Matronly

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Matronly Odile is the omniscient front-of-the-house manager of the tiny ten-table cafe.

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  • Matronly Odile is the omniscient front-of-the-house manager of the tiny ten-table cafe. —  Houston Press | Complete Issue
  • Women are Buxom and just blossoming into the Full Charm of Matronly —  More Fables
  • Matronly dignity was visible in every movement, and the charm of her manner lay, not in a youthful endeavor to be pleasing, but in the effort of age to please others, considering their wishes, and at the same time demanding consideration in return. —  An Egyptian Princess — Volume 01
  • Matronly and family services -- No mythology at first -- Colleges of priests needed -- An incursion of Greek philosophers -- Games of childhood —  The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
  • "Why, my dearest children," Matronly Virtue exclaimed, "this anxiety to behold the young Marquis of Farintosh, whom we expect at our modest table, Mrs. Pendennis, to-day? —  The Newcomes
 

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