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  • Under this title the Marchioness repaired, in tears, to the school of his selection, from which, as she soon distanced all competitors, she was removed before the lapse of many quarters to one of a higher grade.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Under this title the Marchioness repaired, in tears, to the school of his selection, from which, as she soon distanced all competitors, she was removed before the lapse of many quarters to one of a higher grade.

    The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

  • He had taken her away, and she it was whom he called the Marchioness della Croce, now six months with child.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • Under this title the Marchioness repaired, in tears, to the school of his selection, from which, as she soon distanced all competitors, she was removed before the lapse of many quarters to one of a higher grade.

    Old Curiosity Shop 1800

  • He had taken her away, and she it was whom he called the Marchioness della Croce, now six months with child.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • He had taken her away, and she it was whom he called the Marchioness della Croce, now six months with child.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 26: Spain Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • The Marchioness is a Genie, and having had a wager with another Genie about who is the handsomest young man alive, and the worthiest to be the husband of the

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • The Marchioness was a small servant employed by Sampson Brass and his sister Sally, as general house-worker and drudge, in which capacity she was discovered by Mr. Richard Swiveller, upon the very first day of his entering the Brass establishment as clerk.

    Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

  • You need not even endure the ignominy of being known as the Marchioness of Coombe.

    Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • His mother -- his corporeal mother, that is, the Marchioness of

    A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

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