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Freda Streeter is the grand-dame of channel swimming.

2008 October « The Justgiving Blog 2008

Freda Streeter is the grand-dame of channel swimming.

2008 October 27 « The Justgiving Blog 2008

Freda Streeter is the grand-dame of channel swimming.

Steve (almost) swims the Channel « The Justgiving Blog 2008

These blunders occasioned grief to his grand-dame, and disconcerted the good opinion which her neighbour, Davie Deans, had for some time entertained of Reuben.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Butler was acquiring at the University of St. Andrews the knowledge necessary for a clergyman, and macerating his body with the privations which were necessary in seeking food for his mind, his grand-dame became daily less able to struggle with her little farm, and was at length obliged to throw it up to the new Laird of

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

As soon as Earnscliff had been duly welcomed, and hasty orders issued for some addition to the evening meal, his grand-dame and sisters opened their battery upon Hobbie Elliot for his lack of success against the deer.

The Black Dwarf 2004

The son was then forbidden to think of Marie; especially that old witch of a grand-dame I had seen, Madame

Villette 2003

And first of all the little girl was called and is still called Little Golden-hood; secondly, it was not she, nor the good grand-dame, but the wicked Wolf who was, in the end, caught and devoured.

The Red Fairy Book 2003

Here a grand-dame is carefully assisted along by her son and daughter-in-law, preceded by chattering grandchildren in the gayest of dresses, tugging at extraordinary kites; or a father, in the doorway of his house, nurses one child, while the mother exhibits for the admiration of sympathizing friends another infant -- probably one of the unconscious objects of all this rejoicing.

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs Jacob Mortimer Wier Silver

He will esteem infinitely more the poorest of the workmen -- a wood-sawyer or a bell-hanger -- than a politician haranguing from the mantel, or an old literary dame who sparkles like a window in the Palais-Royal, and is tattooed like a Caribbean; he will prefer an old; wrinkled, village grand-dame in her white cap, who still hoes, although sixty years old, her little field of potatoes.

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