He always preceded her pompous name of Adelaide with the title madame with an air of half respectful mockery. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories] Reference
Elizabeth Ashley will play the title madame in The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of George Bernard Shaw's. From Wordnik.com. [Playbill.com : News] Reference
BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest survey shows safest states in Mexico] Reference
The male madame is driven to extremes of emotion over office messiness. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives] Reference
"Come, monsieur, you must be off; madame is here and you may be discovered.". From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
But don't take the trouble to replace it, for madame is coming in a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
When he passed me in madame's dressing-room he made a reverence, as if I had been a court lady. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
"You should not call her madame," said D'Artagnan. From Wordnik.com. [Louise de la Valliere] Reference
He had once called her madame and she had protested. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Society]
Oh, if she could undo the past and call madame back to life!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
He had hesitated to call her madame, remembering the plea brought forward in the suit for the dissolution of her marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1] Reference
That madame, is a very deliberate lie. From Wordnik.com. [Responses to the commenters on the “Guilty Pleasures” post. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
"Oh, madame, that is a crime which no magistrate could possibly commit. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
The idea of my settling down into being an ordinary "madame" did not please him. From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine An Autobiography]
madame Joubert was forced to borrow from "madame" the stale weekly "Courrier des. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
"Oh! and madame -- how long has she been his wife?". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"He's always the same, madame," said the man, gloomily. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"Pardon me, madame, but are you a stranger to the city?". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"This isn't the eighteenth, but the seventeenth, madame.". From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
"By my faith, madame, I'll put myself under no conditions.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
"Stand where you are," I said, as madame approached the fire. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
"I beg pardon, madame, you appear in trouble; perhaps I intrude?". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
My dear madame, on the honor of a gentleman, I saw Monsieur le Marquis de. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
We are natives of the same country, madame, the country of tears and poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
"That he would arrive on the one o'clock express, madame; and he never fails.". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"He said, madame, that he wished to speak with you; that he was an old friend.". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"No, madame, I am not hear to feed your stomach — I am here to feed yoursoul.". From Wordnik.com. [Quixote Bronson, Savior of Neglected Suburban Housewives] Reference
"Leave the brindle heifer tied!" shrilled madame as the child reached the courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
( "" Hi, madame, I'm calling from Concorde Capital in Manhattan's Hanover Square. ''). From Wordnik.com. [Small Stocks, Big Frauds] Reference
I am a father, my dear madame, and have been of course the rejoicing papa of a matchless child. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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