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When challengers predeigned to question her verbial usage, she proclared herself an inventress of words, colining herself with no less auspecial a wordsmith than Shakespeare.

Dylan Brody: In Defensity of Sarah Palin 2010

When challengers predeigned to question her verbial usage, she proclared herself an inventress of words, colining herself with no less auspecial a wordsmith than Shakespeare.

Dylan Brody: In Defensity of Sarah Palin Dylan Brody 2010

When he became a Roman Catholic, St. Cecilia, "inventress of the vocal frame," became his chief devotion; and the _Song on St. Cecilia's Day_ and

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Since then, Miss Maggie Knight, the inventress of the machine above mentioned, has found out another; namely for folding paper-bags.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

MELPOM'ENE, one of the nine Muses, whose name signifies "To represent in song," is said to have been the inventress of tragedy, over which she presided, always veiled, bearing in one hand the lyre, as the emblem of her vocation, and in the other a tragic mask.

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

T.e fact is, I was about to try to interview Miss Jenny T. Buller, the inventress and manager of the "Brothers 'Agency," perhaps the most important social factor of the present century.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Pallas is esteemed the goddess of shepherds and pasture, and is the reputed inventress of corn, and is thought by some to be Ceres or Vesta.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

Om-parties and breathing-parties and standing-on-one-leg parties, while she herself, Daisy Quantock, would be bidden to these as a humble guest, and Lucia would get all the credit, and, as likely as not, invite the discoverer, the inventress, just now and then.

Queen Lucia 1903

She had been, if not the inventress of Romance, the

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

My own little heroine was manager, eye, inventress, commandress, guiding head and soul of everything; and made

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883