spectatress

• “I know you are merely a spectatress, and I will not alarm your friends, nor dwell myself, upon collateral mischiefs, or eventual dangers, from a business that in three days will end, by your restoration to the most respectable of all protections.”

  Camilla

• “Edgar, looking after her with affected reproach, but real admiration, asked the hand of Eugenia; who gave it with readiness and pleasure; for, though contented as a spectatress, she experienced an agreeable surprise in becoming a party engaged.”

  Camilla

• “At the end of the two dances, Lord Ernolf again attempted to engage her for his son, but she now excused herself from dancing any more, and sat quietly as a spectatress till the rest of the company gave over.”

  Cecilia

• “Now all the impressions of burning desire, from the lively scenes I had been spectatress of, ripened by the heat of this exercise, and, collecting to a head, throbbed and agitated me with insupportable irritations: I was perfectly fevered and maddened with their excess.”

  How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision

• “Of all these little incidents, Dot was the amused and open – eyed spectatress from her chair in the cart; and as she sat there, looking on — a charming little portrait framed to admiration by the tilt — there was no lack of nudgings and glancings and whisperings and envyings among the younger men.”

  The Cricket on the Hearth

• “Acropolis rose high, spectatress of a thousand changes, of ancient glory,”

  The Last Man

• “Of all the little incidents of the day, Dot was the amused and open-eyed spectatress from her chair in the cart; making a charming little portrait as she sat there, looking on.”

  Ten Girls from Dickens

• “Page 250 and I resolved to be at least a spectatress of this.”

  Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison

• “The hapless cause of all stood "spectatress of the fray" beside her kitchen fire.”

  Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.

• “Above his tent was a smaller pavilion in the shape of a watch-tower, in which was seated, as spectatress of the fights, the Georgian Princess, the strong-minded Rosalinde, who had, by praiseworthy perseverance, and allowing no trifles to stand in her way, completely won the heart of”

  The Seven Champions of Christendom

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