duchessness

Example Sentences

• "It would make little difference to most of us now whether the Duchess of Portland or her stand-in had posed—except that both might be lacking in any abstract quality of ‘Duchessnesss’."
• "Take tippy-top care of your Duchessness. / Hugs, / Bess / […] / > With Love & Hugs, / > Rosie S. / > Demented Duchess"
• "If she had a brother she wouldn't be a duchess, she'd just be a . / […] pTerry has asserted her accepted duchessness (e.g. her dealings with the Gaiters in Hogfather, for one) so I think that's definite in any case."
• "By the time Sam swung the camera around to face me, I was pouring tea like I had been born to it. I even had enough wits about me to say, with much duchessness, “Thank you, Palmer, that will be all. I will ring if I need you.” / “As you like, Your Grace. I shall go attend to the many and varied duties which Your Graces have bestowed upon me.”"
• "With every button she pushed the Machine would sing: / bing / a dabbing dose of duchessness / a pretty princess knows / ring / can manner beauty beautifully / as growing sweetly show / zing / and brilliant the sight will be / when seeing does expose / fling / the graceful magnificents of love / for friendship’s vastness grows / wing / a stable set will stability make strong / the ties that bind to loving friends along."
• "Does she get to keep the Duchessness, what with being divorced? Hmmmm, it appears that she does."