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The standards of His Majesty's taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strai ...
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
What Soft--Cherubic Creatures--
These Gentlewomen are--
One would as soon assault a Plush--
Or violate a Star--
Ermined and minked and Persian-lambed,
Be-puffed (be-painted, too, alas!)
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Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you ...
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitio ...
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her is a liberal education.
In Hydaspia, by Howzen,
Lived a lady, Lady Lowzen,
For whom what is was other things.
Give us that grand word "woman" once again,
And let's have done with "lady"; one's a term
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