The night wardress with the hacking cough had been changed. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
Just let the wardress see your bag and your pockets if you have any. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Ecstasy]
A wardress or two were watching us, and we were not allowed to move. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
I begged that, at least, they might be kept in charge of the wardress. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
Soon after this the wardress came near my bed and said it was time to get up. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
This remark was made by the wardress who shouted past me with a sort of bark. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
I was left in charge of a wardress I had not seen before; she was very amiable. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
At last, after putting the patient to much distress, the wardress did the work. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
At a long table underneath it sat a wardress reading or sewing at her own clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
The door opened and a wardress put in a pair of sheets for me to take to the cell. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
She took the chair opposite to Wimsey, the wardress withdrew and the door was shut. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Poison]
The hospital wardress had to stand at the gate all the time that we were doing this. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
The wardress gave no answer, but with a wave of her hand showed us towards the cubicles. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
She looked across the yard to the wardress of her own corridor who then came to help her. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
He turned to the wardress and said, What an extraordinary request to put before a doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
I supposed that responsibility for my refusal would fall upon the wardress, so I drank it down. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
No nurse was in attendance on her during the night, only the ordinary night officer (wardress). From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
The wardress herself had a hard, hacking, bronchial cough, which must have hurt her a good deal. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
I was shown through a series of passages and up a flight of stairs, where a wardress was in charge. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
She had no control over her foot and said to the elder wardress that there must be something wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
Mrs. Lawrence put her case, guarded by a wardress, standing before the seated board of Magistrates. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
Presently there was a noise of footsteps, and the prisoner was brought in, attended by a female wardress. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Poison]
In five jails where the small number of female inmates requires only one wardress, the latter is a lay person. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The laces had no tags, my fingers were very cold, and being hurried up by the wardress made them the more awkward. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
The door was left open and the wardress sat just outside so as to hear, and if necessary control our communications. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
A female collector of antique curiosities, or something in the nature of a retired wardress might take on the job, but. From Wordnik.com. [Simon] Reference
Finally, I settled down to watching the wardress and the other prisoners, and wondering who they were and what their crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
After one of my addresses I was speaking to one of the wardresses about their repeated convictions, when the wardress said. From Wordnik.com. [London's Underworld] Reference
The wardress beckoned to me and pointed towards another door which led to a small vestibule giving on to a sink and lavatory. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
It was with no sense of hero-worship that in reply to the wardress 'friendly question, "Which of the ladies do you wish to see?". From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
The wardress answered, "I am afraid you have injured the muscles and that is a very painful thing," and offered to put her to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
A wardress told one of us that the woman had killed her child and been put into the condemned cell after being sentenced to be hanged. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
After all being thoroughly searched, Madame being examined by a prison wardress, we were ushered into the dull official room of Monsieur. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance] Reference
During this operation, the largest wardress in Holloway sat astride my knees, holding my shoulders down to keep me from bending forward. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
My Selection begins with fragments of the Saliar hymns, and ends with the invocation of Phocas to Clio, reverend wardress of Antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Preface] Reference
The wardress had meals brought to her, and there would be short snatches of whispered conversation with the wardress who brought them in. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
I covered my face in the bedclothes, but in spite of this precaution the wardress heard me and before long she came and stood by my side. From Wordnik.com. [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference
One afternoon, while everything was still, the wardress heard her cry out suddenly and alarmingly, and with great and unmistakable passion. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
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