mam'zelle

Still, mam'zelle, you were a bright smile of sunshine on a very bad day.

de Paris à Londres 2005

Every last item of Suzette's clothing from undershift to leggings and shoes had first belonged to her mam'zelle.

Excerpt: Cane River by Lalita Tademy 2001

"How do you find mam'zelle, doctor?" were his first eager words.

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

When I am out alone in my boat, I shall think of it, and in the long winter nights by the fire, when there is no little mam'zelle to come and talk to me, I shall say to myself, 'She loves you very dearly.'

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

No, thanks to Tardif's quiet tongue, and Mother Renouf's assiduous attendance upon mam'zelle, my sojourn in the island had been kept a secret; now that was at an end.

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

Well, there stood mam'zelle, pale and trembling, with the tears ready to fall in her eyes; just such a soft, poor, tender soul as my little wife used to be.

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

Believe me, I will protect mam'zelle, or I should say madame, at the loss of my life.

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

Is there any person in yonder house who frightens you, my poor little mam'zelle?

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

"Dear mam'zelle," he added, "if you only think of me as your friend, that is enough."

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

"You owe me, nothing, mam'zelle," he said, dropping my hand, and carrying the curé's high-backed chair to the open window, for me to sit in it, and have all the freshness there was in the air.

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871