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  • Matrons and starlets, stockbrokers and models, politicians and prize-fighters all jockeyed to be included.

    Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012

  • Matrons and starlets, stockbrokers and models, politicians and prize-fighters all jockeyed to be included.

    Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012

  • The Poor are become respectful, the Rich (if such there be) compassionate, Inferiours are humble, Superiours are affable, the Women vertuous, the Men valiant, the Matrons prudent, Daughters obedient,

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Pattern to the Youth, and the Envy of the Matrons, a Curb to the present licentious Age, and an Example to the future.

    Exilius 2008

  • Ha ha who can forget the Des Moines register and its looney tunes behavior in the primaries - sent one of their own editorial Matrons to “moderate” a debate between barry and Hillary, and then promptly endorsed Hillary.

    The Sunday Word: McCain Invokes ‘the Gipper’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The Poor are become respectful, the Rich (if such there be) compassionate, Inferiours are humble, Superiours are affable, the Women vertuous, the Men valiant, the Matrons prudent, Daughters obedient,

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Update III: Apparently we're going to have super-powerful Matrons back in hospital to tackle MRSA.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Matrons kissed the slippers they had worked for him.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Matrons used to rule with a rod of iron to keep standards up.

    Archive 2004-07-04 Laban 2004

  • And there are going to be new "Community Matrons" to police it.

    B2fxxx 2005

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