Femme

Examples

• Worlds could not have tempted either me, or my _femme de chambre_, to have passed another night alone in that house. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I know you well--St. Pierre, the Parisienne--cette ma?tresse-femme, my cousin Beck herself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Une femme superbe--une taille d'impératrice, des formes de Junon, mais une personne dont je ne voudrais ni pour femme, ni pour fille, ni pour soeur. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The world called the owner of these blue eyes _bonne petite femme_ (she was not an Englishwoman). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That will do, said I, sick of the dry, dull subject; and I took a place for myself and my _femme de chambre_ in the Exeter mail without further delay. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You look like Balzac's '_Femme Peinte Par Elle-Meme_', he said, as he fanned her with one hand and held her coffee cup in the other. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I had no man-servant in town: my _femme de chambre_ was the only human being I had left in the house. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Seeing my embarrassment, she said, You have not been a femme-de-chambre in your own country? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And laids, indeed, they were; being a set of four, denominated in the catalogue La vie d'une femme. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You could not compose the _devoir_ of 'La Première Femme Savante'? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Is it her Ladyship that wants to escape, or her Ladyship's femme de chambre? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He asked all travellers whether they knew a certain Colonel Lor Crawley--avec sa femme une petite dame, tres spirituelle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• After dinner Will told me that the strange gentleman begged to be allowed to speak to my _femme-de-chambre_, Mrs. Kennedy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Je ne serai jamais femme de bourgeois, moi! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nothing so absurd, she said, as for des femmes m?res 'to dress themselves like girls of fifteen'--quant à la. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Singulières femmes que ces Anglaises! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And gare aux femmes, look out and hold your own! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Edited by Cecilia