is not for myself. The intelligence is required for a sister of his whom I have lately met in this country—a showy "citizeness" of Zurich, embonpoint and matronly, married to one of the portly burghers of the city, and exemplary in all the arts of sheep-shearing, wool-spinning, and cheese-making; a mother, surrounded a la Francaise with a host of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... maintenance of the ideas which we have formed for ourselves, we hesitate and we became children before the prayers and the tears of our children. I have then a daughter whom I have reared to be an honest woman and a true citizeness. I thought I had formed her to my image, and here I was ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 • Various |
