The "little marquise" is said to have died in child-bed at the Hague, in 1661. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
The marquise was the wife of the man, who broke his plighted faith to the young Fraulein Van Hoogstraten. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Wits, authors, poets, artists, statesmen, whose words could change the fate of Europe, were proud to call the marquise friend. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference
"Mason and Slidell" fame, a "marquise," in thread lace and velvet, her sisters, the Misses Deslonde, "peasant girls of France.". From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
The marquise is a villainess. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Killer] Reference
A large door, protected by a projecting awning -- a "marquise" as it is called. From Wordnik.com. [Mystère de la chambre jaune. English] Reference
"marquise" rings for four cents apiece (our money), some war clubs or rungas for the same, several spears, armlets, stools and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
"Oh, you shall see," added the marquise seriously. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Let the juice dry in and massage with creme marquise. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Thoughts of Tanya as a marquise, of Dolly, all had vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Thus, instead of the pug dog, marquise No. 2 would hold a King. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One of the baubles was a marquise-cut 32. 44-carat diamond ring. From Wordnik.com. [Fools And Their Jewels Are Soon Parted] Reference
She also wore enormous earrings with marquise diamonds and rubies. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part IV] Reference
The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem offended. From Wordnik.com. [Study of a Woman] Reference
The creme marquise is a whiter, harder preparation than any of the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Mademoiselle Lacroix had a packet which she desired to send to the marquise. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
“No — He is certainly a most impertinent man,” reflected the marquise. From Wordnik.com. [Study of a Woman] Reference
"It's a long drive for him," added the marquise, a ring of sympathy in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Here the marquise met her on one of her visits and heard the story of her sorrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
I owned fervent love, and made high professions: for the marquise put it home to me. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I hear, because your maman was to be there, too, and you were ashamed to take a French marquise. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
She did not become a duchess until in 1842, and bore the title of marquise previous to that time. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Remarkably, the marquise remained on good terms with Casanova when she failed to become pregnant. From Wordnik.com. [Busy, Busy, Busy] Reference
Jeanne and Julien were looking at this royal gift when the marquis and marquise entered the room. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie] Reference
And the ones here range from Baltic beetroot cake to dark chocolate and Japanese cherry-tea marquise. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion: Scottish Style] Reference
Avoid sharp impacts on the stone and shapes with exposed points, like a marquise, should be protected. From Wordnik.com. [EMRALD FACTS] Reference
M. O'BRIEN: Well, on the marquise, it was a basketball game, but it quickly started looking like hockey. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007] Reference
I said, with affected surprise: "your manner has led me to suppose you marquise at least, if not duchesse.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The creme marquise is especially difficult for the woman who tumbles things together in a haphazard fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Alice de Bréville holding the lantern while the marquise bound on the mare's blanket with a girdle of straw. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
I think the capper was desert - a huge chocolate marquise, sprinkled with (yes, you're reading it right) gold leaf. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
No one in his wildest dreams, however, could set out with the picture of a marquise, and top it off with a Normandy cap. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Clamard who does not like pussy-cats, but is too well-bred to tell you so, and the marquise who flatters you, and Blondel!. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
"I didn't want to be a marquise, you know?" said Diane Von Furstenberg, with a conspiratorial narrowing of her dusky brown eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Chilly Liaisons Abounding At Met For The Big Ball] Reference
That six-carat marquise diamond on your left hand took you off the market and bought him whirlpool baths and second helpings in bed. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
Pere Issacar was a fair man and promised to furnish frames, paper, and pastels, and to pay the young girl fifteen francs for each marquise. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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