"Defendress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is more fashionable than any thing but brag; the women play very deep at both—as deep, it is much suspected, as the matrons of Rome did at the mysteries of the Bona Dea. If gracious Anne was alive, she would make an admirable defendress of the new faith, and build fifty ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole |
