proprietresses

I am lucky to have talented friends and, ahem, proprietresses of blogs, ahem and live in a city with so many cupcake options- I especially love that Sugar Sweet Sunshine is open so early- it's a great surprise as I am not a morning person.

Cupcake blog roommate interview 2005

This morning there was a confusing conversation at a quarter to ten about sleep and paying and nights and various whoknowswhats with one of the mean ugly czech proprietresses.

stochastic Diary Entry stochastic 2000

"Jesus the Savior loves you, and sent me to tell you so"; for not always, by any means, would the proprietors or proprietresses permit us to converse with their victims.

Fifteen Years with the Outcast

Veemie, sole proprietresses of this male machine, to make him properly masculine!

Where the Souls of Men are Calling Credo Fitch Harris 1915

“Jesus the Savior loves you, and sent me to tell you so”; for not always, by any means, would the proprietors or proprietresses permit us to converse with their victims.

Fifteen Years With The Outcast Mother 1912

They're proprietresses just as much as their husbands are proprietors.

The Gibson Upright Booth Tarkington 1907

And the girl nodded politely, as café proprietresses should, and murmured, blank as the walls in the Antwerp streets: "Bon jour, monsieur!"

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

Even to this day a few of the former proprietresses who have remained alive and have reached the limit of decrepitude, and quondam housekeepers, fat and hoarse, like pug-dogs grown old, recall this common destruction with sorrow, horror, and stolid perplexity.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

The proprietresses were given only a week's time for the settlement of matters in connection with their property.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

All the shady world -- the proprietresses of brothels, cocottes solitaires, go-betweens, madams of houses of assignation, souteneurs, touring actresses and chorus girls -- was as familiar to him as the starry sky to an astronomer.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904