protectresses

Here are hundreds of miniature paintings, carved buxom goddesses and temple protectresses whose writhings in rock are a match for any Michelangelo.

City Walk: New Delhi John Krich 2010

It was necessary, therefore, to call in the aid of Wisdom to adjust the mighty difference, and to reconcile by an amicable union those two combatants that were, in God, the supreme protectresses of all equity and goodness.

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

“Henceforward I shall have two protectresses; those two women are great friends, no doubt, and this newcomer will doubtless interest herself in her friend’s cousin.

Paras. 400–499 1917

In September one block from our outrageous "levee," where one thousand and fifty ruined women are constantly at the service of ten thousands of vile men -- one block from these protectresses of good women and young girls, more than a thousand protectresses!

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade 1896

Miss Flaw, with incredible swiftness, flew along the line, plucked me by the coat-collar from between my paralysed protectresses, darted with me down the chapel and out into the dark, before anyone had time to say 'Jack Robinson'.

Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

She had heard in Miveruni what evil reports the Masai gave of the Wa-Kikuyu, and she took the first opportunity of assuring her protectresses that the case was not nearly so bad as it was made to appear.

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

_ And if her accounts with her lodger did get hopelessly into arrear; and if she was annoyed by seeing him go out in fine clothes to sup at the Mitre; and if, at length, her patience gave way, and she determined to have her rights in one way or another, she was no worse than landladies -- who are only human beings, and not divinely appointed protectresses of genius -- ordinarily are.

Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869

I show you, [136] typically represented as the protectresses of nations, the Argive,

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

I show you, [38] typically represented as the protectresses of nations, the Argive, Cretan, and Lacinian Hera, the Messenian Demeter, the Athena of Corinth, the Artemis of Syracuse; the fountain Arethusa of Syracuse, and the Siren Ligeia of Terina.

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

How pleasant will be the sound of thy rejoicing, when it finds an echo in the heart of thy kind protectresses.

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge Frances Harriet 1838