lady superior
Example Sentences
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They were always satisfied; and the lady superior led them through the building, and bowed to them, exclaiming: 'We love them so much, the poor little dears!
From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile
She had made a great many promises to the lady superior, but she fancied that the utterance of a few commonplace words of warning relieved her of all further obligations.
From The Count's Millions by Gaboriau, Émile
Instead of coming, as he did every day before making the rounds, into the office of the sister-druggist, he went straight up to the room of the lady superior.
From Within an Inch of His Life by Gaboriau, Émile
Then he hurried to the lady superior and took his leave, Pancha standing silent at the window until the door had closed behind him.
From A Wounded Name by King, Charles
This was Michaelmas: on that day the press was to have followed Lenette's Salzburg emigrants, the napkins, as their lady superior; but nobody in all the town would have anything to do with it.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
