Dowager

(noun.) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband.

编辑:梅森

• I give her credit for promoting his going dutifully down to Bath, to fetch his mother; but how will she and the dowager agree in one house? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The young lady thus claimed as the dowager's special property, reiterated her question with an explanation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• My dear Bantam,' said the Dowager Lady Snuphanuph coaxingly, 'find us some nice creature to make up this table; there's a good soul. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• His name was only mentioned with groans in the dowager's circle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Now the dowager's dead I want some one. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And for the first time in her life the Dowager Countess of Southdown was made amusing. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was a feminine hatchment, and indeed a few years back had served as a funeral compliment to Sir Pitt's old mother, the late dowager Lady Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The Dowager for a moment gave him an angry look; but tossed it off with her head and her fan, and pursued the tenor of her way in her former manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• My dear Celia, said the Dowager, James's title is worth far more than any new earldom. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not if she marries again before the end of it, said Mrs. Cadwallader, who had some pleasure in startling her good friend the Dowager. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And to see the old dowager making her recline on a couch, and 'my son John' prohibiting excitement, etcetera--faugh! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• No, to be sure not, said the Dowager Lady Chettam, with stately emphasis. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One Dowager, SHE calls it lip-salve. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I cannot possibly countenance any such inconsistent proceeding, chimed in the Dowager Ingram. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That's the Dowager Lady Snuphanuph. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mesdames (to the dowagers), you will take cold to a dead certainty, if you stay in this chill gallery any longer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The dowagers Ingram and Lynn sought solace in a quiet game at cards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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