Meaning of investigatress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female investigator.

Examples

“As many of these are microscopic, a most promising field will, without doubt, open to the investigators and investigatresses who shall enter therein.”

“La reine mit les pistolets à part avec la lettre, en attendant mieux; c’était un commencement d’indice qui pouvait conduire à la vérité.”

“An “investigatress” comes to the institution and endeavors to prove the knight errant a thief. […] Maude Raymond as the investigatress does a most laughable imitation of Mrs. Fay, and made a decided appeal to the audience in several “coon songs.””

“But the result of my study of the unaccountable beings of my own age is the belief that each of them puts her suitors to some same test. The suitors may never perceive what the test is: the investigatress knows admirably.”

“Mrs. Earl Fry bought a bushel basket of peaches for $3.60. In the bottom of the basket she found a note from a lady in Texas, saying that the basket had been sold for 50 cents and asking that she be notified of the cost price to the consumer. There is a lady in Texas who is surely an investigatress.”

“He had seen the advertisement of The Ray, the promised new journal of plain truth, he continued suavely, and if it chanced that she, Miss O’Wynn, was the talented investigatress who was writing the promised article on the alleged Morriston Colony mystery, he begged that she would grant him the favor, the very great favor, of an interview at the earliest possible moment.”

“Arizona’s new organization of vigilantes, the self-styled Women’s Investigating Committee of 500, has struck a snag early in its corporate efforts to purge state politics by compiling data on the “habits, conduct and acts” of public officials. When the Arizona Federation of Democratic Women’s Clubs publicly denounced the investigatresses, no hair was pulled because no one knew whose hair to pull.”

“Mrs. Ridinghouse says, “The men have come to their present state in life by way of a gradual descent from better days. They are epicures in wine, experts on women, and adept in song.” “Pay you next week sure,” is the phrase the men used when they could count on friends for loans of $5, explains Mrs. Ridinghouse. “But this state of affairs cannot go on forever,” says the investigatress. “They fall to the level of dimes eventually and at this point there is no promise of repayment made.””

“WHERE TO DINE—Well, Mary Ward, our courageous gustatory investigatress, has finally completed her rounds of the eateries and, with her last despairing effort, dashed off this report on the road houses: […]”

“Le haut-commissaire adjoint à la Sûreté, le procureur au Tribunal suprême, l’enquêteuse chargée des affaires de la plus haute gravité attendaient que Fleischman donnât son avis.”

“He also seduces a pretty insurance investigatress into connivance with him, and I was pretty glad about that, too.”

“On TV, sleuthing and romance go together like Steed and Mrs. Peel, McMillan and Wife, Starsky and Hutch. There’s nothing like a ravishing murder or a lovely kidnapping to set sparks flying between investigator and investigatress, nothing like a weekly battle of wits as each flexes intellectually for the other.”

“Как выяснила в Яку-Туре моя следовательница Анна Ковина, у Воропаева, когда он ходил на б…ки к своей ненке в соседнее стойбище, был при себе пистолет.”

“– He’s disappeared at this time? – Is what I’m sayin’. Is what I’m sayin’. Is what I’m tellin’ your Island people. Is what I’m tellin’ the Investigatress, right? He’s gone. Dust. Nowhere’s where Bruno was, nowhere and quote me. […] My erstwhile colleagues did nothing to dissuade the Investigatress, the Prosecutor, the press and the public from this version of events, […] And, indeed, nothing could have given the OLB greater satisfaction than the fact that the Police, the Security Division, the Island Council, the Army, the Investigatress Dagmar Frock and the Mainland Government would all have to admit privately whatever public show they could mount around the scapegoat Pirir […]”

“She gives to every inferior science its just rank, leaves some to measure sounds, others to scan syllables, others to weigh vacuums and define spaces and extensions, but reserves to herself her due authority and majesty, keeps her state and ancient title of Vitae Dux, Virtutis Indagatrixᴿᴿᴿ and the rest of those just appellations which of old belonged to her when she merited to be apostrophized, as she was, by the Orator: […] ᴿᴿᴿ Guide of life, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things 2.172; investigatress of virtue, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.5.”

“Seems to me you would be very well advised to turn up to the next employment review with an employment law specialist: a few quid on the right kind of lawyer, to remind the investigatress of her obligations as the representative of your employers, seems in order.”

“Then your cell phone rang and you didn’t even hesitate. You picked it up and I knew I’d have to take a cab home before you ever said one word. I sometimes feel I’ve become Diana, the private investigatress. And I know that’s not a real word.”

“She collects about her an eclectic mixture of schoolchild helpers, from her adopted genetically-engineered-by-aliens boy genius son Luke to cheeky Clyde Langer and aspiring investigatress and headmaster’s daughter Rani Chandra.”

“The Crime Scene Investigator (whom Joe and Bill still thought of as a Crime Scene Investigatress – they broke into the force at a more innocent time) – whose name was actually Malinka Moosemeat, but who had enough experience with the detectives to know better than to try and correct them – there weren’t enough hours in the day – responded, “Joe. Bill.””

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