How To Use duenna In A Sentence
- Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
- duenna" would be filled if she attempted to "look after" a bevy of typical American girls, with their independent -- yet confused -- ideas of social requirements in the matter of chaperonage. Etiquette
- Like a duenna snapping open her fan – the car snapped open a pair of elegant wings and soared off into Adventure. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again
- Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don Don Quixote
- When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
- The Duenna, seeing DQ, is so terrified she screams. Rambling « So Many Books
- As the first steps towards the execution of this honest scheme, he had subjected Aurelia to the superintendency and direction of an old duenna, who had been formerly the procuress of his pleasures; and hired a new set of servants, who were given to understand, at their first admission, that the young lady was disordered in her brain. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
- It happened by a rare chance that some of my fellows were on the point of setting out for the mainland, -- and he knew that he could safely entrust you to Mrs. Morfit's duennaship, he said. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
- He planted his watchful mo - ther as a kind of duenna over her, when - ever he rode out to pay his complin: ients tQ the lord of Gravenegg, whofe vaffal he was. Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford].
- Smith was in many respects an absurd figure, but he created a great romantic legend by falling in love with a 14-year-old Spanish girl named Juana, whose duenna threw herself and her young charge on the Rifle Brigade's mercy amid the ruins of sacked Badajoz in 1812. Five Best War Memoirs
