"Hum -- maybe my adventuress was the same person in disguise," Mr. Palmer thoughtfully observed. From Wordnik.com. [Mona] Reference
"adventuress," which has an ugly sound, but of which no one exactly knows the precise meaning, began to be bruited about. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
Cora was an adventuress to the tips of her fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Doubtless he, also, looked upon her as an adventuress. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The idea of that man falling for a pretty adventuress!. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
‘An adventuress!’ my mother had said of her one day. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
She was skilled as any adventuress in the art of captivating. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Had he not known from the first that the woman was an adventuress?. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
I want Mr. DeVere to be sitting in that when the adventuress comes in. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas] Reference
Longueval in the hands of a foreigner, of a heretic, of an adventuress!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Gambetta in his excitement had acted as if she were a mere adventuress. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
I had taken her for a mere adventuress, speculating on his supposed wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
The picture is drawn of a fast-living adventuress obsessed by money and fame. From Wordnik.com. [Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it] Reference
They had time working for them, and their profile of the target-an adventuress. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
I want him to imagine that I am as much of an adventuress as he is an adventurer. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
And yet Stephen Richford had been in the same room with this brilliant adventuress!. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
"An adventuress! and that is the least of it -- a heretic, Monsieur l'Abbe, a Protestant!". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He denounces her day and night as a painted adventuress; a sort of barmaid with gilt hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
"She is French, I suppose," said the doctor; thinking to himself, "Some adventuress, doubtless.". From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
There stood the adventuress whose character had left its mark on society all over Europe — the. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Hotel] Reference
So becoming the lover of Public Enemy No. 1 was actually a rung up the ladder for an adventuress. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Depp'll Do Ya! Johnny Gets His Gun] Reference
Marry me now, this hour, Elizabeth, and face the world that will call you plotter and adventuress. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
"But granting that this woman was an adventuress, as you say, what has that to do with Miss Dundas?". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
But my ex-pupil is not to be confounded for one moment with the average adventuress of the newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
You have been visited by the Princess Petrovska, an adventuress not fit to touch the hem of your skirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
She should find her husband rated as a doting fool, and herself rated as a scheming female adventuress. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
Her worldly wisdom, which he had found so baffling, was that of the skilled and experienced adventuress!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Chickerel, much less a poetess richly freighted with fancy than an adventuress with a nebulous prospect. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
You will warm me a ssaucer of milk and tell me of your adventuress ssince you left the Wayss of Ssawall. From Wordnik.com. [Prince of Chaos]
But this time Strong is not to be caught napping, and the vanquished adventuress resigns herself to her fate. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Besides, an adventuress, a lady explorer, would not give up the chase simply because her brother told her so. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
His current lady friend was a thrice-married Hungarian adventuress who was not the countess she was often described as being. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow] Reference
On the discovery of the truth, I declined to allow the English adventuress, for such she was, another appearance on my boards. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
The embrace somehow brought tears into the eyes of the little adventuress — which ornaments, as we know, she wore very seldom. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
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