Meaning of lieutenantess | Babel Free

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A female lieutenant.

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“To the Queen of Arragon. To the most illuſtrious Queen, our moſt dear and moſt beloved Wife, and Lieutenanteſs generall.”

“But what shall be our uniform? As I hope to be at least a Lieutenant-ess in the new Female Battalion, I should like to be getting the materials together.”

“Here I never see a white woman, save two Irish lieutenantesses.”

“Capt. S. B. Bentley and a select quartet then sang “Beans for Dinner,” the band played “Bully for You,” and the march was at once taken up for McGregor’s Hall, where Mrs. Gregg and her lieutenantesses had spread the board for about as well prepared meal as ever we struck.”

“Let it not be imagined that I am high and mighty enough to associate on terms of an equality with lordly Lieutenants and lordlier Lieutenantesses. No![…]I approached an open window to feast my ears with the music and my eyes with the beauty of the aforesaid Lieutenantesses.”

“Imagine Sam. going down Broadway some afternoon with a captainess in front of him, a lieutenantess on either side of him, and a sergeantess in the rear!”

“But instead, the soldiery will fatten and grow sleek and strong and Commissary Sergeantess Morgan will be promoted and become a Lieutenantess, and then a Captainess, and afterwards a Majoress, and from that to Coloneless, and who knows but some time when she inspects the camp the voice of the sentry at post No. 1 will be heard calling as she approaches: “The Generaless of the Colorado Militia! Turn out the guard!””

“From this hour until Christmas eve “Burke’s” will be emphatically a Christmas Store. We have turned the entire establishment over to Santa Claus—and to you, his legions of lieutenants and lieutenantesses —to the gift-gatherers and gift-givers of Rochester and surrounding towns.”

“And she appeared before the lieutenantess and respectfully requested to know her wishes, taking care not to seem to recognize her, or else to humble herself before her as a personage of vastly greater consequence than the servant who used to take the marquis’s little dogs out to walk.”

“I will leave you, M. le Capitaine Tonti, to the tender mercies of my fair lieutenantess, who will show you the bewildering novelty of the marriage market this morning.”

“The Amazon generaless turned to her first lieutenantess. “The enemy must be hemmed in before the break of the day,” she said, “or we will have to fight.” “Very well, ma’am,” replied the lieutenantess, “I’ll order the volunteer company of seamstresses to get busy at once.””

“Probably nowhere in Europe, not even in Germany, can one so often hear such snatches of conversation as this between two women whose husbands, living most sparingly, cannot make both ends meet: “How is the health of the first lieutenantess to-day?” “Thanks, I am quite well; and how is the magistratess feeling?””

“No proclamation could give more pain than this, if such a thing as pain existed, for, unless widespread and persistent rumor be not entirely false, more than one of Mrs. Eddy’s most prominent—and, therefore, least loved—lieutenantesses have been enduring their present state of subordination with much impatience, and have long been making subtle preparations for seizing her sceptre the moment it falls from her hand.”

“Not having yet located Mrs. Pankhurst, I interviewed one of her lieutenanteses to-day, and put the question as to Mr. Churchill’s probable chances.”

“Holbrook is in executive charge and has installed Maggie as his lieutenantess in an office adjoining his own.”

“A Lieutenantess of Police. Washington now has a woman lieutenant of police.”

“Mrs. Marian Gage, has been acting as his first lieutenantess with piano accompaniments.”

“Up on the platform, among their lieutenants — and only one lieutenantess — sat the Gang of Four united in a simple, common aim: to be Prime Minister.”

“You see, it happened that two lieutenantesses were fighting, because their husbands had made cuckolds of them ...”

“When the guests saw the lighting in the garden, they all cried: “Long live Françoise! Long live the Lieutenantess Governoress!” Françoise, with her nostrils distended, and Longstreet, with his Metropolitan’s helmet in his hand, returned to salute the worshipful crowd.”

“Brown was PM, his lieutenantess Wendy Alexander was leader of Labour in Holyrood, and the question was whether Scotland should have a referendum on independence.”

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