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  • Maidie noted that her ladyship's glance ran swiftly over her plain stuff gown, and settled for a moment on her tightly banded hair.

    Gatlinburg 2010

  • They seem to be a quite extraordinary people; Lord Granville writes from Petersburg that Lady Wodehouse's Russian maid was found eating the contents of one of her ladyship's dressing-table pots - it was castor oil pomatum for the hair!

    Fiancée 2010

  • "Miss Dorset is her ladyship's cousin, and her secretary-companion," the footman said.

    Farthing 2006

  • Her ladyship's inclination in this regard was, in fact, one of those matters which good society had chosen to keep as a public secret: Everyone knew, but everyone worth knowing treated the information as nonexistent.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Nearly all of them _would_ speak of her ladyship's favors -- of the body carnal as well as the body financial -- and some would go so far as to vaunt their conquest in the coffee houses.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • This was not to say that all of her ladyship's alliances ended badly for the young men.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • I have a degree from Oxford, Mister Sharpe, yet even I cannot match her ladyship's knowledge of the Georgics.

    Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

  • He did not go until it was all over and she had heard Mr. Ryder tell him — she did not think he had intended her to hear — that he did not believe her ladyship's life was in danger.

    Unforgiven Balogh, Mary 1998

  • Totally unconcerned by her ladyship's grand schemes, which had even stretched as far as the Duke of Huntington, Sophie smiled gaily.

    A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

  • Then reality returned, and with it awareness-of the conjecture in Lord Entwhistle's eyes, the startled look on her ladyship's face, and the role she herself had to play.

    A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

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