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Only sixty years ago the English spinster or spectacled lady's-companion, as she crossed over from the mouth of the Tagus to the mouth of the Tiber, or from Marseilles to Naples, looked out for capture by "the Algerines" as quite a reasonable eventuality.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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The menacing masked man who tempts a demure lady's-companion is actually the long-lost heir to a duke.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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