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  • In her riveting memoir, whose final chapters speak of her new life in France, she describes, with awe and discomfort, the finely-dressed women of Metz and their opulent life style, including for a short time her own, with its servants, maids, laborers and running footmen.

    France, Early Modern. 2009

  • As he was walking home along the Nevski, he could not help noticing a well-shaped and aggressively finely-dressed woman, who was quietly walking in front of him along the broad asphalt pavement.

    Resurrection 2003

  • A fat and finely-dressed gentleman — probably the architect — stood by the scaffolding, pointing upward and explaining something to a contractor, a peasant from the Vladimir Government, who was respectfully listening to him.

    Resurrection 2003

  • Indeed most of the slave women have no higher aspiration than that of becoming the finely-dressed mistress of some white man.

    Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

  • However, he took no notice of them at all, but merely slumped down in his chair, only waking up a bit when Mr Marvel came on to do his conjuring, with a very handsome, finely-dressed Barney as assistant.

    The Rubadub Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

  • "O yes, dear godmother," replied Cinderella; and then, with a good deal of hesitation, she added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many finely-dressed people in these shabby clothes?"

    Little Cinderella Anonymous

  • His mother never staid in the nursery; she was always down in the drawing-room, talking to finely-dressed ladies; and, when his father came home from the store, he never played with his little boy, but went into the gentlemen's room, to smoke cigars.

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

  • Indeed, the greater portion of the colored women, in the days of slavery, had no greater aspiration than that of becoming the finely-dressed mistress of some white man.

    Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

  • Imagine the appearance of these saloons between two and five o'clock in the afternoon during the season, filled as they are with chattering and finely-dressed ladies, -- Parisiennes, Russians with their lazy accent,

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • Indeed, many of the slave-women have no higher aspiration than that of becoming the finely-dressed mistress of some white man.

    Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States William Wells Brown

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