portresses

This is caused by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap.

Les Miserables

Barthelemy – Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent.

Les Miserables

This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a smile! on the three portresses.

Les Miserables

Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.

Les Miserables

“Who would ever have said it?” she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, “a young man like that, who had the air of a girl!”

Les Miserables

The cat, a magnificently long-furred, fluffy animal, the envy of all portresses, presided there like the mistress of the house, grave and sedate, and without anxieties.

A Daughter of Eve

And like all the portresses of elfland she added: “You are expected.”

Death of a Peer

They had inquired of the grocery-man at the corner where she often rested -- of the portresses of several schools where she sometimes peddled her candy at recess-time, and at the bakery where she occasionally bought a loaf of yesterday's bread.

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales

This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a smile! on the three portresses.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis

Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis