marchioness

• “Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875

• “Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning, and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away.”

  Malcolm

• “One assumes there are many important moments in the life of a marchioness, which is the British aristocratic title that comes after duchess.”

  The Washington Post: Saturday Conversation: The Marchioness of Worcester

• “Of course, to become a marchioness was a substantial lure as well, especially when Raoul talked of the family estates in the Loire.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dressmaker

• “The marchioness was a lady with a passion for bridge, and an intense admiration for Adrien Leroy.”

  Adrien Leroy

• “The widow of a marquis, whom you should by rights call a marchioness dowager (but we overlook it -- you meant no harm) is entitled (in any hotel that we know or frequent) to go in to dinner whenever, and as often, as she likes.”

  Frenzied Fiction

• “The marchioness was a woman of the world, while her husband's interests were confined to his books.”

  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

• “England, the same order of succession which justice required, was also the most conformable to public interest; and there was not on any side any just ground for doubt or deliberation: that when these three princesses were excluded by such solid reasons, the succession devolved on the marchioness of Dorset, elder daughter of the French queen and the duke of Suffolk: that the next heir of the marchioness was the lady Jane”

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary

• “No," the duchess admitted, "but it so happens that your grandmother the marchioness was my particular friend.”

  Ungrateful Governess

• “_ So it appears, Teresa; and shall I tell you why? because the marchioness is a woman, and you are a woman too: now I’ve always observed that when a female has done wrong, she ever meets with least indulgence from persons of her own sex; and whenever I want to hear the foibles of one woman properly cut up, I never fail to ask another woman what she thinks of them.”

  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

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