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  • Gonsalvo then bites deeply into a bottle of carbolic acid and, just as the Coroner climbs into the house, the pictures of the modern lover and loveress appear in the newspapers, and fashionable society receives a jolt.

    You Should Worry Says John Henry Hugh McHugh

  • _Enter comic loveress R., walking in the middle of the road.

    Stage-Land 1893

  • ‘fluteress’, ‘possesseress’, ‘loveress’, but have never met them in use.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • a good deal, but I guess Polly is the loveress, replied

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • "I walked to that delightful place Craky-hall with a delightful young man beloved by all his friends espacially by me his loveress, but I must not talk any more about him for Isa said it is not proper for to speak of gentalmen but I will never forget him! ...

    Stories of Childhood Various 1885

  • Fan laughed a good deal, but I guess Polly is the loveress, "replied Maud, after a moment's reflection.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870

  • Polly! you are the most faithful 'loveress,' as Maud says, that was ever known. "

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870

  • "I walked to that delightful place Crakyhall with a delightful young man beloved by all his friends especially by me his loveress, but I must not talk any more about him for Isa said it is not proper for to speak of gentalmen but I will never forget him! ...

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Fan laughed a good deal, but I guess Polly is the loveress, "replied Maud, after a moment's reflection.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • Polly! you are the most faithful 'loveress,' as Maud says, that was ever known. "

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860

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