Severance's

She thought of her plans for the next day; she made a mental recount of the gifts she had prepared, and then, somehow against her will, her memory took her back to that morning when she had heard of her father's death and listened to Miss Severance's story, and she lived over again those intense moments when it almost seemed to her her mother had been restored to her in this rare friend.

The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

She and Nan had their hours of tender mourning and sincere regret, but it was always Miss Severance's desire that no unwholesome brooding should be indulged in by either of them.

The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

She liked to look into those books of Miss Severance's that had her mother's name upon the fly-leaf, and she liked to think that they were given to "Bell with Florence's fond love."

The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

Then he bent down again swiftly and poured the whole contents of the tumbler he was holding into the little hollow of Mrs. Severance's throat just above the collar-bone.

Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

"Oh yes, yes, yes," from Mr. Piper very eagerly and with Oliver's and his assistance Mr.. Severance's invalid form was aided into a deep chair.

Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

If you could see that horrid Victorian drawing-room at Miss Severance's you could stand even sticky kitties -- in a picture.

The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

The Carter girl -- she who was known as "Pig Carter" at Miss Severance's school -- was snapping, "What in the world ever made you come to this frightful hole, mama?"

The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

Severance's calm and impersonal cynicism was transmuted into a genuine enthusiasm among the copy-readers.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

After that conversation Banneker definitely decided that Severance's activities must be curbed.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

It was conducted by the proprietress of a fashionable reducing gymnasium, who was allowed, as this was a comparatively unimportant feature, to supply the text subject to Severance's touching-up ingenuity; but the models were devised and posed by Capron.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914