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  • “While forms such as "authoress" and "lawyeress" sound ridiculous -- I don't see why we should shun altogether nouns that indicate gender.”

    Sense & Sensuality

  • “This produced words like ‘doctress’ and ‘professoress,’ and even ‘lawyeress,’ all of which have fallen out of use; though waitress, stewardess, and actress are in contemporary use for some speakers.”

    Sense & Sensuality

  • “You are a truly hospitable lawyeress, J. Elfreda," lauded Kathleen”

    Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer

  • “I can see that you are making fun of a poor defenseless lawyeress," retorted Elfreda good-humoredly.”

    Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer

  • “You mean lawyeress, according to the Dean vocabulary," reminded Arline”

    Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer

  • “We only decided that you were a distinguished lawyeress.”

    Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer

  • “I shall begin by referring to my friend, Miss J. Elfreda Briggs, the distinguished lawyeress.”

    Grace Harlowe's Problem

  • “The prince sat down in the front of the box, opposite Mme. Derline, and while looking at that lawyeress he was thinking.”

    Parisian Points of View

  • “And yet he had intended to go to the Palmers and preside at the deification of his lawyeress.”

    Parisian Points of View

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